Reclaiming Irish place names
Explore thousands of Irish place names, learn their meanings, and reconnect with Ireland's ancient heritage.
App coming early 2026!
Baile Beo is a mobile app dedicated to reclaiming Irish place names and the stories they carry.
Across Ireland, towns, villages, and landscapes have long had a local identity. These names described the land itself — its geography, history, ecology, mythology, characters, and memories. Through centuries of colonisation and anglicisation, mirroring the decline of the Irish language itself, these logainmneacha (place names) have been largely forgotten in favour of nonsensical English inventions.
In recent years, alongside the revival that the Irish language is experiencing, there is a growing movement of people eager to reject the colonial names imposed on the island, and to reassert its Gaelic identity.
Baile Beo aims to support this mission, bringing those names back into everyday view.