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Villages with enough people that locals would call them a proper town, but small enough that they rarely make the news. Ranked play starts here, since cities are too easy to be a real test.

In Ireland this set is spread across 3 different provinces, with Leinster home to the most of them (19).

How this category is defined

Place kinds on GuessTheDot are a practical grouping by population and place type for gameplay, not a legal or historical designation. A place can hold official city rights (or an old city charter) and still show up here as a village if it stayed small, and the other way around: this is a rough size ladder for guessing, not a statement about a place's official status.

Places in this set

25

Smallest population

14,508

Largest population

40,776

Median population

18,369

Two you might get asked about

Clondalkin
14,508 inhabitants, Leinster
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Swords
40,776 inhabitants, Leinster
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

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All 25 big villages in Ireland

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Swords	40,776	Leinster
Bray	33,512	Leinster
Dún Laoghaire	31,239	Leinster
Douglas	26,883	Munster
Sandyford	22,288	Leinster
Kilkenny	21,589	Leinster
Wexford	21,524	Leinster
Naas	20,713	Leinster
Sligo	20,608	Connacht
Celbridge	20,288	Leinster
Finglas	19,768	Leinster
Ballincollig	18,621	Munster
Cluain Meala	18,369	Munster
Carrigaline	18,239	Munster
Rathfarnham	17,333	Leinster
Maynooth	17,259	Leinster
Malahide	16,550	Leinster
Blanchardstown	16,511	Leinster
Tullamore	15,598	Leinster
Leixlip	15,504	Leinster
Lucan	15,269	Leinster
Kilquade	14,886	Leinster
Castletroy	14,733	Munster
Knocklyon	14,628	Leinster
Clondalkin	14,508	Leinster

Tips for this category

These places cluster around bigger cities more than you would expect: check the commuter belt of the nearest big city first.
Names ending in common local suffixes (think "-dorp", "-ham", "-ville") often hint at the region, not just the country.

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