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Counties of Ireland

Can you guess all the counties in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland?
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Last updated: November 3, 2018
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First submittedFebruary 12, 2013
Times taken130,443
Average score62.5%
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Leinster
Carlow
Dublin
Kildare
Kilkenny
Laois
Longford
Louth
Meath
Offaly
Westmeath
Wexford
Wicklow
Munster
Clare
Cork
Kerry
Limerick
Tipperary
Waterford
Connaught
Galway
Leitrim
Mayo
Roscommon
Sligo
Ulster
Antrim
Armagh
Cavan
Derry /
Londonderry
Donegal
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Fermanagh
Monaghan
Tyrone
+24
Level 92
Mar 18, 2013
It's a long way to Tipperary...
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Level 88
Aug 16, 2016
It's a long way to go!
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Level 79
Mar 15, 2020
It's a long way to Tipperary...
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Level 79
Mar 15, 2020
To the sweetest girl I know!
+12
Level 61
Apr 23, 2020
Goodbye, Piccadilly,
+13
Level 75
Aug 12, 2020
Farewell, Leicester Square
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Level 44
May 26, 2021
Did I miss something?
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Level 49
May 24, 2022
It's a famous marching song called "It's a rong way to Tipperary"
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Level 57
Sep 20, 2022
It's a long, long way to to Tipperary
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Level 40
Jan 1, 2023
But my heart's right there!
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Level 64
Apr 18, 2013
In the interests of fairness County Londonderry should also be accepted...
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Level 18
Apr 27, 2013
Oh dear.
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Level 2
Aug 23, 2013
Although Londonderry is on the map of Ireland, It is not considered part of Ireland as Northern Ireland is under the British Rule?
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Level 64
Sep 5, 2013
It depends if you mean 'Ireland' to mean the whole island - which it is in a purely geographical sense - or 'Ireland' to refer to the Republic of Ireland, which uses the former name (i.e. without the 'Republic') as its official name.
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Level 71
Nov 4, 2016
Look up 'Democracy' in the Dictionary.
+47
Level 43
Aug 29, 2014
the london is silent
+9
Level 74
Mar 17, 2016
Which can never be said about the actual city bearing that name. Loud hooligans!
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Level 64
May 6, 2015
Derry is the name of the county, while Londonderry is the official name for the second largest city in Northern Ireland.
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Level 21
Jul 28, 2018
Legally, the city and county are called "Londonderry", while the local government district containing the city is called "Derry and Strabane" - Wikipedia
+9
Level 78
Aug 29, 2019
You can go there yourself and tell them that!
+4
Level 41
Mar 29, 2020
No.
+8
Level 42
Mar 5, 2014
To Keith ruffles

Tiocfaidh ar la

+29
Level 90
Nov 14, 2014
Oh my God! They Kilkenny!
+10
Level 61
Aug 29, 2020
You bastards!
+2
Level 51
May 2, 2015
finished with just 5 seconds left
+7
Level 63
Oct 16, 2015
yipee, a map!

thanks, love the maps.

+5
Level 75
Jan 8, 2016
I got a couple more thanks to my son who did a study-abroad semester in Ireland, with classes in Dingle, Donegal, Dublin, and Derry. (The alliteration helped me remember them ten years later.)
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Level 79
Mar 15, 2020
Dingle is actually a town in County Kerry.
+5
Level 27
May 2, 2020
yeah but Donegal and Derry are towns aswell and Dublin is a city
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Level 72
Mar 18, 2021
I need a dongle for my laptop. Can I buy it in Dingle or do I have to drive to Donegal?
+4
Level 79
Mar 17, 2016
Kiss me, I'm Jewish. I mean Irish.
+3
Level 57
Mar 18, 2016
Westmeath was the only one I didn't get, after getting Meath!
+4
Level 66
Mar 19, 2016
Yay I got 1
+4
Level 16
Mar 3, 2018
You got 1 right?
+4
Level 71
Dec 14, 2016
Good quiz, if you enjoyed this try my ...... 'Walk the Coast of Ireland - Name the Counties'
+4
Level 48
Feb 2, 2017
I'm surprised (and impressed) that so many people get Dongeal.
+2
Level 45
Nov 28, 2018
I remember it because it is part of Ulster but not part of the UK.
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Level 62
Sep 30, 2019
i got it from sean macguire
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Level 21
May 13, 2017
DAMMIT I ALWAYS FORGET LEITRIM
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Level 56
Apr 9, 2022
Same
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Level 55
Jul 31, 2017
My Grandad is from a small village in Kilkenny called Kilmacow... which always made me chuckle :')
+4
Level 79
Mar 25, 2019
Haha, found it! https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Narrabaun+South,+Kilmacow,+Co.+Kilkenny,+Ireland/@52.3130146,-7.1797255,16.25z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4842cf7dc0c17347:0xa00c7a997318920!8m2!3d52.3123573!4d-7.1769117
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Level 46
Apr 24, 2022
lol
+3
Level 67
Aug 16, 2017
I could be wrong, but I don't remember Cavan or Donegal being part of Ulster (I'd be very worried if they were).
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Level 59
Sep 26, 2017
They are part of Ulster, but not part of Northern Ireland (there is a difference)
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Level 75
Mar 31, 2018
There are 9 counties in the province of Ulster. Cavan, Monaghan and Donegal are in the Republic of Ireland whilst the other 6 make up Northern Ireland.
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Level 59
Sep 26, 2017
Offaly difficult...
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Level 77
Nov 20, 2017
Same quiz but in Alphabetical Order
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Level 50
Jul 7, 2018
you know you know nothing about ireland when you just get offaly and kildare ._.
+16
Level 21
Jul 28, 2018
You got Offaly and Kildare.... but not Dublin????
+3
Level 69
Jan 17, 2019
Good ole' County Louth, where book is pronounced boooook (think moon)
+1
Level 14
Mar 17, 2019
nice quiz.
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Level 79
Mar 15, 2020
Could you accept Queen's County for Laois and King's County for Offaly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Laois

