As I understand it the Chapman codes are all three letter codes. See Genuki: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/irl/codes.html also Wikidpedia and others have them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_code#Ireland I used the codes when I was transcribing Irish census several years ago. Cheers all, Christina On 12/5/2010 2:58 AM, Cara_Links wrote: > These codes have been used since the beginning of codes in Ireland and I am > sorry Joyce I went > back and rechecked them all, and no you are only correct on two, so here is > the corrected Chapman code again. > Dublin and Roscommon thankyou for pointing those out - which lead to me > rechecking my work > Thankyou > Cara > > CHAPMAN CODES FOR COUNTIES OF IRELAND > ANT-Antrim > > ARM-Armagh > CAR-Carlow > CAV-Cavan > CLAR-Clare