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In Ireland, place and street names, etc. are a mess. Many rural roads have no name. Many roads have more than one name or more than one spelling. Many roads, especially new ones in housing estates, have ambiguous names. Many addresses do not match the name of the road. OSM has large gaps, but is actually one of the better places for nuanced names.
Logainm (in the Irish language, loga + ainm = logbook + name): www.logainm.ie is a university-based project on place names, in association with the government's The Placenames Branch: https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-rural-and-community-development-and-the-gaeltacht/organisation-information/the-placenames-branch/ Logainm has a series of sister projects for similar topics.
The Irish chapter of OSM collaborates with Logainm, insofar as we report issues with names, e.g. etymology, mis-interpretations, mis-spellings, duplicate entries, missing entries. In turn, they provide us with the proper spellings and use OSM on their site. There is a issue with Logainm, insofar as official sources have gaps when it comes to things like the names of bridges, roundabouts, cross roads, etc. and new names. logainm:ref=No entry and logainm:url=No entry exist because of these gaps. They are a way to identify gaps in Logainm and stops OSM users from repeatedly looking for an entry that doesn't exist - this can be time consuming, as many names are repeated, e.g. "The Court" seems to apply to 2,087 different roads.