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Offaly

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Level 58
Mar 17, 2021
Technically still valid and not unused, but anachronistic and not in common use at all. Not in my experience at least.
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Level 54
Mar 12, 2022
I am Irish and I think alot of people would prefer Offaly and Laois as Kings County and Queens County were from the times the UK rule all of Ireland and keeping ties like that weren't really part of it
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Level 49
Feb 19, 2024
But they're not valid names. They haven't been since 1922. I think that 100+ years should be enough to get up to date with the names.
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Level 49
Jul 12, 2023
They are still used on old land registry documentation, but not in every day language. Source: born and bred in Ireland!
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Level 16
May 5, 2020
South Dublin, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal.
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Level 58
Mar 17, 2021
For those not in the know, these are new divisions to make Dublin easier to run. Could maybe sidestep this by renaming the quiz to traditional counties of Ireland?
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Level 49
Feb 19, 2024
county boundaries and administrative boundaries have varied long before the recent reorg of Dublin municipalities. many towns and cities have separate administrations from the county. Tipperary was split into South and North until 2014. Effectively two counties. They even had different car number plates.
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Level 29
Sep 18, 2020
I don’t think NI should be included in this quiz: they are not the same country that’s like having

DR and Haiti in the same quiz

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Level 58
Mar 17, 2021
DR and Haiti would belong together if the quiz was about the island of Hispaniola, as this one is about the island of Ireland.
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Level 49
Feb 19, 2024
It's not really. Ireland and NI have a much bigger overlap, for example all citizens of NI can get an Irish passport and have an automatic right to Irish citizenship. A large chunk of the population of NI consider themselves Irish in the sense of identifying with the state of Ireland.
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Level 37
Sep 18, 2020
Northern Ireland is Technically part of UK. Should be in the UK counties.
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Level 82
Dec 28, 2020
Ireland is the name of the island. The quiz is called Counties of Ireland, not Counties of the Republic of Ireland.
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Level 57
Nov 14, 2020
I got most of the ones I knew from EU4.
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Level 53
Nov 15, 2020
I think it is Connacht, not Connaught.

see Wikipedia

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Level 58
Mar 17, 2021
Correct, the "aught" spelling is an Anglicization that has been reversed apart from some legacy titles as is no longer in common use here.

Source: I live there, but a quick google search should how how much more common the "acht" spelling is now

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Level 39
Feb 17, 2021
Got all 32
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Level 70
Mar 17, 2021
26+6=1
+1
Level 64
Mar 18, 2021
Hardy Bucks and Derry girls helped me get 2 out of 5 I got right.
+1
Level 30
Aug 25, 2021
Good quiz
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Level 57
Jan 4, 2022
Mayo lol
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Level 63
Feb 1, 2022
American here. Can only reliably name 10-12 counties. I have always liked how the Irish put "County" before the name of the county rather than the other way around like we do in the US. It just seems classy somehow.
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Level 29
Apr 30, 2022
Only 66% for Mayo!
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Level 57
Jun 28, 2023
I only know them because I follow the All Ireland Senior Championship from abroad.
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Level 46
Dec 20, 2023
Why is there only 1 answer