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Roughest Flats in Dublin?

  • 16-01-2007 10:28pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34


    Out of these ten different flat complexes , which is the roughest? and ugliest?
    and if you have any storys about any of em do tell..

    Regards Sean

    Roughest Flats In Dublin? 46 votes

    Fairview flats
    0% 0 votes
    Ballymun Flats
    4% 2 votes
    St.Micheals Estate Inchicore
    19% 9 votes
    Dorset St. Flats
    17% 8 votes
    Pearse St. Flats
    4% 2 votes
    Fatima Mansions
    2% 1 vote
    Summerhill Flats?
    21% 10 votes
    O Devany Gardens
    6% 3 votes
    St. Teresa's Gardens
    15% 7 votes
    Sherrif St. Flats
    8% 4 votes


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    The ones in Summerhill are pretty naff looking. They've torn some of them down now.

    I can't say which are the roughest as I've never actually been into any of the grounds of any flats.

    I've a feeling some might take offence at this post/poll..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 brain damaged


    yeh but in general ,

    a lot of flats are rough , im just seeing which are the worst..

    no offence intended..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i dont know what they are called but the flats behind the bridge house pub in dolphins barn are very rough, you just dont go in there if you are not from the area (i work with people from the area and they told me this) and i have drank in the bridge house a few times.

    op did you vote for ballymun flats, if so did you base your vote on experience or what you have read in the media or what you have heard?
    im not starting a fight here, im just interested to know


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Dolphin House, Fatima Mansions and Oliver Bond never looked too appealing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 brain damaged


    I was in the ballymun flats once ,
    and all i can remember is how much i wanted to get out of there..
    it may not be as rough as it once was..
    but it was very rough ina certain era..
    theres still alot of shady charectars around the area too though.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    I was in the ballymun flats once ,
    and all i can remember is how much i wanted to get out of there..
    it may not be as rough as it once was..
    but its certainly very disastrous looking..

    it may look disastrous because it is a building site, but i dont think you being there once is a valid enough reason to vote for it. didnt you create a similar thread recently


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,698 ✭✭✭InFront


    Whatever the flats are that are over by St. James' Hospital. Fatima? Very dangerous in my experience, and not very easy on the eyes either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭mad m


    admiralgar wrote:
    i dont know what they are called but the flats behind the bridge house pub in dolphins barn are very rough, you just dont go in there if you are not from the area (i work with people from the area and they told me this) and i have drank in the bridge house a few times.

    Seagull house or Rutland Flats maybe?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    InFront wrote:
    Whatever the flats are that are over by St. James' Hospital. Fatima? Very dangerous in my experience, and not very easy on the eyes either.

    they have been knocked down i think. the whole area is being re-developed a la ballymun


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,512 ✭✭✭Sundy


    I worked in the council for the summer and have had the pleasure of a visit to most of them, never had a bit of trouble at any of them. Having said that i have been kinda scared a few times especially in the sherrif street area its a real getto down there.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    How nice it must be to live such a sheltered life...

    There ARE no Summerhill flats, Sheriff St flats were knocked years ago. What do you mean by 'Fairview' flats - Poplar Row or Ballybough?

    Do you see the city just from Mummy's car as she drives you home?

    Have you ever actually BEEN inside one of these flats complexes you seem to find so threatening? Do you still live with Mummy?

    'brain damaged' is right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    spurious wrote:
    How nice it must be to live such a sheltered life...

    There ARE no Summerhill flats, Sheriff St flats were knocked years ago. What do you mean by 'Fairview' flats - Poplar Row or Ballybough?

    Do you see the city just from Mummy's car as she drives you home?

    Have you ever actually BEEN inside one of these flats complexes you seem to find so threatening? Do you still live with Mummy?

    'brain damaged' is right.
    Do you live in one of the listed flats?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    No flats in Fairview and the flats in Sheriff St. and Summerhill are long gone.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    rb_ie wrote:
    Do you live in one of the listed flats?

    No I don't, but I have been in many of the complexes, including some of the ones no longer there. There were no higher proportion of idiots than we seem to have all over Dublin.

