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.

Proper villages: a church, a main street, a few thousand people at most. This is the tier where local knowledge starts to matter more than general geography.

In Ireland this set is spread across 4 different provinces, with Leinster home to the most of them (24).

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

35

Smallest population

9,043

Largest population

14,504

Median population

10,645

Two you might get asked about

Ratoath
9,043 inhabitants, Leinster
The kind of place that is easy to miss on a map. Good practice for the sharpest players.

Killarney
14,504 inhabitants, Munster
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 35 villages in Ireland

Sorted by population, biggest first.

Place	Population	province
Killarney	14,504	Munster
Shankill	14,257	Leinster
Cobh	14,148	Munster
Mallow	13,456	Munster
Arklow	13,399	Leinster
Castlebar	13,054	Connacht
Wicklow	12,957	Leinster
Foxrock	12,870	Leinster
Ashbourne	12,679	Leinster
Midleton	12,496	Munster
Dundrum	12,152	Leinster
Cavan	11,741	Ulster
Crumlin	11,294	Leinster
Palmerstown	11,130	Leinster
Longford	10,952	Leinster
Laytown	10,889	Leinster
Jobstown	10,825	Leinster
Donnybrook	10,645	Leinster
Ballina	10,556	Connacht
Trá Mhór	10,381	Munster
Shannon	10,256	Munster
Skerries	10,043	Leinster
Cabinteely	10,038	Leinster
Nenagh	9,895	Munster
Gorey	9,822	Leinster
Oldbawn	9,784	Leinster
Enniscorthy	9,709	Leinster
Athy	9,677	Leinster
Tuam	9,647	Connacht
Ballyboden	9,611	Leinster
Trim	9,563	Leinster
Portmarnock	9,285	Leinster
An Ros	9,231	Leinster
Balally	9,051	Leinster
Ratoath	9,043	Leinster

Tips for this category

If you have ever driven through the region, trust that memory over a guess based on the name alone.
Villages tend to sit along old roads and rivers rather than in a grid, so look for natural lines on the map.

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