Questions
- Name the second largest city in Ireland? And which Irish province is it in?
- Which mountain range that takes its name from a county, is the largest continuous upland area in Ireland?
- Which is the smallest of the Irish provinces both in terms of population and size?
- What is the name of the highest mountain in Ireland?
- And what is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland?
- Can you name the longest river in Ireland?
- Which large park in Dublin is the largest urban park in the city?
- Is Ireland the second, third, fourth or fifth largest island in Europe?
- Which large freshwater lake in Northern Ireland is the largest in the island of Ireland?
- Which famous bay is located on the west coast of Ireland in the province of Connacht?
- Which mountain range is on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry?
- Which county in the province of Munster contains the towns of Clonmel and Nenagh?
- Which river flows through the centre of Dublin?
- How many provinces of Ireland are there? These now mostly function as cultural and historical entities.
- What is the name of the sea off the south coast of Ireland?
- Which inlet in the northwest of Ireland is the country's largest bay?
- Which mountain range in the south-east of Northern Ireland are designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?
- Which county is called the Garden of Ireland?
- Which area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland?
- Which river in Leinster is about 70 miles long?
- Which county takes its name from the Old Irish word meaning "middle" or "centre"?
- Which river forms much of the border between County Down and County Antrim in Northern Ireland?
- Which city, with a population of just over a hundred thousand, is the fourth-most populous city on the island of Ireland?
- Name any one of the two towns in Northern Ireland granted city status in 2002?
- Which city is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland?
- What river is the longest river in Ulster?
- Which seaport town on the south coast of County Cork was known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown?
Answers
- Cork. It is in Munster.
- Wicklow Mountains
- Connacht
- Carrauntoohil (at 1,038.6 metres)
- Slieve Donard (at 850 metres)
- The River Shannon (224.0 miles long)
- Pheonix Park
- Third largest (behind Great Britain and Iceland)
- Lough Neagh
- Galway Bay
- MacGillycuddy's Reeks
- County Tipperary
- River Liffey
- Four (Connacht, Leinster, Munster, and Ulster)
- Celtic Sea
- Donegal Bay
- The Mourne Mountains
- County Wicklow
- The Giant's Causeway
- River Boyne
- County Meath
- The Lagan
- Limerick
- Lisburn or Newry
- Derry, officially Londonderry
- River Bann
- Cobh
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