List of Eircode routing areas in Ireland

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A map of Ireland's routing key areas Eircode Routing Keys.svg
A map of Ireland's routing key areas

The list of Eircode routing key areas in Ireland is a tabulation of the routing key areas used by An Post and other mail delivery services for the purposes of directing mail within Ireland. A routing key area "defines a principal post town" [1] according to An Post. There are currently 139 routing key areas in the country. This table does not include the second part of Ireland's seven-character Eircodes, known as the "unique identifier". These are unique to individual addresses and are not street-level identifiers, as is the case in other countries. There are currently 2.2 million of these codes. [2]

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Scope

Although Ireland's routing key areas take a similar format to postcode areas in the United Kingdom (including Northern Ireland), they are not intended as a mnemonic for a county or city name, except for those used in the historic Dublin postal districts. Several towns and townlands can share the same routing key. [3] A routing key coupled with a unique identifier looks like this:

EIRCODE [4]
Routing keyUnique identifier
D6WPV38

This corresponds to the unique address of

 Terenure Post Office 128 Terenure Road  Dublin 6 West D6W PV38

Eircode routing areas

Eircode routing areas of County Dublin. These include Dublin's historic postal districts EircodeDublin.svg
Eircode routing areas of County Dublin. These include Dublin's historic postal districts
Post towns and Eircode routing areas [5]
Routing keyPost townPost county
A92 Ardee Louth
Y14 Arklow Wicklow
A84 Ashbourne Meath
H65 Athenry Galway
N37 Athlone Westmeath
R14 Athy Kildare
K32 Balbriggan Dublin
F26 Ballina Mayo
H53 Ballinasloe Galway
P31 Ballincollig Cork
F31 Ballinrobe Mayo
A75 Ballybay Monaghan
A41 Ballyboughal Dublin
F35 Ballyhaunis Mayo
F56 Ballymote Sligo
P72 Bandon Cork
P75 Bantry Cork
H14 Belturbet Cavan
R42 Birr Offaly
A94 Blackrock Dublin
A94 Booterstown Dublin
F52 Boyle Roscommon
A98 Bray Wicklow
V23 Caherciveen Kerry
E21 Cahir Tipperary
R93 Carlow Carlow
A81 Carrickmacross Monaghan
N41 Carrick-on-Shannon Leitrim
E32 Carrick-on-Suir Tipperary
P43 Carrigaline Cork
E25 Cashel Tipperary
F23 Castlebar Mayo
A75 Castleblaney Monaghan
F45 Castlerea Roscommon
H12 Cavan Cavan
P56 Charleville Cork
F12 Claremorris Mayo
H71 Clifden Galway
P85 Clonakilty Cork
H23 Clones Monaghan
E91 Clonmel Tipperary
P24 Cobh Cork
H16 Cootehill Cavan
T12 Cork (centre and southside), Passage West, Cork Airport Cork
T23 Cork (northside), Blarney Cork
P14 Crookstown Cork
P32 Donoughmore Cork
P47 Dunmanway Cork
T56 Watergrasshill Cork
T34 Whitechurch Cork
R56 Curragh Camp Kildare
A63 Delgany Wicklow
F94 Donegal Donegal
A92 Drogheda Louth
D01 Dublin 1 Dublin
D02 Dublin 2 Dublin
D03 Dublin 3 Dublin
D04 Dublin 4 Dublin
D05 Dublin 5 Dublin
D06 Dublin 6 Dublin
D6W Dublin 6W Dublin
D07 Dublin 7 Dublin
D08 Dublin 8 Dublin
D09 Dublin 9 Dublin
D10 Dublin 10 Dublin
D11 Dublin 11 Dublin
D12 Dublin 12 Dublin
D13 Dublin 13 Dublin
D14 Dublin 14 Dublin
D15 Dublin 15 Dublin
D16 Dublin 16 Dublin
D17 Dublin 17 Dublin
D18 Dublin 18 Dublin
D20 Dublin 20 Dublin
D22 Dublin 22 Dublin
D24 Dublin 24 Dublin
A86 Dunboyne Meath
A91 Dundalk Louth
X35 Dungarvan Waterford
A85 Dunshaughlin Meath
R45 Edenderry Meath
A83 Enfield Meath
V95 Ennis Clare
Y21 Enniscorthy Wexford
P61 Fermoy Cork
H91 Galway Galway
A42 Garristown Dublin
A96 Glenageary Dublin
Y25 Gorey Wexford
A63 Greystones Wicklow
A82 Kells Meath
A63 Kilcoole Wicklow
R51 Kildare Kildare
R95 Kilkenny Kilkenny
V93 Killarney Kerry
X42 Kilmacthomas Waterford
V35 Kilmallock Limerick
V15 Kilrush Clare
A82 Kingscourt Cavan
P17 Kinsale Cork
A92 Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington Meath
F92 Letterkenny Donegal
F93 Lifford Donegal
V94 Limerick Limerick
V31 Listowel Kerry
T45 Little Island Cork
N39 Longford Longford
H62 Loughrea Galway
K78 Lucan Dublin
K45 Lusk Dublin
P12 Macroom Cork
K36 Malahide Dublin
P51 Mallow Cork
W23 Maynooth Kildare
P25 Midleton Cork
P67 Mitchelstown Cork
H18 Monaghan Monaghan
W34 Monasterevin Kildare
A94 Monkstown Dublin
R21 Muine Bheag Carlow
N91 Mullingar Westmeath
W91 Naas Kildare
C15 Navan Meath
E45 Nenagh Tipperary
Y34 New Ross Wexford
W12 Newbridge Kildare
A63 Newcastle Wicklow
V42 Newcastle West Limerick
A63 Newtownmountkennedy Wicklow
A45 Oldtown Dublin
R32 Portlaoise Laois
A67 Rathnew Wicklow
A85 Ratoath Meath
F42 Roscommon Roscommon
E53 Roscrea Tipperary
K56 Rush Dublin
V14 Shannon Clare
K34 Skerries Dublin
P81 Skibbereen Cork
F91 Sligo Sligo
A83 Summerhill Meath
K67 Swords and Dublin Airport Dublin
E41 Thurles Tipperary
E34 Tipperary Tipperary
V92 Tralee Kerry
H54 Tuam Galway
R35 Tullamore Offaly
A82 Virginia Cavan
X91 Waterford Waterford
F28 Westport Mayo
Y35 Wexford Wexford
A67 Wicklow Wicklow
P36 Youghal Cork

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