Architecture
Round towers and beehive huts belong to early monastic Ireland, 600–1200. Squat tower houses are 15th–16th century. Brightly painted shopfronts on a main street are a 20th-century habit that photographs as instantly Irish.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Éire
Irish History Guesser
Ireland's history is older than the pyramids at one end and painfully recent at the other. Passage tombs, monastic scriptoria, famine roads and a Dublin post office under fire.
- Playable rounds
- 0
- Collections
- 0
- Era span
- 3200 BC – 1998
- Price
- Free
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Ireland's collection needs 3 more rounds before it opens. These are live today.
How to read a Irish scene
Ireland is small fields, big skies and stone that has usually been standing longer than it has been roofed. Ruins are not decoration here — abandoned churches, tower houses and famine cottages are ordinary parts of the landscape.
Landscape
Stone-walled fields in a fine mesh means the west — Connemara, the Aran Islands, the Burren's limestone pavement. Cut turf stacked in a bog is the midlands and west, and still common well into the 1990s.
Period tells
Georgian Dublin — brick, fanlights, iron railings — is 1750–1830. Ruined roofless cottages in otherwise empty countryside often date to the Famine years after 1845. Post boxes painted green rather than red mean after 1922.
Irish history timeline — moments worth guessing
A starting shortlist, oldest first. Every one of these makes a round that the Irish can nail and everyone else has to work out.
Newgrange aligned to the solstice
3200 BCBrú na Bóinne, Co. MeathAncient world
A passage tomb older than Stonehenge, built so midwinter sun floods the chamber.
Clonmacnoise monastery flourishes
900River Shannon, Co. OffalyMedieval
A river-crossing monastery where Irish monks copied manuscripts as Europe fragmented.
The Great Famine
1847Skibbereen, Co. CorkThe long 19th century
Blight, export policy and eviction killed a million people and scattered millions more.
The Easter Rising
1916GPO, Sackville Street, DublinModern era
Six days of rebellion in the capital; the executions that followed changed Irish opinion.
The Good Friday Agreement
1998Stormont, BelfastModern era
A negotiated end to three decades of conflict, ratified by referendum north and south.
Ireland in world history
Irish history touches ancient & classical, medieval & renaissance, 19th century and the 20th century. Each of those eras has a timed round of its own — the same centuries, but questions drawn from every country in the library, so you find out whether you can date the rest of the period as confidently as you can date Ireland.
Ancient & classical
2570 BC – AD 499
Irish moment here: Newgrange aligned to the solstice (3200 BC).
Medieval & Renaissance
AD 500 – 1599
Irish moment here: Clonmacnoise monastery flourishes (900).
19th century
1800 – 1899
Irish moment here: The Great Famine (1847).
20th century
1900 – 1999
Irish moments here: The Easter Rising (1916), The Good Friday Agreement (1998).
Irish history trivia — 10 questions with answers
Dates, order and places from the moments above. Answers are printed underneath — cover them with a hand if you want to test yourself, or read them out for a quiz round.
1.Newgrange aligned to the solstice — what year?
Answer3200 BC
A passage tomb older than Stonehenge, built so midwinter sun floods the chamber.
2.Clonmacnoise monastery flourishes — what year?
Answer900
A river-crossing monastery where Irish monks copied manuscripts as Europe fragmented.
3.The Great Famine — what year?
Answer1847
Blight, export policy and eviction killed a million people and scattered millions more.
4.The Easter Rising — what year?
Answer1916
Six days of rebellion in the capital; the executions that followed changed Irish opinion.
5.The Good Friday Agreement — what year?
Answer1998
A negotiated end to three decades of conflict, ratified by referendum north and south.
6.Which came first in Ireland — Newgrange aligned to the solstice or Clonmacnoise monastery flourishes?
AnswerNewgrange aligned to the solstice, in 3200 BC.
Clonmacnoise monastery flourishes follows in 900, 4100 years later.
7.Which came first in Ireland — the Great Famine or the Easter Rising?
AnswerThe Great Famine, in 1847.
The Easter Rising follows in 1916, 69 years later.
8.Where in Ireland would you drop the pin for Newgrange aligned to the solstice?
AnswerBrú na Bóinne, Co. Meath
A passage tomb older than Stonehenge, built so midwinter sun floods the chamber.
9.Where in Ireland would you drop the pin for Clonmacnoise monastery flourishes?
AnswerRiver Shannon, Co. Offaly
A river-crossing monastery where Irish monks copied manuscripts as Europe fragmented.
10.How far apart are the oldest and newest Irish moments in this collection?
Answer5,198 years
From Newgrange aligned to the solstice in 3200 BC to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
Build a Irish round yourself
You don't need a photograph or a map reference. Name a moment — "Newgrange aligned to the solstice, Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath" — and the builder fills in the year, drops the pin, writes the factoid and paints a 360° scene you can stand inside. Publish it and it joins this collection for everyone.
Step 1
Name the moment
One line is enough — an event, a place, a year you half-remember. Or let the AI draft five moments around a theme.
Step 2
Auto-fill the history
The year, the exact coordinates and a one-sentence factoid come back filled in. Everything stays editable.
Step 3
Generate the scene
A 4K 360° panorama of that place in that year, ready to spin around inside the game.
🇮🇪 Put your own scene on /play/ireland
Credits cover the AI: 1 to auto-fill a moment, 3 to draft five at once, 25 for each 4K panorama. Your map stays yours — you choose whether it's public, unlisted or private.
Community shortlist
Moments the Irish want to see in the game. Vote them up — the top of this list gets built next.
Irish history game — questions
How do you play the Irish history game?
Each round drops you into a 360° scene from Ireland's past. Look around for clues — architecture, clothing, technology, landscape — then place the scene on the world map and pick the year. You score up to 5,000 points a round: closer in distance and closer in time both pay. Five rounds make a game.
Do I need an account to play?
No. You can play Irish rounds straight away with no sign-up. Signing in saves your XP, keeps your character progressing through history, and puts you on the leaderboards.
What time period do the Irish rounds cover?
The collection spans 3200 BC to 1998 — from newgrange aligned to the solstice through to the good friday agreement. New moments are added as the community suggests them.
Is the Irish history game free?
Yes, completely free. There is no paywall on rounds, the daily challenge, or the leaderboards.
Can I suggest a moment from Ireland's history?
Yes — that's how the collection grows. Suggest any moment the Irish would recognise instantly, like newgrange aligned to the solstice. Approved suggestions get built into playable 360° rounds and credited on the page.
Keep playing
Daily Challenge
Five fresh rounds every day, same for everyone.
History quizzes
Short quizzes across eras, empires and events.
Community maps
Panorama collections built by other players.
All game modes
Every free history game on the site, in one list.
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