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Golden Island derelict house

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  • #2
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    An old lady lived there with 11 sons and 11 daughters. They all mysteriously died one summer and nobody has gone near the house since.

    They say that sometimes you can still hear the cries of the old lady in the late hours of the night...


    Also, the whole area used to be the town dump/landfill so people might be hesitatant to buy property on it.


  • #3
    Rasmus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Rasmus


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    An old lady lived there with 11 sons and 11 daughters. They all mysteriously died one summer and nobody has gone near the house since.

    They say that sometimes you can still hear the cries of the old lady in the late hours of the night...


    Also, the whole area used to be the town dump/landfill so people might be hesitatant to buy property on it.

    Silly me, I thought that was the crying of the people who left their cars in the tesco carpark after 11pm.
    Yeah I know it was a dump - was this house adjacent to it or do you know the timeline?


  • #4
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Could also be the crying of the morbidly obese diabetics arriving to find that Dealz has closed.


  • #5
    L.Jenkins
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    Won't be interested in purchasing the place, if on occasion you can even get a strong stench from GI. Imagine how that place might smell downwind.


  • #6
    Rasmus
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    Itzy wrote: »
    Won't be interested in purchasing the place, if on occasion you can even get a strong stench from GI. Imagine how that place might smell downwind.

    Nasty. Probably on flood-plain too.


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  • #7
    L.Jenkins
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    I wouldn't be surprised if it was. I'm sure the only reason you'd pay the €100,000 for the house is the 2 acres of land that comes with it and its location relative to GI and other shops.


  • #8
    Mearings
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    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    An old lady lived there with 11 sons and 11 daughters. They all mysteriously died one summer and nobody has gone near the house since.
    They say that sometimes you can still hear the cries of the old lady in the late hours of the night...
    Also, the whole area used to be the town dump/landfill so people might be hesitatant to buy property on it.

    That area was not the town dump. The dump was to the south west of Payne's Lane.
    I think that the house is not situated in Golden Island. The house appears to be built on the burgage land of Irishtown and therefore is within the old town boundary.

    Good story, 22 children? No wonder she built stables.


  • #9
    Mearings
    Registered Users Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Mearings


    ps Anybody know what they're asking for the windsor chairs?


  • #10
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Mearings wrote: »
    Good story, 22 children? No wonder she built stables.

    Standard number of kids for the Irishtown area back in the day. Surely you remember her, she walked a bit like John Wayne.


  • #11
    Mearings
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    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    Standard number of kids for the Irishtown area back in the day. Surely you remember her, she walked a bit like John Wayne.

    http://www.tcmclassicfilmfestival.com/mediaroom/video/293604/True-Grit-Movie-Clip-She-Reminds-Me-Of-Me.html


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  • #12
    tubos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 450 ✭✭tubos


    Its Google Maps as 'Golden Island House' and when the staellite image was taken the driveway was clear of all the grass. I'd say it got ruined during the big floods a few years back


  • #13
    Mearings
    Registered Users Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Mearings


    tubos wrote: »
    Its Google Maps as 'Golden Island House' and when the staellite image was taken the driveway was clear of all the grass. I'd say it got ruined during the big floods a few years back

    I think that you are correct & therefore the blue teardrop indicator on the ad. map is incorrect.
    GI House is not within the Diskin development.


  • #14
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    tubos wrote: »
    Its Google Maps as 'Golden Island House' and when the staellite image was taken the driveway was clear of all the grass. I'd say it got ruined during the big floods a few years back

    This Bing aerial view makes a flood look likely:

    http://binged.it/192dB36


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