"PaulD" <Paul@yahooooooo.com> wrote in message news:iWqMe.90166$G8.35812@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk... >>> Does anyone know how to find postal codes for Dundalk please? checked >>> Google but no luck. >>> I have found a Ferguson still living in Faughart where our >>> Ferguson's were married in 1858 maybe a descendant??? I have the >>> phone number and street address. We are going to Dundalk in >>> September and would like to write to this person before we go, just >>> to prepare him in case he is older. Thanks >>> Eve Ferguson > > The don't have postal codes in the Republic of Ireland, just street > address, town and county. We have postal codes in Dublin, though the area covered by each code is not as small as that in UK postcodes. There was a proposal recently to introduce more detailed codes, but the postal service said there was no need, and I suppose they would know. -- Trish Dublin, Ireland

The postal codes in Dublin are actually zones, which cover very large areas. There is nothing in the Republic of Ireland that is equivalent to a post code as understood in Canada or the UK for instance. I wouldn't believe for one moment what An Post (the Irish Post Office) has to say about this issue. They would have using the pony express if they could. The sooner that Ireland subscribes to postal codes the sooner post will arrive at its destination. Cheers, Steven Smyrl Dublin "Trish" <tee.lockers@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1124231874.a26bc5d80b82df368cde88f1bf676001@teranews... > > "PaulD" <Paul@yahooooooo.com> wrote in message > news:iWqMe.90166$G8.35812@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk... >>>> Does anyone know how to find postal codes for Dundalk please? checked >>>> Google but no luck. >>>> I have found a Ferguson still living in Faughart where our >>>> Ferguson's were married in 1858 maybe a descendant??? I have the >>>> phone number and street address. We are going to Dundalk in >>>> September and would like to write to this person before we go, just >>>> to prepare him in case he is older. Thanks >>>> Eve Ferguson >> >> The don't have postal codes in the Republic of Ireland, just street >> address, town and county. > > We have postal codes in Dublin, though the area covered by each code is > not as small as that in UK postcodes. There was a proposal recently to > introduce more detailed codes, but the postal service said there was no > need, and I suppose they would know. > > -- > Trish > Dublin, Ireland > >

Steven Smyrl <smyrl@indigo.ie> wrote: : The postal codes in Dublin are actually zones, which cover very large areas. : There is nothing in the Republic of Ireland that is equivalent to a post : code as understood in Canada or the UK for instance. I wouldn't believe for : one moment what An Post (the Irish Post Office) has to say about this issue. : They would have using the pony express if they could. The sooner that : Ireland subscribes to postal codes the sooner post will arrive at its : destination. My experience with An Post has always been good. I was coming to Dublin back in '93 to research parish records at the National Library. Back then you needed a letter of permission from the local parish priest or the bishop of the diocese to look at any of the records. I had written to the Bishop of Cloyne ahead of time and asked that the letter be sent to my attention to the hostel where I would be staying in Dublin. It was not there when I arrived and I discovered upon telephoning the Bishop's office that it had been sent to my address in the states. They sent a second letter to me that day from Cork and I got it the next day in Dublin. This was not special delivery and it certainly wasn't pony express, but I doubt I could have gotten it as quickly mailed from one town to another within Massachusetts. As for the use of postal codes, I hope An Post never follows the example of the postal authority in Northern Ireland which several years ago mandated that all townland names must be replaced by postal codes. It's taken years of protest from genealogists and historians campaigning to undo that mistake and I'm not sure if they have succeeded yet. -dja