    I have met far 'rougher' characters living in 'nice' areas.

    Along with the stupid northside/southside polls and the 'what is the worst area in Dublin?' threads, this sort of poll is nonsense.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    spurious wrote:
    No I don't, but I have been in many of the complexes, including some of the ones no longer there. There were no higher proportion of idiots than we seem to have all over Dublin.

    I have met far 'rougher' characters living in 'nice' areas.

    Along with the stupid northside/southside polls and the 'what is the worst area in Dublin?' threads, this sort of poll is nonsense.
    Ah I know what you mean, a lot of people are just going to take the place on face value without having even stepped foot in it. I think its ok for people to say that certain flats are/were the ugliest in Dublin, but its impossible for anyone who hasn't been in them to say which we're/are the roughest.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    rb_ie wrote:
    I think its ok for people to say that certain flats are/were the ugliest in Dublin, but its impossible for anyone who hasn't been in them to say which we're/are the roughest.


    An 'Ugliest' flats in Dublin would be a very worthwhile thread I think. There are some shockers out there, mostly in the private sector.

    The whole area of aesthetics of buildings in Dublin is huge though, sadly for the wrong reasons. There really are some awful awful buildings out there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    Mountain View flats in Summerhill were torn down a few months back. Now that they're gone, you can clearly see the yellow block of flats behind the site. I'm not sure what they're called, or indeed if they'd even be classed as Summerhill, but they look pretty ugly.

    I remember years ago, I walked through Summerhill, not actually knowing where I was. I think it was the first time I'd seen so many run down blocks of flats in one place.

    Some look fine, but some do look fairly run down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,595 ✭✭✭johnnyrotten


    There are no flats in Fairview. Do you mean Ballybough House flats or Poplar Row flats?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 brain damaged


    Mountain View flats in Summerhill were torn down a few months back. Now that they're gone, you can clearly see the yellow block of flats behind the site. I'm not sure what they're called, or indeed if they'd even be classed as Summerhill, but they look pretty ugly.
    n.

    Fairview Flats was a typo
    i meant mountain view flats and got mixed up..
    just so you know..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭ODS


    Fairview Flats was a typo
    i meant mountain view flats and got mixed up..
    just so you know..

    Not too sure if youve done your cred too much good there OP, Mountain View flats were Summerhill...So where do you mean - Ballybough House flats or Poplar Row flats... or would you just rather tell us about the car your mummy drives? :p
    spurious wrote:
    An 'Ugliest' flats in Dublin would be a very worthwhile thread I think. There are some shockers out there, mostly in the private sector.

    The whole area of aesthetics of buildings in Dublin is huge though, sadly for the wrong reasons. There really are some awful awful buildings out there.

    Spot on. I nominate the tenement block at the top of Buckingham Street on the west side, opposite the soon to be demolished Sean Tracy House... Who owns these? theyre a flaming disgrace :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,198 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Was in one of the ballymun flats about 3 years ago - friend of mine used to live there and she had her 18th birthday there. at around 11 o'clock a couple of drunk 17 yr old girls all decided they wanted more booze (one of them being my girlfriend at the time) and i got talked into walking up as far as the towers with them - that was NOT a fun walk.

    well actually in retrospect it was hilarious, but at the time I was ****ting myself :D


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    ODS wrote:
    I nominate the tenement block at the top of Buckingham Street on the west side, opposite the soon to be demolished Sean Tracy House... Who owns these? theyre a flaming disgrace :mad:

    They used to be called Buckingham Buildings. I'm not sure if they have gentrified the name more recently. They had a bit of a refurbishment in the 80s.

    I am a teacher in the area and went to visit a child's family in them during the 80s (before refurbishment) and was shocked to see that there was just one bathroom per landing - shared among six families. I was also shown large holes rats had eaten through the bottom of the doors.

    It was (and still is) private rented accommodation. Utterly scandalous that whoever owns them is allowed have them in that state.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    These theads are nonsense, what good is going to come of this, just a few people going to have unfounded idea of what flats in dublin are rough, i work around ballybough, summerhill, parnel st 3 nights a week and never had any bother.

