Collon, Co Louth...feedback please

Fingers Mcginty

Well the houses seem a little cheaper than Drogheda and I'm on the lookout for another gaff. What's it like?...small village mentality or otherwise?.
Local school for the kiddies any good? Gonna be comuting to Leixlip. Best way i suppose would be up the N2 and onto Ratoath?

slumped

while Collon has developed into a busy little village, it is still widely a rural community

Commuting to Leixlip will take you approx 1 hour, best route is via Slane, then Tara, Dunsany, Batterstown (or Dunboyne) to Leixlip.

Schools are good (under parish of Ardee and Collon) although the main priest in Collon is a bore.

Shops are few and far between, Ardee and Drogheda being best places to shop.

The Forge Restaurant is very nice, if a little expensive.

Collon is a nice little town for a rural life, lots of tractors and trailers but also on the main N2 and very close to M1.

Slumped

Atomic Pineapple

theres 3 shops, a few decent pubs, watters does food too which is very nice, or was anyway i think it was takin over by someone new now, you can get your petrol there and the forge is there when you want that more expensive food, I reckon it would be a nice enough place to live, not too exciting though

lucernarian

It's not very exciting, but no place like that will be a hub of activity. There's very little social problems right now, by all accounts. You can get either phone broadband or a wireless product instead. I don't hear of any overcrowding problems in the school.

I heard that Lidl were planning a distribution centre near Collon. I'm not suprised, as Collon is in a brilliant location for road transport. On the N2, 10 minutes from the M1 and a road which brings you almost to Kells. Slane has no big traffic problems on the N2 part so commuting to Dublin or Leixlip shouldn't be too bad either.

It does have a well-knit local community but it's settled and I cannot understand why houses in Collon are a bit cheaper than the clone housing estates in Drogheda. The quality of life is twice as good as living in Drogheda IMO.

(btw I don't live in Collon. I'm in an adjoining area)

~Leanne~

To_be_confirmed wrote:

I heard that Lidl were planning a distribution centre near Collon.

Its IKEA, think they got the go ahead too.

Collon isnt a bad place, pubs are nice and has everything you need really. Drogheda only 10 mins away and your near all major routes more or less.

Fingers Mcginty

Yeah so by all accounts it seems nice.
Have my eye on the small Cloisters estate ....(The 5 bed ones up on the hill)
however 2 were sold recently and we missed out as we were holding out due to the reduction in stamp duty rumour

embee

My uncle lives in Ardee and commutes to Leixlip every day.. think it takes him a fraction over an hour everyday.

Collon is fairly dead, tbh.. there's nothing in it whatsoever. Schoolswise there are three primary schools and a secondary school in Ardee town, as well as other smaller primary schools dotted around here and there.

Fingers Mcginty

I think i'll be holding out for a stamp duty change but i think Collon is a nice little spot. Drogheda would be a tad far for secondary schools for the kids yeah?

Time Magazine

Hang on a sec, how do you pronounce this place?

Will I be adding it to the list?

Fingers Mcginty

Locals probabaly enforced it's pronounciation as CULLEN most likely due to obvious slagging

europerson

Ibid wrote:

Hang on a sec, how do you pronounce this place?

Will I be adding it to the list?

No, my dear friend, it's not pronounced like "colon", but like the surname "Cullen". The odd person says "Coll-on".

lucernarian

Secondary school kids can get to Drogheda allright. There's a bus service anyway for them. What is an issue for the teens is getting in to Drogheda at the weekends etc. As mentioned earlier, it's pretty quiet and is not ideal for socialising teens. But any countryside location has that issue to varying degrees and the Ardee-Drogheda bus helps somewhat.

And yeah, like the others said, it's "Cullen", not "Colon (farrel)", as some Ulster people call it:)

Time Magazine

Fingers Mcginty wrote:

Locals probabaly enforced it's pronounciation as CULLEN most likely due to obvious slagging

Muff, Nobber and Turbofeckin stay on their own so.

ballooba

Collon is not a bad spot. It is quiet as has already been said. Yes, it is pronounced Cullen. "Collin" sounds strange to me.

My sister and her husband commute to Leixlip from Slane every morning. I think it takes them just over an hour. Pretty stressful commute by all accounts but they like living in Slane.

europerson

Ibid wrote:

Muff, Nobber and Turbofeckin stay on their own so.

It's Termonfeckin. Almost as funny as Prosperous and Moone. Although not quite.

Time Magazine

europerson wrote:

It's Termonfeckin. Almost as funny as Prosperous and Moone. Although not quite.

Yeah I know, but I'm not the only one who thinks of other things when I hear it.

Prosperous is not that amusing at all, really. Moone you might have a point on, but it's still absolutely nothing on Muff.

Back on topic now sonny.

Dr. Nick

Collon, the IKEA hub for Ireland

Love it.

Mr. Brightside

My cousins live in Collon and I always got confused by the name cos I pronounced it as it looks and they pronounce it Cullen which appears to be the correct way. Its a pretty quiet place, I've spent a bit of time there.

Fairly windy I find though, maybe cos my cousins house has got no hedge around it and its up on a hill. Its quite near a golf course as well whose name I forget, begins with a T I think. Fairly good driving range. And theres a nice pitch and put course pretty much in the centre of the place. They're mad into their GAA as well. The church is quite nice, I've been there often whenever I stayed. Its part of Ardee parish.

I've never been to any of the pubs but thers some nice places to eat in surrounding villages and I believe the Forge is quite nice. Drogheda is a bit of a kip I think but it has its moments and theres a lot worse places to live near.

I like southern Louth anyway, theres something very sleepy about it.

lucernarian

Agree with all of the above, including the windy bit. It has an old nickname, "Cold Collon", pronounced "Cowld Cullen":) But it's grand if you're not on the peak of one of its hills.