Generator · Irish data

Irish vehicle registration plate

Endpoint GET /v1/ie/vehicle-registration

What it covers

Returns a realistic Irish vehicle registration plate. `type` selects the kind: `standard` (default, `YYY-CC-N…`, e.g. 231-D-12345), `taxi` and `electric` (identical `YYY-CC-N…` format), `temporary-import` (`ZZ NNNNN`, year-less), or `vintage` (`ZV NNNN`, year-less). `era` switches the year-and-county classes between `current` (2013+ three-digit-year), `legacy` (1987–2012 two-digit-year, may draw a retired index mark), or `both`. Pin the county index mark with `county` (an unknown county is a 400). Ireland issues no vanity plates and no plate carries a checksum. Use `format` to choose hyphenated, spaced, or compact rendering.

Parameters

ParameterTypeDescription
countinteger1–1000Number of records to return, 1–1000 (your plan may lower this). Omitted returns a single record; set it for a batch.
countystringForce the county index mark by name (e.g. Dublin, Kerry). An unknown county is a 400.
edgebooleanRestrict output to edge-case plates from the rare corners of the format.
era"current" | "legacy" | "both"Registration era for year-and-county plates: current (2013+ YYY-CC-N…), legacy (1987–2012 YY-CC-N…), or both. Ignored for temporary-import / vintage.
extremebooleanReturn a correct value wrapped in a hostile encoding (untrimmed whitespace, invisible/zero-width characters, BOM, or bidi/combining marks). Homoglyphs are excluded so the value stays machine-parseable; it still validates after normalisation.
format"with-hyphen" | "with-space" | "compact"Plate rendering: with-hyphen (default), with-space, or compact.
invalidbooleanReturn a deliberately invalid value that fails validation, for testing rejection paths.
seedintegerInteger seed for reproducible output: the same seed always yields the same record.
type"standard" | "temporary-import" | "vintage" | "taxi" | "electric"Plate kind: standard, temporary-import, vintage, taxi, or electric.

Response fields

FieldTypeDescription
valuestringThe plate in the requested format, e.g. "231-D-12345".
type"standard" | "temporary-import" | "vintage" | "taxi" | "electric"Which kind of plate this is.
era?"current" | "legacy"Which era the plate belongs to: current (2013+ three-digit-year) or legacy (1987–2012 two-digit-year). Absent for the year-less classes.
county?stringThe county whose index mark heads the plate (Dublin, Cork, Kerry). Absent for temporary-import / vintage, which encode no county.
subregion?stringThe finer administrative unit for a retired index mark on a legacy plate (e.g. Limerick city → LK). Absent otherwise.

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