Parades, festivals, and pub crawls may be the norm each year on Saint Patrick’s Day. But the March 17th holiday is also a religious one, originally intended to honor the c. 461 death of a patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick.

Regardless of how you celebrate, the cities that turn up the most on Saint Patrick’s Day may be those with related names—and they’re not only in Ireland.

While there are no cities named “Leprechaun” (unfortunately), there are 101 cities with names like Shamrock, Clover, Luck, and Ireland located across countries from America to Zimbabwe, as you’ll see on the map below.

View St. Patrick’s Day Cities in a full screen map

Dublin, Shamrock, & Other Popular City Names

There are 101 cities on the map, yet we included just 10 unique Saint Patrick’s Day-related names. That means that while these cities are located in different countries, continents, and even hemispheres… the one thing they have in common is their name:

• Dublin – 24 cities
• Shamrock – 13
• Limerick – 11
• Clover – 10
• Rainbow – 9
• Patrick – 8
• Ireland – 8
• Lucky – 7
• Luck – 6
• Saint Patrick – 5

Dublin is by far the most popular Saint Patrick’s Day-themed city name, with 24 cities around the world sharing the name of Ireland’s capital and largest city.

The majority (18) of the other Dublins are located throughout the U.S., especially in the East. You’ll find many of them in the Southeast: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia. Meanwhile, there are also Dublins in Northeastern states like Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Many of these U.S. Dublins were established by Irish settlers, hence the name. They may be more concentrated in the East as at the time of Irish migration to the U.S., port cities like Pennsylvania and New York were quite popular.

There is also a Dublin in Australia, Sierra Leone, and two in Belarus.

On the same continent as the U.S. is Limerick, Saskatchewan in Canada.

You can see the rest of the cities named Limerick, Shamrock, and the others when you sort the map above by City.

Countries with the Most St. Patty’s Day Cities

While the U.S. is home to 18 Dublins, it’s also home to 61 more cities with Saint Patrick’s Day-related names, for a little over 78% of the total. This includes all of the cities on the map named Shamrock and Clover.

The most (six) are concentrated in Ohio: Clover, Dublin, Ireland, Limerick, Rainbow, and Saint Patrick. This is followed by Texas (Dublin, Ireland, Patrick, Rainbow, and Shamrock) and Pennsylvania (Dublin, Clover, Limerick, Lucky, and Shamrock) with five each.

Meanwhile, more countries than the U.S. have multiple Saint Patrick’s Day-themed cities. Not surprisingly, Ireland has four: two large cities named Dublin and Limericks, along with two smaller towns with the two same names.

Another European country, Slovakia, has three cities also of the same name: Lucky in Banska Bystrica, Lucky in Kosice, and Lucky in Zilina.

That leaves Lesotho, Isle of Man, Belarus, and Australia all with two. Additionally, Albania, Canada, Czech Republic, Poland, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe are home to one.

You can be festive regardless of whether you live near a holiday-themed city. One way to get into the spirit is through color—and then why not put it on a map?

Change Your Map Marker Colors

Maps can certainly help you gain geographic insights into your data. But that’s not the only pro of mapping. Most data has a topic or theme, like our Saint Patrick’s Day-themed cities or the Olympics. You can maintain your map’s cohesive narrative by customizing your map marker color.

If you’re mapping St. Patty’s Day data, it would be fitting to change the marker colors to various shades of green, gold, and all the colors of the rainbow. There are many similar cases in which your marker color can help in conveying your data.

See how BatchGeo gives you control over the story you tell with your location data, right down to how they’re styled.

College basketball fans are expanding their cable packages. Many who follow March Madness closely will want to watch as many of the 67 games in the tournament as possible. As the teams move further in the tournament, you’ll want to check out the map below of every team to ever make the Final Four at least once. Explore the groups to see teams with appearances in the Finals and who has won the tournament the most times.

View NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four Appearances in a full screen map

Note: asterisks (*) indicate that teams that have had at least one of the marked appearances vacated due to NCAA sanctions.

Teams with 10 or More Final Four Appearances

There are 95 teams represented on this map. All have made it through the early rounds of the tournament to be part of the Final Four. More than half of those teams (59) have done so at least twice—and the following eight teams have made it to the Final Four 10 or more times:

• North Carolina (21 Final Four appearances)
• UCLA (19)
• Duke (17)
• Kentucky (17)
• Kansas (16)
• Ohio State (11)
• Louisville (10)
• Michigan State (10)

While an older version of this post noted just seven teams with 10+ appearances, Michigan State’s 2015 and 2019 Final Four appearances allowed for their addition. Who knows, maybe we’ll soon be adding Indiana to this list.

Of course, some of these teams have made it past the Final Four and into the Finals many times. Yet only UCLA (13), Kentucky (12), North Carolina (12), Duke (11), and Kansas (10) have moved forward 10 or more times. Additionally, many of these same teams have gone on to win more than any others.

NCAA Men’s Basketball Winners

Most of the teams with 10 or more Final Four appearances are amongst the most winning teams, as well. Yet wins, as opposed to Finals and even Final Four appearances, are harder to get. Just one team has earned over 10 of these:

• UCLA (11 wins)
• Kentucky (8)
• North Carolina (6)
• Duke (5)
• Indiana (5)
• Kansas (4)
• UConn (4)
• Villanova (3)
• Louisville (3)

UCLA has won 11 times, including 10 out of 12 years between 1964 and 1975 under legendary coach John Wooden. However, the team has faced somewhat of a dry spell, at least where wins are concerned: their last W was in 1995.

