New website gives definitive Irish place names Another useful tool for the genealogist searching for places in Ireland is now available. Minister for Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív on Wednesday 1 October, 2008 formally launched a new website which gives the official Irish names of some 100,000 towns, streets and villages. Work is continuing on the website, www.logainm.ie. It is being carried out by Fiontar, the Irish teaching and research unit of Dublin City University, on behalf of the Placenames Branch of the Department of Gaeltacht Affairs. When you open the site it is in Irish. Clicking on the link in the upper right corner will display it in English. It is intuitive in that if you type in a name that is misspelled in either language it will display close approximations.