urban exploration

blackoutbunny

are there people on here that are into urban exploration?
i have visit many old houses and abandoned buildings like brewery's and asylums to do photographic work. Im around Cork now if anybodys interested in doing some? Or wants to exchange info on buildings in this country?!

elven

Would love to but not too hot on the old trespassing/danger of serious injury involved

GristlyEnd

It's something I would love to do as well. In fact I will be heading down to Cork soon after seeing photos of an abandoned railway station.

magicbastarder

most old buildings in ireland have been knocked or turned into apartments.

blackoutbunny

yeah i heard about them from a friend a while back and then i asked a cab driver who gave me the whole history behind them!! nice guy indeed and that definately a place when i will be going soon too, there are a few i guess state owned buildings ive gotten into that are close to the city. i can post pics when i get home- but no doubt they will be sold for some kind of development pretty soon
this is a great link for a guy who does something similar-

http://www.abandonedpast.co.uk/

i use the images i collect themselves and print them up in the dark room, do print making with them and try to create installations with things that are left behind that are like fragments of somebody's personal past. i do digital/video work in some sites depending on whats relevent.

if you let me know when your coming i might be able to bring you to parts of the old station or just give u more info on it?

L1011

I'd see myself as "in to it" but not actively doing it much. Theres very little improperly secured in Leinster, theres very few people doing it, and its a bit more illegal here than the UK... and I've not done it for absolutely ages.

Will try to dig up some photos from a few years ago here later, but they're on transparencies and my scanner is atrocious. Improperly corrected colours here we come!

www.28dayslater.co.uk gets a lot of people who do it for the photography angle (as well as those who do it for the thrill/the hobby and don't really care about photography or documenting stuff).

blackoutbunny

MYOB wrote: »

I'd see myself as "in to it" but not actively doing it much. Theres very little improperly secured in Leinster, theres very few people doing it, and its a bit more illegal here than the UK... and I've not done it for absolutely ages.

Will try to dig up some photos from a few years ago here later, but they're on transparencies and my scanner is atrocious. Improperly corrected colours here we come!

www.28dayslater.co.uk gets a lot of people who do it for the photography angle (as well as those who do it for the thrill/the hobby and don't really care about photography or documenting stuff).

oh cool i would love to see what you have done! im not sure about how illegal it is exactly....but i had always thought a bit of friendly banter and armed with my 3 camera's and god know's what else, and i wouldnt ever get into too much trouble!!(she hopes!) im sure it would make a nice change from the packs of scumbags that also tend to seek out similar places to drink and do awful tags!

i was in a beautiful old warehouse a few weeks ago and the front door was just left open!i took a lot of pictures of all the textures and the retro machine fittings and fixtures. upstairs i found a beautiful old hand drawn plan left in a pile or rubbish and rat killer! made a lot of prints with the design in the end.
there were plans of proposed buildings for the city - right on the water that never happened. though it was great seeing this futureistic cork stuck amongst the reminents of the past

L1011

In Ireland, for just entering and photographing:
Civil issue if on most lands
Criminal on railways/legally active former railways and military land

But if someone says you were causing them fear (!) / caused damage / etc it gets messy. Very messy. I've had to reason with a garda over it before and thats never fun! I make sure not to have anything even approaching a tool or weapon on me, including lighters (arsonists), just the camera, phone and car keys...

elven

blackoutbunny wrote: »

create installations with things that are left behind that are like fragments of somebody's personal past.

That sounds fantastic.

rymus

if you're doing a few around Cork give me a shout, I wouldn't mind tagging along.

Sebzy

Would be up for exchanging lists for sure.

Just uploaded 400 images from a urban decay project which is still under development.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiandooris/

Still have to sort them into groups/sets

Masada

urbex is something im eager to give a go but cant find any decent locations, anyone got any reccomendations in dublin?
love some of the stuff you got there sebzy, although some of them might work better in colour imo.,
i like the thought of night time ones with low light and in colour.,:)

Sebzy

vtec wrote: »

love some of the stuff you got there sebzy, although some of them might work better in colour imo.,

Well never been one for colour but do think a lot of them are too dark so might re-visit when i get some time.

Urban Ex is best done in pairs any more and it looks very suspicious.

Dragan

To be honest i had never even thought about it. Fantastic idea though and something i will definitely look into.