Meanwhile, Kentucky has won eight times, most recently in 2012. Unlike UCLA though, their only winning streak was long ago when they won three out of four years between 1948 and 1951. North Carolina has six wins out of their 21 Final Four appearances (and 12 championship game chances) for a winning percentage of X.

14 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Champions’ Perfect Winning Percentages

Then there are 14 teams with the most championship wins without a loss.

School	Finals	Champions	Winning Percentage (Wins / Finals)
UConn	4	4	100.00%
Louisville	3*	3*	100.00%
NC State	2	2	100.00%
San Francisco	2	2	100.00%
CCNY	1	1	100.00%
Holy Cross	1	1	100.00%
Loyola–Chicago	1	1	100.00%
Maryland	1	1	100.00%
Oregon	1	1	100.00%
Stanford	1	1	100.00%
UNLV	1	1	100.00%
UTEP	1	1	100.00%
Virginia	1	1	100.00%
Wyoming	1	1	100.00%

UCONN has the most championship wins without a loss. The Huskies of the Northeast have made the Final Four on five occasions and won all four of their championship appearances. By comparison, Kansas took 16 trips to the Final Four and 10 championship game appearances to have the same number of tournament wins.

The only other teams with perfect records throughout multiple Finals include Louisville (3), NC State (2), and San Francisco (2).

Similarly, 10 other teams have won their only championship appearance (CCNY, Holy Cross, Loyola–Chicago, Maryland, Oregon, Stanford, UNLV, UTEP, Virginia, and Wyoming). Meanwhile, 16 teams have lost in their only trip to the Finals—and 35 haven’t ever made it that far.

Improve the Accuracy of Your Bracket

If you think it’s hard to win a championship, try to correctly guess the winner. Every year millions attempt to fill out an accurate bracket beforehand and nobody has ever been perfect.

In the video above, Professor Jeff Bergen from DePaul University (two Final Four appearances, both resulting in losses) outlines the many different possible brackets. If filled out completely at random, there’s a one in nine quintillion chance of choosing every winner correctly. It’s a big number, which Bergen writes out on the board. He also goes on to estimate that knowledgeable basketball fans can get the likelihood down to one in 128 million.

Go ahead and fill out your bracket for fun. But expect to achieve the same result as 66 of the 67 teams in the tournament: another year without a victory.

For those tracking other NCAA championships, be sure to check out our map of the NCAA Football Champions.

Your relationship has had a lot of firsts. Of course, there’s your first meeting, first date, and first kiss. Depending on how long you’ve been together, you may also have marriage or even child-related milestones to celebrate.

Remembering these milestones is the idea behind those maps of your relationship that make for popular gifts around Valentine’s Day. And while those certainly are thoughtful tokens to hang on the wall, we’re in the digital age.

We want to show you how to make an online map of your milestones, which starts by jotting down the most important events of your relationship.

Jot Down the Important Events of Your Relationship

You certainly have an idea of the important milestones in your relationship—you were there, after all. But have you ever written them down?

More than just for posterity’s sake, a spreadsheet of the most important events throughout your years together will help you make your map. So go ahead and note your relationship milestones in a column within Excel or Google Sheets.

Some ideas to consider:

• Your first meeting
• First date
• First “I love you”
• Engagement
• Marriage

You might also wish to add when you first moved in together, your first vacation, or even your first fight (which may have occurred on the same day as one of the prior two events), among other events specific to your relationship.

But beyond noting the type of milestone, there are a few more details you’ll want to include.

Add Locations & Dates

In addition to writing down your milestones, you need to note a few more things about these events: locations and dates.

Each of your relationship’s moments occurred somewhere. If it’s a common enough location, such as a landmark (i.e. Library Quad, California State University, Sacramento, CA), you can include that in its own column, along with city, state, and optionally country all in separate columns. The same goes for specific locations, like business names (i.e. or Grumpy Mule Coffee, Sacramento, CA).

Beyond that, you’ll want to include addresses (i.e. 5901 Newman Ct)—though locations aren’t the only additional data you should include.

It’s equally as useful to note the date of each event, though you’ll want to include each part in its own column (i.e. Day, Month, Year). Once that’s done, we can move on to the final part: making the map!

Map Your Milestones

View Your Relationship Milestones in a full screen map

With your milestones and their details collected, it’s time to map them. There are plenty of methods for map making on the web, including ArcGIS and the Google Maps API. But for an option that doesn’t require you to purchase expensive software (as with ArcGIS) or have any programming knowledge (Google Maps API), our web-based mapping tool might just be your best bet. That’s because all you’ll need to know how to do is copy and paste.

So let’s jump into it:

1. Open your spreadsheet of relationship milestones
2. Select (Ctrl+A or Cmd+A) and copy (Ctrl+C or Cmd+C) your data
3. Open your web browser and navigate to batchgeo.com
4. Click on the location data box with the example data in it, then paste (Ctrl+V or Cmd+V) your own data
5. Check to make sure you have the proper location data columns available by clicking “Validate and Set Options”
6. Select the proper location column from each drop-down
7. Click “Make Map” and watch as the geocoder performs its process

From there, you can choose your map’s base styles, along with the marker shapes, colors, and labels. Once you’re happy with your map, send the link to the one you love most.