GuessTheDot is a free geography guessing game: you get a place name and a map full of dots, then click the one you think is right.

Regional cities: big enough to matter locally, small enough that most players outside the country have never heard of them. This is where guessing shifts from "I recognize the name" to "I recognize the region".

In Ireland this set is spread across 3 different provinces, with Leinster home to the most of them (11).

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

15

Smallest population

21,722

Largest population

81,022

Median population

26,079

Two you might get asked about

Balbriggan
21,722 inhabitants, Leinster
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Tallaght
81,022 inhabitants, Leinster
One of the better known ones in this set, a fair starting point if you are new to this category.

Play Cities in Ireland →

All 15 cities in Ireland

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Tallaght	81,022	Leinster
Waterford	60,079	Munster
Drogheda	44,135	Leinster
Dundalk	43,112	Leinster
Navan	33,886	Leinster
Ennis	27,923	Munster
Carlow	27,351	Leinster
Tralee	26,079	Munster
Portlaoise	23,494	Leinster
Athlone	22,869	Leinster
Droichead Nua	22,742	Leinster
An Muileann gCearr	22,667	Leinster
Letterkenny	22,549	Ulster
Greystones	22,009	Leinster
Balbriggan	21,722	Leinster

Tips for this category

Cluster them mentally by province or state first, then narrow down inside that cluster.
Distance to the nearest big city is a useful anchor if you know the bigger dots already.

Other place kinds in Ireland

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