Thank you very much for posting.

evilhomer

Just wear a Hard Hat and no one will even look twice. (unless there is a security guard / owner near by)

I quite like it, but as some have said, not too many places in Dublin to explore.

Of course I'm open to correction on this.

blackoutbunny

elven wrote: »

That sounds fantastic.

yup some times its hard to detach the buildings with the people who once occupied them,like in the asylums or old houses.
once came across a house that ended up being as much about the people who lived there as the building, pics from 1910, negatives, telegrammes when the sons joined the army, some of the girls went off to be teachers, there were photos of this journey, letters ect. the last sister was put in a home and when she died all the stuff was destroyed , broken or covered in rat poison. pity whoever got the place didnt have the respect for there past lives as they obviously did, we left it as it was, the vinyl clothes in the wardrope, the pics of jfk and jesus all over the walls, that had layers and layers of paper plastered over each other- years of different looks of the place peeling down. a bit ceepty but cool old house, i imagine its all gone to rot now though

blackoutbunny

rymus wrote: »

if you're doing a few around Cork give me a shout, I wouldn't mind tagging along.

yeah cool, i'll prob venture out again either sat or sun, i'll be in touch and let you know where we are going so.

rahtkennades

blackoutbunny wrote: »

yup some times its hard to detach the buildings with the people who once occupied them,like in the asylums or old houses.
once came across a house that ended up being as much about the people who lived there as the building, pics from 1910, negatives, telegrammes when the sons joined the army, some of the girls went off to be teachers, there were photos of this journey, letters ect. the last sister was put in a home and when she died all the stuff was destroyed , broken or covered in rat poison. pity whoever got the place didnt have the respect for there past lives as they obviously did, we left it as it was, the vinyl clothes in the wardrope, the pics of jfk and jesus all over the walls, that had layers and layers of paper plastered over each other- years of different looks of the place peeling down. a bit ceepty but cool old house, i imagine its all gone to rot now though

God that's just a bit depressing really. Not sure I want to end up being forgotten except for somebody poking around in my abandoned 'stuff'.

Good to hear somebody is remembering it though blackoutbunny.

blackoutbunny

Sebzy wrote: »

Would be up for exchanging lists for sure.

Just uploaded 400 images from a urban decay project which is still under development.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiandooris/

Still have to sort them into groups/sets

cool, are your pics from cork? you have some really interesting there but a tiny bit of advice would be careful with the shadow tool when editing, it shows up around the edges a lot which can also look great but not on a lot of different pics, when i take digital pics and convert them to black and white they always look too grey. when i hand print i use filters to get high contrast so when i digitaly alter prints to B&W i use the tool a lot also to try get more of a punch!!

in the coming week i will be going to parts of that old abandoned railway, back to the asylum and an old storehouse if you are interested in any of these?

Rojo

I'm really interested!!! Are all those photos from the same building? The outside of it looks great - love the shattered glass.

blackoutbunny

rahtkennades wrote: »

God that's just a bit depressing really. Not sure I want to end up being forgotten except for somebody poking around in my abandoned 'stuff'.

Good to hear somebody is remembering it though blackoutbunny.

yup thats makes another argument, if u take some negatives...even if they are left in rot and from 1910...is it salvage or still some kind of identity theft? and being house in a small town in tipp i very much doubt my artistic vision would be apprecited at all!!! but i wanted to be respectful towards them in my own way, they had kept such small momento's for their entire lifetime. it was so sad to see it all just treated with such disregard.
the photos were great--- victorinna style hair in some and stark stiff clothing ,,,some were taken on a beach, men in full suits, women in beautiful attire and what must have been the best staying pin curls ever!! a bygone era of this country we fix up one old large format enlarger in college and were acually able to make prints from some of the negatives!

blackoutbunny

Rojo wrote: »

I'm really interested!!! Are all those photos from the same building? The outside of it looks great - love the shattered glass.

yup its was lovely gothic inspired mental institution, unfortnely even this part of it is now being turned into flats despite being a land mark of building. A lot of buildings that should have been protected have be bought up for purposes of 'development'. I was sickened when the land the tower is on was sold for flats and their answer for protecting and retoring it was to paint it bright white! very inkeeping with the era i dont think!!
some of those developers must have some seriously deep pockets to get away with this kind of lunacy!!!

