Irish Historic Towns Atlas

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This dataset shows the locations of towns identified in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Historic Towns Atlas. The Historic Towns Atlas displays towns of over 3000 inhabitants and urban district towns along with information about their origin. The Atlas was used to identify the settlements and the locations were digitised based on coordinates for the settlements. The dataset shows towns within 2 km of the coast.

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2019-11-15 – 2019-11-20
Date (creation)	1970-12-31
Date (publication)	2022-08-31
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	Conditions for access and use apply
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show