Ireland address generator
Random Ireland addresses for software testing, using 139 real localities and laid out the way Ireland writes them. The dataset gives each locality’s postcode prefix; the remaining characters are synthetic.
- A Dataset-matched
- 139 cities
- 26 counties
- Eircode: prefix from data
Options
120 Maple Road Flat 40F Ballinrobe Co. Mayo F31 7PE2 Ireland
- City, county and Eircode prefix: one GeoNames record
- Street name, number and unit: synthetic
Synthetic test data: not a verified or deliverable address.
- Street
- 120 Maple Road
- Unit
- Flat 40F
- City
- Ballinrobe
- County
- Co. Mayo
- Eircode
- F31 7PE2 Prefix from datasetThe first part comes from the dataset record for this locality. The rest is synthetic and will not match a property.
- Country
- Ireland (IE)
- Coordinates
- 53.633, -9.233 Approximate centre of the locality, not the building
How addresses are written in Ireland
Layout from Google’s address metadata (libaddressinput), the format data Chrome and Android use for address forms.
[Recipient name]
[Organisation]
[Street address]
[Townland]
[City]
[County]
[Eircode]
- Required fields
- Street address and city
- Eircode
- Examples:
A65 F4E2
Pattern:[\dA-Z]{3} ?[\dA-Z]{4} - Counties
- 26 in the dataset
- Script
- Latin
- Calling code
- +353
- Official lookup
- Postcode finder
About the data for Ireland
ADataset-matched. Each place comes with the postcode prefix recorded for it in the dataset. The rest of the code is synthetic.
- Localities
- 139 · GeoNames postal codes
- Postcodes
- The dataset gives each locality’s postcode prefix; the remaining characters are synthetic.
- Names
- en (language-level list)
- Streets
- Synthetic names built from common local street words. They are not taken from real maps.
- Eircodes have a routing key (first three characters, tied to an area) and a unique identifier. Only the routing key is dataset-backed here; the last four characters are synthetic and will not match a real property.
Sample Ireland addresses
Eight addresses generated with a fixed seed. The city, county are real; street names and numbers are not.
| Formatted address | Eircode |
|---|---|
| 94 West Gardens Flat 18 Dublin 9 Co. Dublin D09 X729 | D09 X729 |
| 225 St Mary's Crescent Charleville Co. Cork P56 AVY4 | P56 AVY4 |
| 1 North Lane Dublin 22 Co. Dublin D22 WADV | D22 WADV |
| 14 Mosciski View Flat 11 Limerick Co. Limerick V94 2010 | V94 2010 |
| 36 Windsor Rise Greystones Co. Wicklow A63 7FAV | A63 7FAV |
| 50 New Mews Rush Co. Dublin K56 NR9W | K56 NR9W |
| 38 Dach Close Flat 23 Curragh Co. Kildare R56 2PKT | R56 2PKT |
| 142 Zboncak Way Dublin 5 Co. Dublin D05 D15K | D05 D15K |
Counties of Ireland
Pick one in the generator above to keep every address inside it.
| County | Localities |
|---|---|
| Co. Carlow | 2 |
| Co. Cavan | 3 |
| Co. Clare | 3 |
| Co. Cork | 22 |
| Co. Donegal | 3 |
| Co. Dublin | 32 |
| Co. Galway | 6 |
| Co. Kerry | 4 |
| Co. Kildare | 8 |
| Co. Kilkenny | 1 |
| Co. Laois | 1 |
| Co. Leitrim | 1 |
| Co. Limerick | 3 |
| Co. Longford | 1 |
| Co. Louth | 2 |
| Co. Mayo | 6 |
| Co. Meath | 8 |
| Co. Monaghan | 4 |
| Co. Offaly | 3 |
| Co. Roscommon | 3 |
| Co. Sligo | 2 |
| Co. Tipperary | 8 |
| Co. Waterford | 3 |
| Co. Westmeath | 2 |
| Co. Wexford | 4 |
| Co. Wicklow | 4 |
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