I'd be in the same boat as MYOB,as in I've visited a couple of places in the past but haven't done much recently.I'll have to get back out there again.Nice shots of the asylum by the way.I'd love to see some more shots of the other places you've found.By the way I'm pretty sure there's an old magdalene laundry down in Cork somewhere behind a school.A bit of research might dig something up.Visiting it would certainly be an experience after knowing what went on there.

P.S Myob: Scummy (Lets hope you have a good memory or you're going to think I'm completely mad!)

bradnailer

Nice collection of shots,missed them when they were up first

blackoutbunny

this weekend i will be setting out to photograph the old abandoned railroad system in cork, i'll be talking pics just outside the city and visiting some of the old stations in west cork afterwards if anyone in the cork area would like to tag alone i'll be heading out early sat.

blackoutbunny

Rojo wrote: »

I'm really interested!!! Are all those photos from the same building? The outside of it looks great - love the shattered glass.

yup its an old asylum

You probably already know about this but if you follow the line to Ballinhassig there's a 1km long disused railway tunnel around there.There are some high res shots of the entrance and exits on google earth.

rymus

bloody hell.. why am I only finding out about this tunnel now?

Drove by the viaduct the other day and it rekindled my interest in climbing up there.

Must have a look on google earth for that tunnel.

Edit; Had a look, can't find anything. Care to give coordinates to the tunnel?

edit again; never mind, found it

amcinroy

Great stuff blackoutbunny. This kind of stuff really intrigues me and your images are very dark and moody.

I have done something like this up in Donegal in an old abandoned military fort.



You can see the whole portfolio here
http://www.andymcinroy.com/4port.htm

Andy

Rojo

blackoutbunny wrote: »

yup its an old asylum

Very cool! People should start posting up GPS co-ordinates or something! Wouldn't mind taking a trip to these places.

rymus

Fort Dunree is a bloody mad place. I could have spent the whole day there walking around among the abandoned buildings.

GPS coordinates is a spiffing idea.

Rojo

rymus wrote: »

Fort Dunree is a bloody mad place. I could have spent the whole day there walking around among the abandoned buildings.

GPS coordinates is a spiffing idea.

I'm pretty sure somebody else came up with the idea in another thread a while back - so not my idea, but it is rather good!

Sebzy

Well a link to google maps is pretty much bang on most times.

Just 4 locations I've visited as a part of an ongoing project.

Phoenix Park Magazine Fort
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiandooris/sets/72157604002713223/
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.348925,-6.316018&spn=0.002155,0.005021&t=h&z=18

Dún Laoghaire Baths And Rainbow Rapids
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiandooris/sets/72157603998798716/
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.290915,-6.127684&spn=0.002158,0.005021&t=h&z=18

Blackrock Baths
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiandooris/sets/72157603998800752/
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.303195,-6.178131&spn=0.002157,0.005021&t=h&z=18

Killashandra Convent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastiandooris/sets/72157604002716517/
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Killashandra+&sll=53.290915,-6.127684&sspn=0.002158,0.005021&ie=UTF8&ll=54.024083,-7.531729&spn=0.016967,0.040169&z=15

rymus

my interest is sufficiently aroused. I think I'll head up to Sundays Well on Saturday and see about having a poke around St. Annes.

Apologies Rymus I skimmed over it in google earth a while back and forgot about it.I found this useful site a while back aswell,using the advanced search just look for mills and schools in your area.Not much of Munster is on it unfortunately (just the cities) but basically all of Leinster is.

http://www.buildingsofireland.com/Surveys/Buildings/

And if anyones heading up to Dunree Fort there are 3 other smaller abandoned forts in the area which may be worth a look (Lenan,Ned's Point and Inch)

Oriel

elven wrote: »

Would love to but not too hot

Ach, I'm sure we can all see past that - it's the photography that counts after all!
Seriously though, I'd be interested in stuff like that, but I wouldn't do it alone, and I'm all the way up north.

Sebzy

Was up in Droheda today doing a bit of poking around.





Will upload full size sometime soon but now now.

rymus

lovely stuff.. Is that the building on the Slane road?

went up to St. Annes myself today too. Got into one of the boiler rooms but didnt have a torch with me so didnt venture too far into the darkness. The only way into the main building is quite dodgy (few old planks with a wooden board thrown over it). Didn't think it'd take my weight and didnt fancy the 20ft drop below it so didn't chance it. Will have to go back up with a torch.

