Ireland counties quiz

The 26 counties in the quiz

Ireland has 26 counties: 26 in the quiz. Use the Capitals button in the panel to find their capitals instead.

How to play

In Point mode we name a county and you tap it on the map; in Type mode one lights up and you type its name (accents don’t matter); and in Time trial you get 6 seconds per question. If you miss, we show you where it was, which way it lies and a hint drawn from the data: its size rank and its neighbors.

Each game has 10, 20 or all the questions, and at the end you can practice just the ones you missed. Your best score for each mode is saved in this browser only: neither we nor anyone else can see it, and there’s no sign-up.

The hardest ones

The smallest counties are the hardest, since they barely show on the map: Louth (about 320 sq mi), Carlow (about 340 sq mi), and Dublin (about 360 sq mi). Zoom in with the buttons or two fingers to tap them.

Tips to learn them

• Start with the three largest: Cork, Galway, and Mayo cover 27% of the area of Ireland.
• The 5 counties bordering United Kingdom trace that border on the map: Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Louth, and Monaghan.
• 11 of the 26 have no coastline: Carlow, Cavan, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Tipperary, and Westmeath.
• Tipperary has the most neighbors: it borders 8 counties. Once you place it, you have a landmark for many more.

Playing in class

If you teach in Ireland, start with your school’s county and its neighbors and add a few each day. Otherwise, it’s a good way to get to know the country before studying it.

With the Challenge your class link, everyone gets the same questions in the same order, with no accounts or passwords, and each student sees their own score, time and streak. To practice on paper, there’s a printable worksheet of the same map with an answer key.

List of all 26 counties

1. Carlow Carlow
2. Cavan Cavan
3. Clare Ennis
4. Cork Cork
5. Donegal Lifford
6. Dublin Dublin
7. Galway Galway
8. Kerry Tralee
9. Kildare Naas
10. Kilkenny Kilkenny
11. Laois Portlaoise
12. Leitrim Carrick-on-Shannon
13. Limerick Limerick
14. Longford Longford
15. Louth Dundalk
16. Mayo Castlebar
17. Meath Navan
18. Monaghan Monaghan
19. Offaly Tullamore
20. Roscommon Roscommon
21. Sligo Sligo
22. Tipperary
23. Waterford Waterford
24. Westmeath Mullingar
25. Wexford Wexford
26. Wicklow Wicklow