Photo location game · Europe
Ireland landmarks quiz: guess where 11 photos were taken
Play a round of five photos from Ireland, then see all 11 places with their photos, facts and spots on the map.
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The round is five photos. Look at the photo, tap the map, see the distance, then go to the next one.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
11 on the mapAll 11 places
The bay on Ireland's west coast that Galway city opens onto, guarded by the Aran Islands.
Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Shannon-side city with King John's Castle guarding the river.
Photo: MonikaKub / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland's first national park, lakes and oak woods beneath the MacGillycuddy's Reeks.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Irish capital on the River Liffey, home of Guinness and James Joyce.
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A jagged Atlantic rock with a 6th-century monastery, seen in Star Wars.
Photo: Jerzy Strzelecki / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Sea cliffs rising 214 metres above the Atlantic on Ireland's west coast.
Photo: Berthold Werner / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Newgrange, a 5,200-year-old passage tomb lit by the sun only at the winter solstice.
Photo: Dieglop / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland's second city, built on an island in the River Lee.
Photo: K.ristof / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland's highest mountain at 1,039 metres, in the MacGillycuddy's Reeks.
Photo: Mariusz Z / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Ireland's largest island, with some of Europe's highest sea cliffs at Croaghaun.
Photo: Kiran Madhusudhanan / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 6th-century monastic city with a round tower in a valley of two lakes.
Photo: Schcambo at English Wikipedia / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
There are 340 km between the two sides of the map, from Skellig Michael across to Dublin.
At least half the photos from Ireland are rated hard. Photos rated hard include Galway Bay, Limerick and Killarney National Park. Dublin is rated easy. On Galway Bay you can be 150 km out and still score 5,000. Skellig Michael is a jagged Atlantic rock with a 6th-century monastery, seen in Star Wars.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many places from Ireland can come up?
Ireland has 11 places in the game. Achill Island is the furthest north and Skellig Michael the furthest south.
What is the hardest photo from Ireland?
The hard ones include Galway Bay, Limerick and Killarney National Park. On any photo the score halves for every 693 km you are outside the accuracy radius.
Which photo from Ireland gives the most room for error?
Galway Bay. Its radius is 150 km, the widest on this page, and a pin inside it gets the full 5,000.