Ireland is rare in the industrialized world in that it doesn't have postal codes—at all. In the countryside, some places don't have street names or house numbers even. ... From spring 2015, 2.2 million households will have a unique seven-character number for their address in a system to be called Eircode.

Does Ireland have postcodes 2020?

Eircode made Ireland the first country in the world to have a unique postcode for each address. An example of a typical Irish address is that of the Lord Mayor of Dublin: The Eircode is added on as an extra line to the existing address and postal district code which remains unchanged.

What is a valid postcode in Ireland?

A lot of people have trouble with sending and delivering goods to Ireland, as there is no official postcode system in place.