Cavan

Figment

I have recently been proved as to the existance of cavan when my GF got a job there.
Looks like ill be moving near a place called ballyjamesduff. Anyone know what its like? I can work from home but i need a good web connection. Is DSL available there?

Al

woolymammoth

erm... cavan's in the north east...

afraid i can't tell ya much about bally'duf, its not a place i frequent
too often.

and i imagine the fictional place you were thinking of is Carlow, not
Cavan


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Occidental

As we are not allowed beyond Lough Sheelin, could one of you kind gentlemen see this lad as far as Ballyjamesduff.

DMC

No worries, Occidental, Hi Figment.

Balladuff, as the yokels call it, is a middlling large town in Cavan, in the top 5 there. There are three ways of getting to it, either turning left (R194) at the diamond in Virginia (N3), or contunue north on the N3 towards Cavan, about 5 miles and there is a left for Ballyjamesduff. From the west, take the N55 Athlone-Cavan road, and take the R194 in Granard.

The population is around 800, its a market town, with a mart, so you are guaranteed one day a week that the main street will be covered in .... No big shakes facilities wise, no large supermarket, plenty of pubs, The Springs is not too far away... but no experience of them to say what they are like (except that the Springs was theee place when I was 16 on Saturday nights, not at 17 )

As for DSL... Haha.... Cavan town itself will be getting DSL, according to Eircom, but if any other town in Cavan gets DSL in the next 3 years, may I borrow PN's Cavan jersey and go to a Meath match in it! ISDN or 56k, mate....

Figment

Thank you

cournioni

Originally posted by DMC
Balladuff, as the yokels call it, is a middlling large town in Cavan, in the top 5 there.

Em... Sorry I have to correct you there DMC, it is'nt in the top five, it is only in the top ten and is only around the same size as Shercock tbh. Everything else is accurate.

By the way, you can have my jersey for free if you want it. I don't want to be seen in it after this years performances!

DMC

That got me wondering, PN, in a good way, so I checked out the census.

You are right, its not top 5 material, Virginia is ahead B'duff, which is now 7th behind Cavan town, Cootehill, Baileborough, Kingscourt, and Belturbet.

Shercock ranks behind Mullagh, in 12th. Mullagh ffs!

BTW, PN, it was all part of the master plan, convince Cavan GAA that a Meath man was right for the job, give them Kerrigan, with the remit to **** up Cavan GAA good and proper! Oh how we laffed at his "good" work down here!

cournioni

Originally posted by DMC
That got me wondering, PN, in a good way, so I checked out the census.

You are right, its not top 5 material, Virginia is ahead B'duff, which is now 7th behind Cavan town, Cootehill, Baileborough, Kingscourt, and Belturbet.

Shercock ranks behind Mullagh, in 12th. Mullagh ffs!

BTW, PN, it was all part of the master plan, convince Cavan GAA that a Meath man was right for the job, give them Kerrigan, with the remit to **** up Cavan GAA good and proper! Oh how we laffed at his "good" work down here!

No way! That can not be right DMC! Mullagh?! You are kidding. Seriously, There are more people in Shercock. There has to be unless they all live in the one house in Mullagh and count cows as children.

And Kerrigan is gone now thank God. But having to put up with the likes of Larry Reilly, Dermot McCabe and Anthony Forde would be enough to put anyone out of their job.

DMC

Have a shifty through this.... Page 49 of the file is what you need to look at.

cournioni

Originally posted by DMC
Have a shifty through this.... Page 49 of the file is what you need to look at.

That was a year ago DMC. There has been at least 20 houses been built in town since then. And there is six families of Phillipinos that have moved into two of those houses so that would give us an extra 20 people. So to hell with Mullagh!

And that Ballyhaise figure cannot be correct unless they're counting all the people who go to their little farming college over there. They shouldn't be in the census.

DMC

Well, technically, they should, if they stayed overnight on the census night, which is normally a Sunday.

Mullagh is being developed big time at the mo, 20 houses bulit in since 2001, PP and construction underway for 40 more.

(pause) /me is pondering why the **** I'm defending Mullagh.

Na, seriously mate, Mullagh is bigger now than Shercock. You should take a gander around. When was the last time you were in Mullagh? I was in Shercock about 2 months ago, and I wouldve said that its on a par with Mullagh.

cournioni

/me puts in planning permission for 7,000,000 houses in the Shercock area. That'll show those Mullagh bastards!

mise_me_fein

I hate Cavan, it's full of nothing but crappy little towns. It's not in the north east either.

embee

Cavans an awful hole. It is in the NorthEast though.
Kingscourt ..... where to start really?
It does nothing but rain. Theres potholes everywhere. The locals are all very strange.

mise_me_fein

louth and meath are the north east. I know some parts of Cavan appear to be close to the north east but it is known as a part of the north west like monaghan is.

Anyway it's an awful place.

cournioni

Originally posted by mise_me_fein
Anyway it's an awful place.

Where have you been to make such a hasty judgement and why do you make that judgement?

cournioni

Originally posted by embee
Cavans an awful hole. It is in the NorthEast though.
Kingscourt ..... where to start really?
It does nothing but rain. Theres potholes everywhere. The locals are all very strange.

Seems you are just going on the old stereotypes there. I can't remember seeing a pothole in Cavan in the last five years. Last time it rained was.... em I can't remember. Define "strange".

mise_me_fein

I've been to bailieboro(not too bad), canningstown(noting there - not really a town), cootehill(psycho town and bad roads on the way), shercock(need I say more) and of course kingscourt that drug spot...............i'm tellin ya it's a terrible place.

cournioni

Originally posted by mise_me_fein
I've been to bailieboro(not too bad), canningstown(noting there - not really a town), cootehill(psycho town and bad roads on the way), shercock(need I say more) and of course kingscourt that drug spot...............i'm tellin ya it's a terrible place.

