The Placenames Database of Ireland is a comprehensive management system for data, archival records, and placenames research conducted by the Irish State. It was developed by FIONTAR at Dublin City University in collaboration with The Placenames Branch (Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaetacht). The public website is primarily aimed at journalists and translators, students and teachers, historians and researchers in genealogy. It is a public resource for Irish people and those who appreciate the heritage of Irish placenames. Those sentences come from Wikipedia. The website to which the Wikipedia definition refers can be found at http://www.logainm.ie/en. Today John Grenham writes about logainm.ie and its "superb collection of maps" in his Irish Roots blog posting at Irishtimes.com. If you haven't visited the logainm.ie site recently - and have any curiousity about Irish placenames - give it a look.