Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- SHAMROCK
- The three-leafed shamrock became Ireland's national emblem partly because Saint Patrick is said to have used it to explain the Holy Trinity to early Irish converts.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- PEAT
- Cut from ancient bogland and dried in the open air, peat has warmed Irish hearths for thousands of years, and carries a smoky, earthy scent unlike any other fuel.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- LOUGH
- The Irish word for lake, lough (pronounced 'lock'), dots the landscape from the giant Lough Corrib in the west to the storied shores of Lough Neagh in the north.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- STOUT
- Ireland's dark, creamy stout became a global icon, the Guinness brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin has been operating since 1759.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Ireland word search
Ireland: a free online word search
Ireland word search, playable online right now. Find shamrock or thatched cottage the way you'd hum a reel before the kettle's done.
About Ireland
Ireland is a land that wears its weather like a mood, low clouds rolling off the Atlantic, silver light breaking suddenly over a patchwork of fields stitched together by ancient stone walls. Villages cluster around a church steeple and a pub with a painted door, where fiddles start up without ceremony and strangers are pulled into the conversation before their coats are off. Beneath it all runs a deep Celtic current: in the Gaelic script above the shop fronts, the carved spiral of a standing stone, and the bog that has kept its secrets for thousands of years.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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