    Pointless.


    -VB-


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    what a bunch of snobs you are

    don't you know that these flats are only populated by 'real Dublin characters who are the salt of the earth'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    Volvoboy wrote:
    These theads are nonsense, what good is going to come of this, just a few people going to have unfounded idea of what flats in dublin are rough, i work around ballybough, summerhill, parnel st 3 nights a week and never had any bother.

    Pointless.


    -VB-

    I would have backed that up, as I walk home from Clontarf to Parnell Street via Summerhill 3 times a week.. but then I had rocks lobbed at me from a bunch of skangers, as I walked past the old MountainView site on Friday evening. Little sh*ts.
    I don't think they were actually aiming at anyone in particular.. but what do I know!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    I've never been in Pearse St flats but i know a couple from there(the man being a well paid bus driver) and they are just like you or me, they dont fit into the stereo-typing of 'tracksuit wearing goldchain plated scangers from flats'.

    If you met them on the street, you would think they were from any area, point being..they are just like anyone, bad apples are found everywhere.

    I've been to flat complexes in ringsend where i know another couple, place is as safe as houses, managed by residents with fully intact playgrounds for kids to play with cctv, no danger whatsover to the visitor who has this 'prejudged fear of complexes and the people who lives in them'
    And yes to the ignorant, vast majority of residents have jobs and drive cars just like we do!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Well noone's saying that everyone who lives in flats is a scumbag. It's the minority, which decides whether a place is rough or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,416 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    How many of these threads are gonna come up? There must be at least one a week all usually along the lines "I was in (insert area name) a few years ago and saw somebody shooting up/burned out car/fight/etc." Pointless stuff


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    I walked past the Summerhill flats and the Ballybough flats (both now demolished) twice a day every day for a year and I never ever got any hassle. Saying that the buildings were in sh!t, and there were a lot of junkies around the Mountain View Court complex and Summerhill complex, and a lot of the local kids had created a sport out of throwing rocks at buses and cars.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Katykaboom


    Then theres Kilmore flats... I have friends who live in a few different flat complexes... ballybough house, ballymun, sean o casey avenue, and the only thing Im afraid of when I go in there is the kids. I got a lighter to the head the last time I went into Ballybough house, and another time a glass bottle was dropped off the second flor inches from me, all done by the childers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭Katykaboom


    Nightwish wrote:
    I walked past the Summerhill flats and the Ballybough flats (both now demolished) twice a day every day for a year and I never ever got any hassle. Saying that the buildings were in sh!t, and there were a lot of junkies around the Mountain View Court complex and Summerhill complex, and a lot of the local kids had created a sport out of throwing rocks at buses and cars.

    There are till flats in Ballybough, they were only partly torn down, and yeah I got a grapefruit thrown at the bus I was on one day from the flats smashed the window, all over some granny (that was a particularly traumatic day, Id just switched buses about 3 minutes earlier because the last bus I was on hit someone)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 Dermo_


    Im Dermot And Im 16 And Have Come Across This Convo. Randomly And I Had To Make A ACccount . Everyone In This Conversation Is Either Stuck Up Or Does Not Have A Clue About Dublin !. I Have Lived In O Devaney And Fatima And Am Currently Living In Hardwicke St Flats Off Dorset St . All Area's Where Fine And Are Fine . Its Not How **** The Flats Look Or What Area They Are In , Its The People And You People Just Dont Have A Clue , You Make Me Sick With Your " We Are Better Then People Living In Flats Attitude " Get A Grip .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    Resurrecting a 2 year old thread that deserved to die...? I sense a lock a-coming!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,817 ✭✭✭pebbles21


    What floor you on?Dermo?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Go out the road from the town centre towards the mental hospital and before that there's a side road on the right called Rosemount Estate. Go straight up that road until you get to the football field on the left. On the right side of the road there some nice houses but behind these are three blocks of five-story flats and they're really ugly!


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