Fajitas!

I do quite like my urban exploration...

If anyone's heading off anywhere, and needs company, I'm up for it.

Oriel, there's quite a few places up north, 28dayslater.co.uk has a good few old military sites on it.

Nice Sebzy,can't wait to see the high res versions.

rymus

threw up a few from my short and not too eventful trip to St. Annes http://flickr.com/photos/rymus/sets/72157604083357557/

silverstealth

rymus wrote: »

threw up a few from my short and not too eventful trip to St. Annes http://flickr.com/photos/rymus/sets/72157604083357557/

That place looks excellent, how big is the site.?

I have been into urban exploring for a while now. www.silverstealth.co.uk this is my exploring page, be sure to hit the more collections link at the bottom of the page. And this is a site dedicated to high royds a former lunatic asylum www.highroydshospital.co.uk I have documented this place from top to bottom.



This is the fabulous double aspect corridor at high royds.

I would like to get over to Ireland soon, I live in tenby south wales so its just a ferry trip. any help on asylum locations or abandonded hopsitals, swimming pools, etc would be really appreciated.

Roen

Wow, deadly shot Silver. If you make it down Waterford way be sure to drop me a line!

Most of the places I know here are fenced off and secured I have to admit, the country has become extremely litigious in the past 15 years or so.
Would be on for a bit of an adventure all the same though.

silverstealth

Roen wrote: »

Wow, deadly shot Silver. If you make it down Waterford way be sure to drop me a line!

Most of the places I know here are fenced off and secured I have to admit, the country has become extremely litigious in the past 15 years or so.
Would be on for a bit of an adventure all the same though.

Thanks for that, one of the places that interests me is Wexford County workhouse at Enniscorthy it evolved into the Wexford County Lunatic Asylum. Does any one have any idea as to the present status..

Roen

I know the building alright, but haven't been there that much. I'll make a few calls.

**EDIT** Still in business I'm afraid. It's a working hospital.

silverstealth

Roen wrote: »

I know the building alright, but haven't been there that much. I'll make a few calls.

Thanks for that..

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Enniscorthy/Enniscorthy7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Enniscorthy/&h=211&w=718&sz=25&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=obeL80eDxEOohM:&tbnh=41&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwexford%2Bcounty%2Blunatic%2Basylum%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

have a look at the link its at the bottom, its dated 2002. it looks really impressive.

silverstealth

Roen wrote: »

I know the building alright, but haven't been there that much. I'll make a few calls.

**EDIT** Still in business I'm afraid. It's a working hospital.

Is it fully operational, looks like the workhouse in your county is converted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlnwx2xijuk

Roen

I was in that place years ago. The guy who owned it was dealing heavy plant out of the courtyard, but that must have been 8 or 9 years ago. It was derelict then and I was talking to him about what he was going to do with the place, he had no ideas.

I had a good walk around the place, and it was pretty impressive, but a bit too clean for urbex if you know what I mean. I had no idea it was done up to the extant shown in the video.

silverstealth

Roen wrote: »

I was in that place years ago. The guy who owned it was dealing heavy plant out of the courtyard, but that must have been 8 or 9 years ago. It was derelict then and I was talking to him about what he was going to do with the place, he had no ideas.

I had a good walk around the place, and it was pretty impressive, but a bit too clean for urbex if you know what I mean. I had no idea it was done up to the extant shown in the video.

Stuff seems to get converted very quickly these days.. :mad:

Cabaal

Locally (Kilkenny) all I know of is an old workhouse, not yet converted to anything as such, opart of it is still used as a house, storage sheds and cow sheds, lovely old place

I went a took a few photos of it a few weeks back most get around to processed them, after looking at photos from lost america I have to say I'd also like to join anyone visiting any places...especially around Waterford as its where I;m living at present

silverstealth

Cabaal wrote: »

Locally (Kilkenny) all I know of is an old workhouse, not yet converted to anything as such, opart of it is still used as a house, storage sheds and cow sheds, lovely old place

I went a took a few photos of it a few weeks back most get around to processed them, after looking at photos from lost america I have to say I'd also like to join anyone visiting any places...especially around Waterford as its where I;m living at present

Sounds good lets get something organised..