The datasets behind the site's pages, free as CSV files for research, teaching and journalism. Each comes from a named source, and that source's licence applies — please credit it, and myireland.ie, with a link.
| Dataset | Rows | Source | Licence | File |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baronies of Ireland | 333 | Wikipedia, List of baronies of Ireland (Irish names cited there to Logainm.ie) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | baronies.csv |
| Townlands per county | 32 | townlands.ie (OpenStreetMap data) | ODbL 1.0 | townland-counts.csv |
| Battles and sieges in Ireland to 1923 | 136 | Wikidata and English Wikipedia | CC0 (Wikidata) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia) | battles.csv |
| Poor law unions and workhouses | 163 | Peter Higginbotham, workhouses.org.uk (facts only) | Facts compiled by myireland.ie; credit workhouses.org.uk | workhouses.csv |
| Holy wells (Sites and Monuments Record) | 3,032 | National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record, via data.gov.ie | CC BY 4.0 | holy-wells.csv |
| Recorded monuments by county and type | 26 | National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record, via data.gov.ie | CC BY 4.0 | monuments-by-county.csv |
| Historic buildings by county and type | 26 | National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, via data.gov.ie | CC BY 4.0 | historic-buildings.csv |
| Railway stations with opening and closing years | 728 | English Wikipedia (station articles) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | railway-stations.csv |
| Notable shipwrecks on the Irish coast | 55 | English Wikipedia (wreck articles) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | shipwrecks.csv |
| Olympic medals won for Ireland | 42 | English Wikipedia, Ireland at the Olympics; birthplaces from athletes' articles | CC BY-SA 4.0 | olympic-medals.csv |
| Net migration between censuses, 1926–2022 | 17 | Central Statistics Office, table F1005 | CC BY 4.0 | net-migration.csv |
| Highest point in every county | 32 | Wikipedia, List of Irish counties by highest point (MountainViews data) | CC BY-SA 4.0 | county-high-points.csv |
| Pattern days at holy wells | 238 | National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC BY 4.0), and English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); status is as the source described it when written | CC BY 4.0 (SMR) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikipedia) | patterns.csv |
| Irish speakers by county, 1851–1926 (26 counties, all ages) | 208 | Central Statistics Office, Census of Population 1926, Volume 8, Tables 5 and 6 (percent blank where no whole-county figure is printed) | CC BY 4.0 | irish-speakers-1851-1926.csv |
Files are regenerated whenever the site's data changes, so they always match the pages. Each page explains how its figures were gathered and what they leave out — read it before drawing conclusions. CSV files are UTF-8, with a header row.
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