Ireland/Boundaries
Intro
Administrative Boundaries are defined as relations over ways that are either drawn for this purpose only, or use ways that naturally form the boundary, such as center lines of rivers.
Care must be taken not to join those river segments that are part of a boundary with other segments.
All county relations must be circular loops, i.e. all segments arranged in sequence, which can be checked in the JOSM relation editor.
The layers.openstreetmap.fr map viewer has some handy layers for checking the current state of our admin boundaries.
To Do:
Talk about Irish administrative districts: Provinces, Baronies, Civil Parishes, Townlands etc..
Baronies, Civil Parishes, Townlands details should be on each respective county page, eventually.
Data Sources
GSGS 3906
These maps were scanned by TCD and are the best Ireland-wide maps we currently have available to map townland boundaries. See http://mapwarper.net/layers/101
Boundary Types
refer to boundary=administrative
Type | Tagging | Notes |
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National Border | boundary=administrative admin_level=2 place=country |
e.g. between Rep Ireland and Northern Ireland |
Northern Ireland state | boundary=administrative admin_level=4 place=state |
reserved for compatability with UK states |
Province | boundary=administrative admin_level=5 place=region |
e.g. Leinster, Ulster, Munster, Connacht |
Traditional County | boundary=administrative admin_level=6 place=county |
e.g. Dublin, Tipperary, Cork, Kildare |
County and City Councils (LAU-1) | boundary=administrative admin_level=7 |
e.g. Admin counties ( Wexford CoCo, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin, Dublin City), 5 County Cities (Dublin City, Cork City, Limerick City , Waterford City, Galway City) |
Municipal Districts | boundary=administrative admin_level=8 |
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_district_%28Ireland%29 |
Electoral Division (LAU-2) | boundary=administrative admin_level=9 |
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Townland | boundary=administrative admin_level=10 place=locality locality=townland |
Relation lists
National borders
Name | Relation |
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Republic of Ireland | 62273![]() |
Northern Ireland | 156393![]() |
United Kingdom | 62149![]() |
Traditional provinces
Name | Relation |
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Leinster Province | 278746![]() |
Munster Province | 278750![]() |
Connacht Province | 278721![]() |
Ulster Province | 278664![]() |
Leinster
Administrative counties in Dublin Region (former County Dublin)
Name | Relation | Source | Notes |
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Dublin (city) | 1109531![]() |
http://www.acts.ie/framed/en.act.1985.0007.6.html#sched1 http://achtanna.oireachtas.ie/framed/en.pract.1953.0001.2.html | |
County Fingal | 1114164![]() |
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County Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown | 1115720![]() |
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County South Dublin | 1117469![]() |
Munster
Name | Relation | Source | 1900 map scan |
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County Clare | 334885![]() |
http://warper.geothings.net/maps/wms/1463 and is_in information for Whitegate area | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1463 |
County Cork | 332631![]() |
is_in interpolation towards Limerick and Waterford, Atlas towards Kerry | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1462 |
County Kerry | 332622![]() |
http://warper.geothings.net/maps/preview/1456 | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1456 |
County Limerick | 334898![]() |
neighbor counties | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1452 |
County Tipperary | 334372![]() |
http://warper.geothings.net/maps/wms/1443 | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1443 |
County Waterford | 283426![]() |
rivers and is_in tags | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1440 |
Connacht
Name | Relation | Source | 1900 map scan |
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County Galway | 335444![]() |
neighbor counties | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1457 |
County Leitrim | 284368![]() |
http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1453 | |
County Mayo | 338539![]() |
http://warper.geothings.net/maps/wms/1449 | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1449 |
County Roscommon | 335443![]() |
neighbor counties | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1445 |
County Sligo | 335330![]() |
http://warper.geothings.net/maps/wms/1444 | http://warper.geothings.net/maps/1444 |