List of longest placenames in Ireland

The spellings and locations given in the table are those on the Ordnance Survey's current and historic maps.{{cite web |url=http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,485174,710176,7 |title=Small-scale map of Ceathrar Álainn site |work=Mapviewer |publisher=Ordnance Survey of Ireland |access-date=23 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529055024/http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,485174,710176,7 |archive-date=29 May 2010 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,487325,710351,8 |title=Small-scale map of Monasterconnaughtagh site |work=Mapviewer |publisher=Ordnance Survey of Ireland |access-date=3 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529055024/http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx#V1,487325,710351,8 |archive-date=29 May 2010 |url-status=dead }} Three of the top names are at the ruins on Inishmore of the church dedicated of the Four Comely Saints ({{lang|ga|an Ceathrar Álainn}}).

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John O'Donovan recommended "Illaunloughmorenavreaghoge" (26 letters) as the name of an island in "Loughnavreeghougue" in Clynagh townland, Killannin parish, Moycullen barony, County Galway. He noted "Illaunloughmorenavreeghougue" (28 letters) as the local spelling.{{cite web|url=http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/asp/fullresult.asp?id=45130|title=Illaunloughmorenavreaghoge|work=O'Donovan's Field Name Books|publisher=Galway County Library|access-date=25 November 2013}} However, the Ordnance Survey went with "Lough Morenavreaghoge" for the lake, and left the island unnamed,{{cite web|url=http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,494730,727915,7,9|title=25-inch map centred on Lough Morenavreaghoge|work=Mapviewer|publisher=Ordnance Survey Ireland|access-date=25 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,494730,727915,7,9|archive-date=29 August 2012|url-status=dead}} while the Irish Placenames Database gives the name "Illaunmore" for an island in Clynagh.{{cite web|url=http://logainm.ie/1398092.aspx|title=Illaunmore|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=25 November 2013}}

Two lakes called "Loughs Nahaskanabaunia" on the Ordnance Survey map correspond to the entry "Loughsnahaskanabaunia" (21 letters) in the Placenames Database.{{cite web|url=http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,515719,729723,11,7|title=6-inch map centred on Loughs Nahaskanabaunia|date=30 April 1841|work=Mapviewer|no-pp=y|page=Galway Sheet GY080|access-date=14 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,515719,729723,11,7|archive-date=29 August 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.logainm.ie/en/1371682|title=Loch na Sceiche Báine/Loughsnahaskanabaunia|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=14 August 2015}} The townland of Brackagh Slieve Gallion{{cite web|url=http://www.placenamesni.org/resultsdetail.phtml?entry=4061|title=Townland of Brackagh Slieve Gallion|work=Placenames NI|access-date=28 September 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331202846/http://www.placenamesni.org/resultsdetail.phtml?entry=4061|archive-date=31 March 2012}} in County Londonderry has sometimes been written as one 21-letter word, Brackaghslievegallion,{{cite book|last=Portlock|first=Joseph Ellison|author2=Ordnance Survey of Ireland |title=Report on the geology of the county of Londonderry, and of parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qw68AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA736|access-date=28 September 2010|year=1843|publisher=Andrew Milliken|location=Dublin|page=736}} or similar. Similarly, Lisbellanagroagh More in County Antrim has been written Lisbellanagroaghmore (20 letters).{{cite book |series=Command papers |volume=26 |issue=1 |year=1849 |page=52 |url=http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/12738/eppi_pages/322462 |title=Boundaries of Poor Law Unions and electoral divisions in Ireland: second report |access-date=31 October 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://logainm.ie/61796.aspx|title=Lisbellanagroagh More |work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=31 October 2013}}