Out of all of them Bailieborough is probably the worst. A terrible scumhole.

Canningstown doesn't really count at all.

I agree with your comments on Cootehill.

There is nothing wrong with Shercock. I've lived there my whole life and I've never had any problems with it.

Kingscourt is not that bad now. It used to be a terrible spot with all the drugs and that, I think that has been dealt with. The people I know from Kingscourt are sound as hell. And I know alot of people from Kingscourt.

Where do you live?

mise_me_fein

ardee

cournioni

I'm sure you have your fair share of junkies and scumbags in Ardee am I right?

mise_me_fein

Not really, it's a fairly decent town.

embee

The road from Drumcondrath to Kingscourt is full of potholes.
When you cross the border into Cavan at the level crossing, there are potholes. Dire ones.
In the winter, it rains more there than it does in other places.
Everytime Ive been in Kingscourt (which is quite a lot as my mate lives there) it has been raining.
The people are strange in that they stare at "blow-ins" (not my word, someone in Kingscourt called me that for no reason) like we have three heads. I seem to recall a woman in that POXY super valu muttering under her breath "fancy Dubliners with their big ideas" in my general direction.

I am not a Dubliner. I dont have "big ideas".

Hence - the locals are strange.

embee

Ardee doesnt have a drug problem. Most of the drugs coming into Ardee come from either Kingscourt or Dundalk. Kingscourts reputation for being rough and full of scumbags doesnt come from thin air. My uncle used to play trad sessions in Freemans in Kingscourt but has since stopped because he hates the fact that theres so many "scummy druggies" (once again, not my words) in such a tiny little village.

cournioni

Most of that Drumcondrath to Kingscourt road is in Meath. And I don't ever recall the locals in Kingscourt staring at me in a different way to any other town. They are all the same. Carrick, Kells, Dunshaughlan, Ballybay, 'Blayney etc etc.

As I have said. Kingscourt has tackled its drug problem. Meaning it isn't half as bad as it used to be.

To be honest I have not stopped off in Ardee long enough to see the sights and sounds of the place. But I'm pretty sure that it is the same as every other town in Ireland.

mise_me_fein

yeah it is the same as most towns, but most towns in Cavan are fúcked up in my opinion.......Carrick is a good town it's lively. There's nothing to talk about in Ballybay.

cournioni

To be honest, Carrickmacross I think is the main reason why Kingscourt has so many scumbags. Most of the "druggie scum" as you put it, are educated in Carrickmacross which plays a huge part in the life they live because of the friends they mix with at secondary level.

9908361u

Its unfair to judge a county on one town. Kingscourt is only a small part of cavan and shouldn't represent the whole county.

Lemlin

Lavey is great. Everyone should drink in the Bent Elbow! If you're ever there, ask for Trev!!

cournioni

Lemlin wrote:

Lavey is great. Everyone should drink in the Bent Elbow! If you're ever there, ask for Trev!!

I know a few girls from over in that direction. But more towards Clifferna... Fit.

Lemlin

In the Rudden's shop area? I know a few from there myself.

Tha Gopher

Someone (it mighta been DMC) told me that the heroin arrived in Kingscourt after a substantial mighration of Dubs to Kingscourt

Ballyduff is full of Dubs. Ditto Virginia. And Cavan has a growing number, which will grow further with the new motorway

Damn Dubs, they ruined Dublin! *

As for the Springs, it is purely the watering hole of underagers and people banned from Cavan towns main nightclubs. It is also the site where gangs from Cavan and Granard like to meet and fook each other up (i tell you, the crips and bloods have nothin on these boyos ). Lovely spot the Springs- in the last decade it has seen, from my memory, only 2 seperate murders and at least one reported rape :rolleyes: And they need to frisk ya with a metal detector at the nightclub here in Blanch?
Mind you, theres a now shutdown pub up the road from me with the same death rate, and most of the rest have seen bullets flyin in their day, but still
Ballyduff is actually one of the nicest looking villages in Cavan


As for Mullagh, someone remind me where it is. Is it a wee village somewhere in the Ballyduff Virginia/meath border area? Me and a mate were tearin the f.uck out of his car one lovely evenin last summer down the country roads of this area and couldnt believe the size of this village we found- the part which had obviously been there for years was tiny, only a few buildings, but this place was covered by litreally hundreds of brand new houses, full of bleedin Dubs id imagine




*Im from Dublin

Big Nelly

Havent been out in the Springs in years.....think there was more than 2 people killed there......bouncer that time but it was a Dub that drove over him when he got threw out.....the other time it was the Cavan Granard usual fights and they kicked his head in.....that was a long time ago when the Springs was the place to be.....everyone got in as well....15 and I was a regular........rape seemily happened at a underage disco....was on paper and all but never heard asnything more about it....the young one was hammered along with the rest of the place....no drink my ass.....was a few other thing but cant remember them...its a bit of a kip and you can never get a bus out of it......spent many a nite standing out there for 2-3 hrs trying to get a bus......even cavan town is bad for taxi on a Sat nite.......

Yeah Mullagh is just outside VIrginia....have never actually gone to the town itself but used to go to school in Virginia so was full of Mullagh heads.....they said town was abit of a kip.......loads of pubs....only one street......havent a clue myself but that what they said and they are from the town....place called rosehill is it thats the dodgy end......lol

Ballyduff as we call it is actually getting alot bigger....used to be really nothing in it but alot of housing estates been built now with the promise of the M3.....as mentioned it is really a market town.....you can go buy a cow on a tuesday in the mark.......couple of nice pubs in there and the locals are usually friendly!!!