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Irish plates begin with year and half-year, followed by a county or city code and a serial. The county name appears in Irish above the registration.
The ordinary example follows YYS-CC-serial.
261 means the first half of 2026; D identifies Dublin.
The integrated or adjacent international identifier is IRL.
Motorcycles, trailers and restricted mounting spaces may use a dedicated stacked or compact physical format.
Diplomatic, temporary, trade, historic or public-service vehicles use protected combinations that sit outside the ordinary sequence.
Colour and suffixes can completely change a plate's meaning.
The current ordinary YYS-CC-serial registration.
The final year digit becomes 2 for July–December.
Newer zero-emission plates may carry a green right-edge flash.
Diplomatic vehicles use reserved serial allocations.
A reconstructed current plate and concise system timeline, separated from the more extensively documented country archives.
Irish plates begin with year and half-year, followed by a county or city code and a serial. The county name appears in Irish above the registration.
The YYS-CC-serial system establishes the ordinary plate described above.
261 means the first half of 2026; D identifies Dublin.
Special status, vehicle class or use can change the colour, prefix, suffix or even the entire registration logic.
The final year digit becomes 2 for July–December.
Newer zero-emission plates may carry a green right-edge flash.
Diplomatic vehicles use reserved serial allocations.
Irish plates begin with year and half-year, followed by a county or city code and a serial. The county name appears in Irish above the registration.
The ordinary example follows YYS-CC-serial.
261 means the first half of 2026; D identifies Dublin.
The integrated or adjacent international identifier is IRL.
Motorcycles, trailers and restricted mounting spaces may use a dedicated stacked or compact physical format.
Diplomatic, temporary, trade, historic or public-service vehicles use protected combinations that sit outside the ordinary sequence.
Colour, prefix, dimensions or a control field can signal a different legal registration class.
The current ordinary YYS-CC-serial registration.
The final year digit becomes 2 for July–December.
Newer zero-emission plates may carry a green right-edge flash.
Diplomatic vehicles use reserved serial allocations.
Search the ordinary YYS-CC-serial grammar and the principal special registrations represented in this guide.
261 means the first half of 2026; D identifies Dublin.
The IRL identifier distinguishes the country in international traffic.
Special-series colours and codes are legal status markers rather than decorative alternatives.