An 1829 calendar of Stuart patent rolls in the Irish Chancery includes Knockatoodreknocknynuyshaneboye (31 letters) and Aghannyquillaknockacarnoc (25 letters) from 1611 as subdenominations within "Gortnemureknock" (now Gortinure and Knocks{{cite web |title=Gortinure, County Fermanagh |url=http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=19715 |website=Place Names NI |access-date=21 April 2020}}; {{cite web |title=Knocks, County Fermanagh |url=http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=13625 |website=Place Names NI |access-date=21 April 2020}}) County Fermanagh;Commissioners of Public Records in Ireland, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WUepqE-K4PAC&pg=RA3-PA19 Fermanagh 8 Jas. I]; {{cite book |title=Calendar of the Patent Rolls of the Chancery of Ireland |date=1800 |publisher=A. Thom |location=Dublin |page=167 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XD5JAAAAcAAJ&q=BOGAS%20BRANTHAM&pg=PA167 |access-date=21 April 2020 |language=en |chapter=8 James I V}} Grangeballaghmarramacquoid (26 letters) in Armagh in 1616;Commissioners of Public Records in Ireland, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WUepqE-K4PAC&pg=PR92 Armagh 4 Jac. I] and Ballylirstrillyvickenratty (26 letters) for Tullymacarath, County Down in 1609.{{cite web|url=http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=17578|title=Tullymacarath, County Down|work=PlacenamesNI|publisher=placenamesni|access-date=11 May 2016}} The spelling Ballemickegillemorreyietragh (28 letters; later "Ballymackilmurry etra" in the townland of Ballymackilmurry) is recorded in a 1609 inquisition into the churchlands of County Armagh made in preparation for the Plantation of Ulster.{{cite journal |last=Glancy |first=Michael |year=1954 |title=The Church-Lands of Co. Armagh: Text of the Inquisition of 1609 with Introduction and Notes |journal=Seanchas Ardmhacha |publisher=Armagh Diocesan Historical Society |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=67–100: 77 |doi=10.2307/29740571 |jstor=29740571}}{{cite web|url=http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=17957|title=Ballymackilmurry, County Armagh|work=Place Names NI|publisher=Northern Ireland Place-name Project|access-date=10 May 2016}} Salters Grange, County Armagh is called Grangeballaghmarramacquoid (26 letters) in inquisitions of 1557 and 1614.{{cite web|url=http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=10302|title=Salters Grange, County Armagh|work=Place Names NI|publisher=Northern Ireland Place-name Project|access-date=11 May 2016}} The 1654 Civil Survey of County Tipperary records Glayshlackeenetanballyuore (26 letters) as the name of a "small brooke" forming part of the boundary of Oughterleague parish by the townland of Demone;{{cite book |series=The Civil Survey A.D. 1654–56 |volume=II |title=Tipperary: western and northern baronies with the return of crown and church lands for the whole county |first=Robert C. |last=Simington |year=1934 |publisher=Irish Manuscripts Commission |url=http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/The%20Civil%20Survey%201654%20Vol%20II%20Co%20Tipperary/ |access-date=13 January 2015 |page=90 |chapter=Part of the Parish of Oughterleage}} Aghknockanecurryheeneliegh (26 letters) a ford on the boundary of Moyne parish in Tipperary;{{cite book |series=The Civil Survey A.D. 1654–56 |volume=I |title=Tipperary: Eastern and southern baronies |first=Robert C. |url=http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/The%20CIvil%20Survey%201654%20Vol.%20I.%20Co.%20Tipperary/ |last=Simington |year=1931 |publisher=Irish Manuscripts Commission |page=44 }} and Barrecoroughbollinbraykon (25 letters) a "littel stream" on the border of Gorey barony.{{cite book |first=Robert C. |last=Simington |title=County of Wexford |series=The Civil Survey A.D. 1654–56 |volume=IX |date=1953 |publisher=Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission |page=3 |url=http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/The%20Civil%20Survey%201654%20Co%20Wexford%20Volume%20IX/ |language=en}} A place named Caherhewlissingaberrighe (24 letters) in Galway or Roscommon is mentioned in a 1578 fiant.{{cite book |author1=Deputy Keeper of Public Records in Ireland |title=Thirteenth report |date=12 March 1881 |series=Command papers |volume=C.2929 |chapter=Appendix IV |via=Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers On Ireland |chapter-url=http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/16875/page/450110 |page=89 No.3382 |access-date=30 August 2019}} An 1825 index of placenames in the decrees of innocence registered under the Act of Settlement 1662 includes Gortecoleighshraghmicknuckgenny (31 letters), Ballynygorenagheyannyneaghe (27 letters) and Laghirtydonellanknockane (24 letters).{{cite book |series=Parliamentary Papers |location=London |volume=HC 1825 XVI (122) 1 |title=Fourteenth and Fifteenth Annual Reports with Appendix |chapter=Appendix V (2): Index Locorum to the Inrolments of the Decrees of Innocents preserved in the Office of the Chief Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Dublin |date=13 June 1825 |author=Commissioners of Public Records in Ireland |pages=[https://archive.org/details/op1244157-1001/page/557 557], [https://archive.org/details/op1244157-1001/page/543 543], [https://archive.org/details/op1244157-1001/page/563 563] }}

The Placenames Database of Ireland includes an entry for "Lougheroaghballaghdown" (22 letters),{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/111235|title=Lougheroaghballaghdown|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=1 June 2017}} apparently a misspelt duplicate of "Lough Croaghballaghdown".{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/1396383|title=Lough Croaghballaghdown|work=Placenames Database of Ireland|access-date=1 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,563204,890529,5,1|title=DiscoverySeries No.10 map centred on Lough Croaghballaghdown|work=Mapviewer|publisher=Ordnance SurveyIreland|access-date=14 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829114800/http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,563204,890529,5,1|archive-date=29 August 2012|url-status=dead}} An 1824 return of townlands in Mayo includes one of 48 acres in the parish of "Torlogh" (now Turlough), barony of Carra, named "Knockballymackellygirrenane [27 letters] Tully".{{cite book

|author1=Select Committee on the Survey and Valuation of Ireland |last2=Baron Monteagle of Brandon |first2=Thomas Spring-Rice |author-link2=Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon |title=Report |date=21 June 1824 |publisher=HMSO |page=264 |chapter=Appendix H: County returns of Baronies, Parishes, and Townlands; No. 20: Mayo; Carra Barony; 10 Torlogh Parish |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/op1244052-1001/page/n263 |access-date=15 September 2019 |series=Parliamentary Papers |volume=HC 1824 viii (445) 79}} This is a mistranscription of "Knockballymackelly, Grenane, and Tully[quirke]", now the townland of Greenans.{{cite web |title=An Grianán/Greenans |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/35887 |website=Logainm.ie |access-date=15 September 2019 |page=Archival records |no-pp=y |language=en}}

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• Two Irish towns with 19-letter names:
• Newtownmountkennedy
• Castletownbere, sometimes called Castletownberehaven

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• {{cite book |title=Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Asservatarum Repertorium |date=1829 |publisher=Commissioners of Public Records in Ireland |volume=II: Ulster |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WUepqE-K4PAC |access-date=30 March 2020 |language=en }}
• {{cite web |title=Placenames Database of Ireland |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/ |website=Logainm.ie |publisher=Dublin City University |access-date=30 March 2020 |language=en}}
• {{cite web |title=Place Names NI |url=http://www.placenamesni.org/ |publisher=Northern Ireland Place-name Project |access-date=30 March 2020}}

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