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Quiz: Can you name this county without its borders?

This is trickier than you think.

WE ALL REMEMBER learning where the various counties are, but how good will you be with the county borders removed?

What county is number 1?
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Galway
Offaly

Roscommon
Westmeath
And number 2?
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Kerry
Cork

Limerick
Waterford
To the opposite end of the country for 3?
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Louth
Down

Antrim
Fermanagh
And number 4?
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Kilkenny
Wicklow

Waterford
Wexford
Number 5 might be near a few borders, but where is it pointed at?
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Clare
Galway

Limerick
Westmeath
And number 6?
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Laois
Offaly

Carlow
Tipperary
Commuter belt stuff at 7, but where exactly?
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Dublin
Meath

Louth
Kildare
We're around the Shannon Estuary now, but where exactly is 8?
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Clare
Kerry

Limerick
Tipperary
Heart of the Midlands for 9, but whereabouts?
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Laois
Offaly

Westmeath
Carlow
Up northwest for 10, but where exactly?
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Sligo
Donegal

Leitrim
Fermanagh
A couple to go, where is 11?
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Cavan
Monaghan

Longford
Roscommon
And finally, number 12?
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Kerry
Cork

Tipperary
Waterford
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    Mute Rory J Leonard
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    Jun 25th 2020, 9:45 PM

    I request a stewards enquiry, please, on the geographical exactitude for some of those pin placings?

    No 6 for example must be on the border between Tipp and Laois.

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    Mute Peter Hughes
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    Jun 26th 2020, 8:30 AM

    @Rory J Leonard: some were next to impossible to know…..which was which

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    Mute Gareth Murran
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:28 PM

    Good idea but you can’t see some of the place markers. Number 4 is pointing at Clare yet says it’s Galway?

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    Mute John Murphy
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    Jun 26th 2020, 12:02 AM

    @Gareth Murran: its pointing at gort in Galway, but admittedly only a few km from the Clare border!

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    Mute Jim Cunningham
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    Jun 25th 2020, 9:45 PM

    Well No10 explains a lot. No wonder I couldn’t find Donegal last year, I was looking in the Northwest.

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    Mute ed w
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:57 PM

    @Jim Cunningham: it looks more like the few km of leitrim coast between the browse and ballintrilick rivers

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    Mute Brendan Wallace
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:07 PM

    Worst Journal quiz ever. Couldn’t even see the numbers and north and south were cut off. Awful effort.

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    Mute King B
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    Jun 25th 2020, 9:35 PM

    Those arrows and maps are dodgy ,swear it’s not my geography knowledge. A horrendous four.

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    Mute Shane Barry
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    Jun 25th 2020, 9:45 PM

    @King B: at least ya did better than me

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    Mute Larry Betts
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    Jun 25th 2020, 9:47 PM

    @King B: I live In Wexford and didn’t even get my own county,deliberately misleading quiz.

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    Mute alphasully
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:06 PM

    cant even see where 2 is pointing at

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    Mute James Hayes
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:20 PM

    @alphasully: same here had to laugh when it said what was the one opposite 3…I cant even see 3…:-))

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    Mute Lad
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    Jun 25th 2020, 11:04 PM

    @alphasully: it’s somewhere on the Cork kerry border like, have to guess.

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    Mute Bartron5000
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:32 PM

    This is a joke journal. Seriously that’s probably the worst I’ve seen on this.

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    Mute Dave Thomas
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    Jun 25th 2020, 9:56 PM

    Donegal is not in the northeast!

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    Mute Simon Barr
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:15 PM

    @Dave Thomas: Letterkenny is further East than Athlone believe it or not

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    Mute Shane Brigdale
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    Jun 25th 2020, 11:19 PM

    And where exactly is the Shannon estuary gone !!

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    Mute Barry Dempsey
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    Jun 25th 2020, 9:35 PM

    An embarrassing 6. I mean..
    I love Ireland country nice first visiting time me here..

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    Mute Dizzy
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    Jun 25th 2020, 9:48 PM

    @Barry Dempsey: I got 6 too taught I’d get more.

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    Mute Mark Walsh
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:03 PM

    @Barry Dempsey:
    Jesus are you related to Yoda by any chance

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    Mute Hans Vos
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:28 PM

    @Barry Dempsey: I can’t complain about 7 then.

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    Mute Badger the witness
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    Jun 25th 2020, 11:25 PM

    7 but I’m giving myself an 8 for the Cork/kerry one that wasn’t even in the picture.

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    Mute Peter J Carey
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:14 PM

    In all fairness, I am absolutely disappointed …with geological facts and global mapping there is a fair amount of certainty..we who love our daily journal and accept the fact that “jesus”…..you will get your act together..at some stage….are again most disappointed by this diarrhoea..

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    Mute LeoVaradsCar
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    Jun 26th 2020, 4:00 AM

    Gave up after I got the Galway one wrong because I couldn’t read the numbers. I live in Galway.,

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    Mute Stephen Deegan
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    Jun 26th 2020, 7:37 AM

    …at least it’s not (another) soccer quiz!

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    Mute Peter J Carey
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:18 PM

    I’ll take it

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Jun 25th 2020, 11:01 PM

    You got a C too?

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    Mute John O'Brien
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    Jun 25th 2020, 10:33 PM

    8 surprised meself lol

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    Mute Ger
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    Jun 26th 2020, 1:22 AM

    I may have done shit in this quiz but even I know Donegal is northwest, not northeast

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    Mute Valthebear
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    Jun 26th 2020, 9:25 AM

    Am told I have decent eyesight. Couldn’t make out any of the numbers on a phone though. Come on lads…

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    Jun 26th 2020, 9:39 AM

    Impossible on my phone, top and bottom of the map missing.

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    Jun 26th 2020, 11:05 AM

    Q2 and 3 cant see the required pin numbers

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    Jun 26th 2020, 10:59 AM

    Who put this together? Helen Keller?

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    Mute Colm de Cleir
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    Jul 12th 2020, 12:48 AM

    10/12, Offally caught me out twice!

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    Jun 27th 2020, 8:48 AM

    A lucky 7 considering awful pin positions

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