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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.
Codes A41 – K78 later added under the Eircode system. Dublin postal districts have been used by Ireland 's postal service, known as An Post , to sort mail in Dublin . The system is similar to that used in cities in Europe and North America until they adopted national postal code systems in the 1960s and 1970s.
It is the source of all addresses in the Eircode ECAD database. It is also used by Google Maps in Ireland to identify and search for building names on mapping. [75] For example, one of the entries in its sample database [76] is Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, building ID 10003105 (at ITM 648555.822, 698833.088).
The BT postcode area, also known as the Belfast postcode area, [2] covers all of Northern Ireland and was the last part of the United Kingdom to be coded, between 1970 and 1974. [citation needed] This area is a group of 82 postcode districts in Northern Ireland, within 44 post towns and around 47,227 live postcodes.
In general, neither Ireland nor Great Britain uses latitude or longitude in describing internal geographic locations. Instead grid reference systems are used for mapping.. The national grid referencing system was devised by the Ordnance Survey, and is heavily used in their survey data, and in maps (whether published by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland or ...
Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) is the geographic coordinate system for Ireland. It was implemented jointly by the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) in 2001. The name is derived from the Transverse Mercator projection it uses and the fact that it is optimised for the island of Ireland.
Dublin 2, also rendered as D2 [1] [2] and D02, is a historic postal district on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. In the 1960s, this central district became a focus for office development. [3] More recently, it became a focus for urban residential development. [4] The district saw some of the heaviest fighting during Ireland's Easter Rising. [5]
Various locations have claimed in the past to be the geographical centre of Ireland using various methodologies (though sometimes without any updated references or supporting academic methodology). OSI have determined that the most appropriate methodology to use currently is the one published in February 2022 and which determined the location ...