---
id: "ie_postcode"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["geo", "pii", "common"]
country: ["IE"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 68
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ie_postcode"
---

# Ireland postal code (`ie_postcode`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Postal code in Ireland: the Eircode, introduced in 2015. It has seven letters and digits, written as a group of three and a group of four with an optional space.

- Pattern of: `postindex`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Personally identifiable information (pii), Common (common)
- Countries: Ireland (IE)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[\dA-Z]{3} ?[\dA-Z]{4}$
```

## Examples

- `A65 F4E2`
- `A65 F4E` (invalid example) — too short

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_addresses_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland>
- other: <https://chromium-i18n.appspot.com/ssl-address/data/IE>

## Quality

Score 68/100. Missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ie_postcode.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/IE/geo/ie_postcode.yaml>