Can you name all 32 counties in Ireland without a map?

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1. Yep, the 4 provinces and then name all the counties in them.

   It was bet (not literally) into us at school.

   I couldn’t name all 50 states, but I would know a good few.

   England I’d say a handful.

2. Of course! We learned them all in primary school, along with the major towns/villages in each. I can see the map in my head.

   Can never name all 50 US states though, always get to about 47 or 48 and can never remember the last few.

3. Yeah, but I’d have to write them down.

4. Yes, super easy to find a list of them that aren’t on a map.

5. Primary school seared them into my brain both in English and as gaeilge.

6. > I could definitely name all 50 US states without a map

   This is mad, no way 20% of us could do this

7. Fuck you! I’m missing one!

   E: It was Longford

   E: I got to ~~42~~ 41 US States from memory over eating lunch

8. A Roscommon lad bet me $50 in a pub that I couldn’t so I reeled off 31 of them and pretended I couldn’t remember Roscommon. Well worth the money.

9. Nope. I’d get to around 27 or 28 and then start naming ones I’ve already named. I done it once in primary school, but that was a while ago now.

10. I could only remember 25, however that I’m not Irish so forgive me.

    I forgot:
    Antrim
    Down
    Monoghan
    Limerick
    Offaly
    Cavan
    Kidlare

    My apology to all of these counties.

11. South County Dublin, Bray, Howth, Northern Ireland, “The Field” ones …….. erm

12. There’s a website where you can type county names and it fills them in on a map and you can race against a timer to see how fast you can name all the counties. Every now and again I’ll have a go at it just because I like the idea of being able to name them all and embarrassingly it’s not something I was always able to do.

13. Yeah I can. And all the states. Who cares about england

14. 1. Antrim
    2. Armagh
    3. Carlow
    4. Cavan
    5. Clare
    6. Cork
    7. Derry
    8. Donegal
    9. Down
    10. Dublin
    11. Fermanagh
    12. Galway
    13. Kerry
    14. Kildare
    15. Kilkenny
    16. Laois
    17. Leitrim
    18. Limerick
    19. Longford
    20. Louth
    21. Mayo
    22. Meath
    23. Monaghan
    24. Offaly
    25. Roscommon
    26. Sligo
    27. Tipperary
    28. Tyrone
    29. Waterford
    30. Westmeath
    31. Wexford
    32. Wicklow

    I struggled with Monaghan. Northern Ireland was handy enough because I just had to remember FAT DAD.

15. Yea, easily. One of the best gifts I ever received as a young fella was this chunky 3D Jigsaw of Ireland and it’s counties in 32 pieces. Used to have races in our house to see who could do it fastest. Also if you pegged Cork or Donegal at someone you could do some damage!

16. You want to make this tougher, ask people to group them by province.

17. Yes easy. We learned a little rhyme for it in primary school for the counties of each province.

18. There’s a song I learned as a child. It was written by Cyril Curren. Dustin the Turkey also has a version.

19. I’d say I could get all the states, all the counties but I’d run the risk of forgetting what I said lol

20. When I was in primary school we had copybooks with a drawing of Ireland on the back, I’d spend some free time filling in the counties and major rivers.

21. No

22. I could get most but there are a couple i’d likely get wrong

23. Garrison Keilor, the American writer and radio personality, could name all the counties in Minnesota in alphabetical order. There are 80.

24. Yeah, Id be stunned if someone couldnt tbh. I mean, Id prob miss one or two on the first pass and have to go back over before the one that needed a lil more noodle power came to mind (sorry Fermanagh btw.)

    I could do the states too, with a little more trouble.

    Not so great with England.

25. Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary, Carlow, Wicklow, Offaly, Clare, Limerick, Galway, Roscommon, Longford, Meath, Westmeath, Kildare, Dublin, Louth, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Donegal, Derry, Athlone, Tyrone, Armagh, Monahan, Belfast, Cavan, Navan, Kilkenny.

    Apparently no I can’t, I decided that Navan and Athlone were a counties and forgot about Antrim and Laois.

26. We had a song in school;

    “Donegal, Derry, Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Caaaavan. Louth, Meath, Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow.” (I can’t remember the rest of it)

27. If I could write them down, I’d be very confident. I’d have a seriously good bash at the 50 states too.

28. Here’s some handy games to practice.

    https://edware.ie/games/

29. I can, province by province, we learned a kind of rhyme in national school and it’s stuck in the memory bank. I could only say them in the order of the rhyme thing though

30. Yes thanks to this fella…

    https://totallyirishgifts.com/product/32-counties-of-ireland-wooden-jigsaw/

31. We learned them in English and Irish in primary school lol, will forget my mothers voice before Ceatharlach.

32. [Here’s a test if anyone wants to check for themselves.](https://www.sporcle.com/games/AidoLynskey/name-32-counties-ireland)

33. Yes I can, and I’m a fecking immigrant.

34. I still say them in the order I was taught in school

    Each grouped by province

35. Leinster

    Dublin
    Wicklow
    Wexford
    Kilkenny
    Carlow
    Kildare
    Laois
    Louth
    Longford
    Meath
    Westmeath
    Offaly

    Munster

    Cork
    Kerry
    Clare
    Limerick
    Tipperary
    Waterford

    Connaught

    Galway
    Mayo
    Sligo
    Leitrim
    Roscommon

    Ulster

    Fermanagh
    Armagh
    Tyrone
    Derry
    Antrim
    Down

    Donegal
    Monaghan
    Cavan

    Same order as I learned them in school.

    Drilled in like the times tables

36. Well for starters that’s a map of the USA

37. I can name them all, but I’m pretty sure I’d have difficulty placing them all on a map.

38. I only know the ones in Dublin

39. With a map, it’s ridiculously easy. Without a map, I got to 31 fairly handy but it took me forever to remember Leitrim. Got there eventually though.