Auld Reekie
This gun gets its name from the time it gets fired at Edinburgh Castle so shipworkers in Leith and the Firth of Forth know when to eat lunch.
What is the One O’Clock Gun?
The result of this battle was the loss of Scotland’s hopes for Bonnie Prince Charlie to be king and the almost total destruction of the Scottish Highlander culture.
What was the battle of Culloden?
This Irish city named a park after US President Kennedy.
What is Galway?
Dublin means this in Gaelic.
The Black Pool.
John Lnox hated this Scottish Queen because she was French, Catholic, and a woman.
Who was Mary Queen of Scots.
This pub was named because it’s located at the end of Old Edinburgh and most people couldn’t afford to leave the city.
What is the End of the World Pub.
Mommy filled up the rental car and Daddy stopped at a Scotch whiskey distillery in this town.
What is Dalwhinnie?
This term for execution by hanging without a trial, may come from the name of a Galway family.
What is lynching?
A statue of the “Great Liberator” is on this Dublin street, also named after him.
Who is Daniel O’Connell?
This Highland town is infamous as the sight of a massacre of the MacDonald clan by the Campbells.
What is Glencoe.
She was the first closed sheep, now on display at the National Museum of Scotland.
Who is Dolly?
This canal connects Loch Ness and other Lochs throughout Scotland.
This town, home of the O’Donoghue’s and O’Connell’s, is in County Limerick, but their GAA wears Tipperary colors.
What is Pallasgreen?
This future Taoiseach of Ireland was formerly a guest at this Dublin jail.
What is Kilmainheim Gaol.
This Edinburgh ice cream parlour has an Instagram following, and the Donohue’s liked it too.
What is Mary’s Milk Bar?
This pub is named after the loyal dog who kept watch over his master’s grave in this “kirkyard.”
What is Greyfriars Bobby?
This Scottish King defeated the English at Banneckborn.
Who is Robert the Bruce?
This drink, served at Bunratty Castle, is made with honey, and newlyweds drank it for a month, leading to the term Honeymoon.
What is mead.
This bridge crosses the River Liffey near the Temple Bar area of Dublin.
What is the Ha’Penny Bridge?
This was the seat of British power in Ireland. Until it was handed over to Irish forces.
What is Dublin Castle?
This Protestant religious figure is buried in an Edinburgh car park.
Who is John Knox?
This castle is the considered the gateway to the Highlands.
What is Stirling Castle.
This type of tomb, like Poulnabrone in the Burren.
What is a portal tomb?
Rival statues of this goddess who gives her name to Ireland appear on either side of Dublin’s College Street.
This Irish mythological hero, named for his blonde hair, jumped his horse from Nicker Hill to the O’Donoghue farm, leaving an imprint.
Who was Fionn McCool?