Norniron Geographical Quiz

As promised, a quiz on the geography of Northern Ireland :

1. Name Northern Ireland's ten highest peaks. (1pt each)
2. What, at 5.56 square miles, is Northern Ireland's principal offshore island ?
3. Name Northern Ireland's two major Loughs (lakes). (1pt each)
4. Northern Ireland has two major reservoirs - name them. (1pt each)
5. What is a) most northerly b) most westerly c) most southerly and d) most easterly point in Northern Ireland ? (1pt each)
6. Northern Ireland has a World Heritage Site - name it.
7. There are nine AONB's (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) - name them for 1pt each.
8. Name the six present-day Counties. (1pt for each)
9. There are 26 N.I. Districts - half-point for each one you can name.
10. To ask the names of cities would be too easy - so what is Northern Ireland's New Town ?

Good luck !

[WolfLord]

1.Slieve Donard (825m), Cuilcagh Mountain Park(606m), Slieve Croob(435m), Donald's Hill (399m), Divis[Dubh Ais](380m), Benaughlin Mountain(373m), Slieve Binnian(350m), Slieve Muck(350m), Belmore Mountain(322m), Slieve Bearnaugh(292m)
2.Rathlin
3.Neagh, Erne
4.Lough Neagh, Silent Valley Reservoir
5.a)Big Bow Meel Island
b)Tearaght Island
c)Fastnet Rock
d)Inishtrahull Island
6.Giant's Causeway
7.Antrim Coast and Glens, Causeway Coast, Lagan Valley, Lecale Coast, Mourne, North Derry, Ring Of Gullion,Sperrin,Strangford Lough
8.Down, Antrim, Armagh, Fermanagh, Londonderry,Tyrone
9.Antrim, Ards, Armagh, Ballymena,Ballymoney, Banbridge, Belfast, Carrick Fergus, Castlereagh, Coleraine, Cookstown, Craigavon, Derry, Down, Dungannon and South Tyrone, Fermanagh, Larne, Limavaldy, Lisburn, Magherafelt, Moyle, Newry and Mourne, Newtownabbey, North Down, Omagh, Strabane
10.Craigavon

We are lucky with this one as Sarah's family are from Ireland

wolfman said:

1.Slieve Donard (825m), Cuilcagh Mountain Park(606m), Slieve Croob(435m), Donald's Hill (399m), Divis[Dubh Ais](380m), Benaughlin Mountain(373m), Slieve Binnian(350m), Slieve Muck(350m), Belmore Mountain(322m), Slieve Bearnaugh(292m)
2.Rathlin
3.Neagh, Erne
4.Lough Neagh, Silent Valley Reservoir
5.a)Big Bow Meel Island
b)Tearaght Island
c)Fastnet Rock
d)Inishtrahull Island
6.Giant's Causeway
7.Antrim Coast and Glens, Causeway Coast, Lagan Valley, Lecale Coast, Mourne, North Derry, Ring Of Gullion,Sperrin,Strangford Lough
8.Down, Antrim, Armagh, Fermanagh, Londonderry,Tyrone
9.Antrim, Ards, Armagh, Ballymena,Ballymoney, Banbridge, Belfast, Carrick Fergus, Castlereagh, Coleraine, Cookstown, Craigavon, Derry, Down, Dungannon and South Tyrone, Fermanagh, Larne, Limavaldy, Lisburn, Magherafelt, Moyle, Newry and Mourne, Newtownabbey, North Down, Omagh, Strabane
10.Craigavon

We are lucky with this one as Sarah's family are from Ireland

Right, have highlighted everything I agree with unconditionally.
Will now double check my information on any answers that conflict with mine !
Your score so far : 37
........and probably more to come !
4) and 6) are half-answers. 4) correct is Lough Island Reavy, whilst 6) is Giants Causeway and the Causeway Coast 1pt.

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[glow=red,2,300]Wolfman 38pts[/glow]

What I shall do, is call in an adjudicator for questions 1) and 5), so step forward please Mark James.

These are the answers I have :
Northern Ireland's Ten highest Peaks : (all except one in County Down)
1. Slieve Donard (852m), 2. Slieve Commedagh (767m), 3. Slieve Bearnagh (730m), 4. Slieve Mael Beg (704m), 5. Slieve Lamagan (703m), 6. Slieve Binnian (685m), 7. Slieve Mael Mor (682m), 8. Sawel Mountain (Tyrone)(678m), 9. Shan Slieve (671m), 10. Slieve Muck (668m).

5. Most northerly point in Northern Ireland: Benbane Head, Moyle, Antrim
Most westerly point in Northern Ireland: Cornaglah, Fermanagh
Most southerly point in Northern Ireland: Cranfield Point, Newry and Mourne, Down
Most easterly point in Northern Ireland: Townhead, Ards Peninsula, Down.

Note for adjudicator :
Mark, I rather suspect that I am guilty in an inadequate wording and should have asked for the mainland extremities. However, when speaking of the westernmost point of England, most people would say Lands End and not some point in the Scilly Isles.
If Wolfman turns out to be right he gets the points, and I think I can also be generous in allowing some points to the adjudicator !

Thanks, tommo

Okay, Mark has declined to adjudicate on the basis that the question is of such a technical nature that local knowledge would not have a bearing and the solution can only be found by reference/research. So it’s down to poor old tommo ! ::)

So for Question 1) on the peaks, tommo’s reference book is ramificated by what is said on Wikepedia – as well as on various other sites. There is a possible disagreement on the order for Slieve Binnian and Slieve Muck, which some lists show as higher up, but the general consensus is that the ten highest are as I listed previously. 4 points have already been awarded to Wolfman for those he mentioned. The other six which he named do exist, but are not of sufficient elevation. Cuilcagh Mountain at 665m almost makes it on to the list but not quite, so I’ll give a further 0.5 for that one.

As regards Question 5) I have suddenly twigged that Wolfman has given the N, S, E & W extremities of the whole of Ireland: Tearaght Island is 12.5 km west of the Dingle Peninsula; Fastnet Rock is 11.3km south of County Cork; and Inishtrahull Island is 7km north of the Inishtrahull Peninsular of County Donegal, which though the Northernmost point of Ireland is also part of the Republic.

The only one that comes close to satisfying the answer of this quiz on Northern Ireland is Big Bow Meel Island, which lies 900 metres off the Ards Peninsula as per map.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ards_Peninsula

It will be seen that this is the most easterly point of Northern Ireland, however and not the northernmost (as requested in 5a) so I’ll award 0.5 for that one too.

Quiz ended:

Wolfman 39pts