The Secret Cork city postcodes

We've Eircodes now, which get you to a letter box, which supersede postcodes, which get you to a general area, so no need to go backwards.

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Where is Cork 4 out of curiosity? Bishopstown?[/QUOTE]

Cork 4 was Blackrock/ballinlough mahon . In the 1980s there was 4 City sorting Offices , Clontarf Street , Vickers road , the old school house next to the Sliver Key Bar and I think there was One in Churchfield. I only know of one now and that is close to Forge Hill Togher.

Frostybrew wrote: »

Postcodes were introduced in Cork the same time as in Dublin, but were never used by most people. The numbers are on many street names. The only company I know of that used the system was UPC/NTL/Chorus which always addressed Cork 1, Cork 2, etc.

There is a Cork 5 apparently, but I've never seen it on street signs.

Spot on, I was about to write something similar.






It's one of those things when you're aware of it, you start looking out for it.

Funnily enough, I've only ever seen them on the Northside.

I walked passed two similar signs in Bishopstown a few weeks ago and the number was missing from both. Wouldn't really be on the southside very often to know where else they might be.


The Eircode system we have now is absolutely world class, esp compared to the postcodes in the UK, which can be shared amongst a very large area.

Especially former NHS and RAF sites or farms that have been turned into housing estates, but only show their former use on the RM database.

It's unusual for public money to be spent here on a service and get a return that's better than what we could expect.

Bishopstown is in the Cork 4 area also, it's on all the street signs.

Our Eircode is a disaster, several delivery people have rung us to say they are lost. Only tonight a delivery man had to ring me to say he couldn't find us and I found him wandering up and down the road looking lost.. and no I don't live in the heart of the country, I live in a suburban estate.

namloc1980 wrote: »

Something wrong there. Delivery man sounds like he hasn't a notion. Every eircode is an actual property.

Exactly. If you use the eircode site it identifies the actual house.

munstermagic11 wrote: »

Public money wise it cost twice as much as it was expected to cost, so someone was happy (benefiitted) with the spend

I like it, and it was good to get it in, but not sure I’d go so far as to describe it as World Class. I still think it should have been regionized instead of the randomness that was used. For delivering it makes far more sense to see the Eircode and recognize at least the county it’s to be delivered. I do remember an Post and some delivery companies saying it wasn’t used that much; but that was a year ago, so might have changed in that time.

An Post never wanted it as they have their GeoDirectory which they were charging good money for people to access. The tin foil hat wearers might think that An Post purposely made Eircode non sequential to benefit themselves, as when Eircode was launched they were going to charge to look up an address if you needed more than a few each day, so courier companies couldn't easily use EirCode to plan delivery routes.

namloc1980 wrote: »

Something wrong there. Delivery man sounds like he hasn't a notion. Every eircode is an actual property.

Unless they never got planning permission and haven't been assigned one.

It's a logistics firm I work for and when troubleshooting incomplete addresses.

I'd encounter a few properties a week that were former granny flats, converted stables or bedsits that were never officially given their own properly registered addresses/numbers.

(Geocodes are the fall back in the above cases)

If the above is kosher, then it will pin point the house on Google maps, but a bit of common sense is still needed, as google will try and send you down phantom roads or across fields.



The further you go outside the city and the older the properties in the area the more essential they get.

There's even a part of the country where all the address you'll get is the parish and 'via-Limerick' even though it's nowhere near the Limerick border.