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Ireland Address Formatting Guide

Ireland uses a 7 character alphanumeric postcode located below the locality name with a space after the first 3 characters. Addresses follow a standard format with name, address lines, locality, county, postcode, and country. The address is written in the bottom left corner of envelopes in a left-aligned format. Examples show addresses for individuals and organizations in different localities following the standard format.

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Ireland Address Formatting Guide

Ireland uses a 7 character alphanumeric postcode located below the locality name with a space after the first 3 characters. Addresses follow a standard format with name, address lines, locality, county, postcode, and country. The address is written in the bottom left corner of envelopes in a left-aligned format. Examples show addresses for individuals and organizations in different localities following the standard format.

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Ireland

Postcode Postcode type and position

7 alphanumeric characters below the name of the locality


with a space after the first 3 alphanumeric characters

Coding Method

T37 F8HK
MS M SULLIVAN
56 BROOMFIELD
unique identifier MACROOM
CO. CORK
routing key (defines principal T37 F8HK
post town span of delivery) IRELAND

Position of the Bottom left- Alignment of Left-


address on the hand corner address lines aligned
envelope

Address format A standard address is in the following format:


line 1: name of addressee;
line 2: name of organization;
line 3(a): house number and thoroughfare name
line 3(b): house name and street name on a separate next line if thoroughfare is
named
line 4: name of locality;
line 5: name of locality (post town), expressed with a postal district number for
Dublin postal districts where applicable;
line 6: name of county (unless identical to name of town);
line 7: postcode (Eircode).
line 8: name of country.
The following rules should be followed when writing the address:
 avoid punctuation marks, underlining and handwritten addresses;
 the recommended character font is Arial (black text on white ground); however, Century, Cour
11, 12 or 13 point fonts are preferred, with a tone value of 10, 11 or 12;
 the address lines should ideally be 3 mm apart, up to a maximum spacing of 4
mm;
 all characters should be of the same size and style;
 there should be no more than 32 characters per line, not counting spaces;
 any empty lines are deleted.
Return address
All mail must include the sender’s address. These rules should be observed:
 the sender’s address should appear on the front upper left-hand corner of the
envelope;
 no line should exceed 80 mm in length and font size 8 is preferred;

Examples MS M SULLIVAN addressee


56 BROOMFIELD premises + street
MACROOM locality
CO. CORK county
T37 F8HK postcode (Eircode)
Ireland (cont.)
Examples IRELAND country
(cont.)
Ms. M Sullivan addressee
BALLINROAMIN building
THURLES locality
CO. TIPPERARY county
A65 TF12 postcode (Eircode)
IRELAND country

Ms. M Sullivan addressee


21 STONEWALL DRIVE premises + street
DUBLIN 24 postal district
D24 TF12 postcode (Eircode)
IRELAND country

Abbreviation Abbr. Full name


CO./Co. County

Contact An Post Tel: (+353 1) 705 97 83


International Section Fax: (+353 1) 705 07 63
Dublin Mail Center
Oak Rd
DUBLIN 12
D12 V4AC
IRELAND

Website www.anpost.ie/AnPost/
 06/2017 © www.upu.int

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