Alphabetical List of Irish Counties

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1. A former Belgian housemate of mine used to attempt to remember all the counties and recite the list in that order. Terribly exciting nation, the Belgians…

2. Some of those are in the UK?

3. Chris
   It’s a list of the 32 counties not the 26
   Michele

4. I’m pretty sure that Fingal became a county about 10 years ago. Anytime I’m heading out to Swords there are ‘welcome to County Fingal’ signs as you approach.

5. @eden: so is dun laoghaire/rathdown – I think they were trying to make Ireland a 32 county nation by stealth…

6. According to the Fingal website:
   “It came into being on the 1st. January, 1994 following the abolition of the former Dublin County Council and the establishment of 3 new authorities to replace it.”

7. We’ll have to wait and see… if the Dubs manage to win the All-Ireland there will be a great outcry to have the 3 separate “counties” of Dublin fielding their own team.
   “Fingal” and “Dun Laoighaire/Rathdown” seem imaginative enough, but what creative genius decided to call the other area “South County Dublin”?

8. Similarly then, the list should include “North Tipperary” and “South Tipperary” rather than just “Tipperary” – at least according to
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland#Republic_of_Ireland

9. Those “sub-counties” are used for government adminstrative purposes, local authorities, electoral boundaries and defining council areas. However there are traditionally 32 counties. You don’t post mail out to ‘North Tipperary’ – its just ‘Tipperary’ – and before someone says you do post mail to Dun Laoighaire it’s because it’s a townland (of county Dublin)!

10. Peter – exactly

11. So, I am imagining it Peter, when I notice friends of my family have post addressed to them as “Ballingarry, North Tipperary”; sometimes addressed as “Ballingarry, Tipperary NR [North Riding]” – which is precisely what they do considering there is also a Ballingarry in South Tipperary close to the Kilkenny border.
    You are correct though, Michele’s list is of the traditional 32 counties of Ireland.

12. Ken > Fair enough. There’s an exception to every rule!
    However that’s just because An Post are likely to send it to the wrong place and not because we talk about ‘Tipperary North Riding’ in every day conversation.

13. I find it amusing that one of the most “throw away” posts I’ve made this year gets over a dozen comments 🙂

14. But you left out County Ring. Podge and Rodge are somewhere in there (and may they stay there)

15. If it’s of any use; here’s a zip of the counties of Ireland for Zen Cart – it contains two files: one listing the 26 counties of the Republic. The other file contains a list of all 32 counties.
    It may ‘just work’ with OS Commerce too.
    http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_55&products_id=397

16. Ken
    Handy 🙂
    I put the list together for this:
    http://www.movieforums.eu/classifiedadverts/
    But the format that uses is slightly different
    Michele

17. … ehh… Michele … thanks for the list … it was exactly what I was looking for. 🙂

18. Cheers for this Michele, I’ve visited this post about 20 times in the past few years. This time I’m using the list to help build my fashion directory on clothes.ie

    Le gach dea-ghuí,

    peadar

19. Thank you!!

20. I have used this list so many times, it is very handy – thank you!

21. Ridiculously useful, I keep coming back to this.

    Also handy to have them in as options for a form and as a comma delimited list(extra gaps after commas to fit them here). Maybe add to file?

    Antrim
    Armagh
    Carlow
    Cavan
    Clare
    Cork
    Derry
    Donegal
    Down
    Dublin
    Fermanagh
    Galway
    Kerry
    Kildare
    Kilkenny
    Laois
    Leitrim
    Limerick
    Longford
    Louth
    Mayo
    Meath
    Monaghan
    Offaly
    Roscommon
    Sligo
    Tipperary
    Tyrone
    Waterford
    Westmeath
    Wexford
    Wicklow

    Antrim, Armagh, Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Galway, Kerry, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary, Tyrone, Waterford, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow

22. I could upload an alternative file I guess .. I’ll have to see what’s in the one that’s there – bearing in mind that I shoved it up there years ago

23. I know, I’ve been returning to it for years 🙂

    You can remove the silly list of counties in my post – I had put them in as options, but that was cleaned up.

24. Katherine

    I got your email with the non-cleaned up version and I’ll upload it shortly 🙂

    Thanks

    Michele

25. Thanks a million for uploading the useful lists! Using them for a database assignment – saves me keying them in.

26. Thanks for that, really helpful, saved some time.

27. Thanks for that list Michele – saved me a bit of hassle.

28. Thank you so much 😀

29. Thanks for this. Saved me a bit of typing (and second-guessing!)

30. Thanks buddy! Same as above 😉

31. Just found this little gem today – thank you! 🙂

32. Lol I used this for my homework

33. Saved me a few minutes thinking and typing – thanks!

34. Thank you… Collecting all the ROI licence plate abbreviations (in which, I note (following discussion above), it divides Tipperary in two…):

    Carlow – CW
    Cavan – CN
    Clare – CE
    Cork – C
    Donegal – DL
    Dublin – D
    Galway – G
    Kerry – KY
    Kildare – KE
    Kilkenny – KK
    Laois – LS
    Leitrim – LM
    Limerick – L or LK
    Longford – LD
    Louth – LH
    Mayo – MO
    Meath – MH
    Monaghan – MN
    Offaly – OY
    Roscommon – RN
    Sligo – SO
    Tipperary North – TN
    Tipperary South – TS
    Waterford – W or WD
    Westmeath – WH
    Wexford – WX
    Wicklow – WW

35. nearly 10 years later – just copied and pasted that – cheers Michele!

36. Keith
    Glad to see people are still finding it useful 🙂
    Michele

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