How can I find an Irish residential address?

[Seasidefishnchips]

After comparing old photos (and with the knowledge of what road I’m looking for) I’ve finally located the bungalow where my late GM was raised in Southern Ireland. However, on google earth none of the houses/bungalows on the country road appear to be numbered, and only a tiny few seem to have names on them which are visible from the road.
I know numbers can be obscured occasionally on street view, although I don’t think this is the case here, as there are literally hardly any clues to anyone’s addresses on this particular road,.
The reason I’d like to know the exact address, is so that I can write to the owner of the house (as I believe the bungalow is still in the family), and I hope to be able to share photos I have of my GM standing outside her family home with her parents
,along with others my mum and I don’t recognise. Hopefully, the family member living there may also share old photos or stories they’ have of my GM and/or other ancestors if I was able to contact them.
Any tips on how to find an address when you can only use google earth/street view?

I assume you’re talking about rural Ireland? Houses often won’t have names or numbers eg my mum’s address in Co Wexford is
name
area of part of the village
name of main village
county

so if you write eg Walsh home, Dublin Road, Spiddel, Co Galway (totally made up) you might get lucky. Or join a local FB page for that area and ask if anyone knows the people who live there

Hi Seasidefishnchips,

If you know the general area and what county then you can put it in the local Facebook page. Someone will find you the address.
If it's in the countryside there probably will be no number on the house, mine hasn't.
We got eircodes in the last few years so that might help.

Taz.

You can find the eircode using the eircode website if you know the general area and exactly where on the map the house is.

Thanks for the replies, I haven’t heard of eircodes, so I’ll have to read up on it!

Yes the bungalow is in the countryside down near Rochestown.

Thanks, I’ll look up on a local fb page

m.facebook.com/groups/644731139397472/

FB page for Rochestown above

Yes to this. The eircode finder website has a map feature.

Unlike UK postcodes, Irish eircodes are unique to each property which might help too.

Please when you approach Irish people about this, refrain from using the term ‘Southern Ireland’. There is no such country. It’s the Republic of Ireland, or just Ireland.

Thanks for the link!

finder.eircode.ie/#/

Here you go OP, if the property (or any around it) was assigned an eircode you can get the address. Search Rochetown but instead of clicking on any of the results, click View on map instead . Then zoom in to where the cottage is. Any dwelling with an eircode will have a red dot when you zoom in far enough, centre the red dot in the red crosshairs in the centre of the page and click "View eircode". This will give you the address and eircode. Hope I've explained OK, the website isn't the most user friendly to be honest

Thank you, I’ll definitely read up on this

Thank you, that’s very helpful!

I know Southern Ireland isn’t a country in itself. I didn’t refer to it as one. I was explaining where abouts in Ireland I was referring to for the reasons given.

But there is literally no such place.

Not really though, for instance you wouldn't say Eastern England or Northern Wales. Just like there's no such place as Southern Ireland.
To Irish people it's just Ireland or if you are talking about Cork, the south of Ireland (like you'd say the south of England. Say it in the Irish Facebook group and you'll probably get a pile in, just so you know.

OP I’m sure you didn’t mean to say the wrong thing in calling it Southern Ireland. But please accept the pretty gentle corrections above. There really is no place called Southern Ireland. And if you use that term on Irish pages, you may well get roasted.

Also Roscommon is defo not in the South so that will only confuse matters

You don't refer to the south of Ireland as Southern Ireland. Its considered rude and ill informed of the countries politics. If you say it on facebook expect to be corrected.

I hadn’t realised that it could be considered rude to use the term ‘southern’ ….. I used it ( not out of malice) because I wanted to clarify the exact area in Ireland I was referring to, which was Rochestown.
I wondered if maybe residential addresses would be similar (and numbered) in Northern Ireland like they are in the UK, hence why I referred to that part of Ireland as I did.

If you mean rochestown in cork , then just say cork or if you want to be a bit vague , then use the province munster.

Thanks once again for helping with the eircode (and to others who did too) …. it took me a while but I eventually managed to hover over the right bungalow and got the code, so now I’ve got an address I can write to! 🙂

The issue some were picking up was your capitalisation of the letter 's'. If you'd left it as lower case, it should be clear to others you are literally referring to a region of the Republic of Ireland itself.

People do routinely say 'northern England' and 'northern Scotland' while I also say 'eastern Northern Ireland'. On a larger scale, people often say 'northern Europe' and 'north Africa' which are also larger regional references. Just some examples.

The lowercase makes it clear its a region of each particular country or continent. Of course, there will always be those who aren't that well versed in the English language who will needlessly take offence at a correct lowercase usage. But I'd ignore them, really.

At least, you've found the property you're after.