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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]
This followed the example of other cities, including London, first subdivided into ten districts in 1857, [5] and Liverpool, the first city in Britain or Ireland to have postcodes, from 1864. The letter "D" was assigned to designate Dublin [ 6 ] and was retained by the new Irish government.
In Ireland, 35% of premises (over 600,000) have non-unique addresses due to an absence of house numbers or names. [2] Before the introduction of a national postcode system (Eircode) in 2015, this required postal workers to remember which family names corresponded to which house in smaller towns, and many townlands.
Tallow (/ ˈ t æ l. oʊ /; Irish: Tulach an Iarainn, meaning 'hillock of the iron' [3]) is a town, civil parish and townland in County Waterford, Ireland.Tallow is in the province of Munster near the border between County Cork and County Waterford and situated on a small hill just south of the River Bride.
On 17 February 1978, a British Army Gazelle helicopter, went down near Jonesborough after being fired at by a Provisional IRA unit from the South Armagh Brigade. The IRA unit was involved in a gun battle with a Green Jackets ' observation post deployed in the area, and the helicopter was sent in to support the ground troops.
Richhill is a large village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It lies between Armagh and Portadown. It had a population of 2,738 people in the 2021 Census. [2] Originally named Legacorry, it takes its name from Edward Richardson, who built the manor house around which the village grew.
Katesbridge is a small hamlet in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Shannaghan, [1] just off the main route from Castlewellan to Banbridge, and 4.3 miles (7 km) north of Rathfriland. The River Bann flows by the hamlet. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 135 people. It lies within the Banbridge District.
The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, [1] were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. [2] The purpose of the postal county – as opposed to any other kind of county – was to aid the sorting of mail by differentiating between similar post towns.