Portlaoise most popular place name search in Laois

Portlaoise most popular place name search in Laois

Visitors to www.logainm.ie can now listen to sound files that have been added to 219 placenames in County Laois. Sound files in Irish and English have been added to the names of the baronies, civil parishes and electoral districts as well as the names of some physical features. Sound files are already available for placenames in the following counties Waterford, Galway, Louth, Donegal, Kerry, Tipperary, Dublin, Mayo, Limerick, Leitrim, Meath, Kilkenny, Wicklow, Cork, Roscommon, Wexford, Monaghan, Clare, Carlow, Sligo, Longford, Westmeath, Kildare and Offaly. The sound recordings for the placenames  in County Laois were voiced by Caoimhín Ó Néill from Trumra, Mountrath, Co. Laois.

www.logainm.ie is a public website which provides the official Irish-language names of almost 100,000 towns, streets and post offices throughout the country. The placenames website has attracted over 9.48 million hits since its official launch on 1st October 2008. Placenames are most commonly searched for by their English version. The most searched placename so far is Dublin (8,214 searches), Cork is in second place (5,218), Galway in third (4,651) and Tipperary comes fourth (4,358). The most frequently searched placenames in Co. Laois so far are Portlaoise (2,172 searches), followed by Portarlington (1,267), Stradbally (1,296) and Durrow (850).