Magic Road

Lost Angel

Anybody been to the magic road in dundalk.
Magic as in things supposedly roll up it and so on.
Am going up there for the spin tomorrow and thought someone might have a story to share.

c - 13

Theres one in the Comeragh mountains in waterford too.

Stop your car at the end, take it out of gear and handbrake off, car rolls backwards up the hill. People say its an optical illusion but its cool all the same.

drunkmonkey

There's one at the back of Tallaght on the way to Jonny Foxes, would never have believed if I wasn't behind the wheel at the time...
It's at a look out spot there...

I parked the car about half way down the hill, put it in newtral and the car started going backwards up the hill....amazing....there are really magic roads out there....
There were 5 people in the car at the time...

this was on the way to Jonny Foxes not on the way back...

stevenmu

I've heard of quite a few of them around the country. As far as I know they're all optical illusions, but would be very cool anyway.

drunkmonkey

stevenmu wrote: »

I've heard of quite a few of them around the country. As far as I know they're all optical illusions, but would be very cool anyway.

The one I was on most definatly wasn't an optical illusion, the car physically went backwards up the hill with 5 people on board , I had to put my foot on the brake to stop me going backwards out on to the main road...the car was in neutral the whole time...

The one on the was to Jonny Foxes is real!!

Martron

i was doing some work in tipperary where there was a local "magic road" water looked liked it flowed up hill. so with a few minutes spare i took out my equipment and the hill was certainly not magic. it was an optical illusion formed by the road markings.

drunkmonkey

That's not called the magic road, it's the magic river, depending on where your looking from the water flows both ways...that's an illusion.....there's a haunted gate just up the road from it......

Duff

The one around Dundalk is called the long womans grave. Its out the Cooley direction, Jenkinstown I think.Its not on optical illusion, the car actually does move backwards up the hill.

artieanna

These 'magic' roads are in fact lengths of road that appear to be uphill if you were to check these roads with a level you would realise that there is in fact no rise in the road.

check this out
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=f3A4CRoQA3A&feature=related

Riamfada

Google maps folks! I wana try this out for the giggles

drunkmonkey

artieanna wrote: »

These 'magic' roads are in fact lengths of road that appear to be uphill if you were to check these roads with a level you would realise that there is in fact no rise in the road.

Your wrong, the one at Jonny Foxes is definatley not level, if you park your car at the top of the hill it will roll down and smash through a ditch....If you stop half way down the hill the car rolls back up.....it's magic...believe!! I'm not making this up:mad:

Ostrom

When I was in WIT the civil engineers levelled the Comeragh road and it was sloping down (appearantly it slopes upward toward the mountains). It was around 2005 I think, its probably archived at tm archives. I can name the supervising lecturer but I'm not sure if its allowed....? (In case anyone wanted to email?)

iamhunted

drunkmonkey wrote: »

The one I was on most definatly wasn't an optical illusion, the car physically went backwards up the hill with 5 people on board , I had to put my foot on the brake to stop me going backwards out on to the main road...the car was in neutral the whole time...

The one on the was to Jonny Foxes is real!!

fraid to say they are optical illusions. I grew up in tyrone and theres a 'magnetic hill' just outside gortin in the sperrin mountains. at primary school as part of a project we went there and done various measurements (i have no idea how exactly we went about it as the teacher was doing the instructing) and found that even though the hill looked like a hill, what looked like going up was actuallky the other way around.

the illusion is caused by surrounding ground.

The most important factor contributing to the illusion is a completely or mostly obstructed horizon; without a horizon, judging the slope of a surface is difficult as a reliable reference is missing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_hill

Big Knox

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Your wrong, the one at Jonny Foxes is definatley not level, if you park your car at the top of the hill it will roll down and smash through a ditch....If you stop half way down the hill the car rolls back up.....it's magic...believe!! I'm not making this up:mad:

No seriously ITS MAGIC!!! Did you see any leprauchauns while you were defying gravity on this magic hill?? :rolleyes:

Theres a really decieving one in the comeragh mountains in waterford, have to say first time round it was quite a shock, it does appear to be rolling up hill and it picks up a fair speed too. Pretty cool to freak out the less suspecting people in the car!! :pac:

bamboozle

the one up in louth causes cars to roll up hill cause of magnetic plates underground....so i'm told

Skeptic_Desu

There's one near Portlaois.
Me and some friends had great crack on it.
Nice little park by the river next to it.

drunkmonkey

where is it exactly?

Skeptic_Desu

Slieve Bloom i think it is.
Ain't been there in ages though so i couldn't give you directions

kevpants

bamboozle wrote: »

the one up in louth causes cars to roll up hill cause of magnetic plates underground....so i'm told

Never underestimate the power of us Irish to talk complete bollox. That hill IS downhill. You roll down a hill. It looks uphill from your perspective because you are coming down a steeper bit of hill. It is still downhill. Bring a spirit (ooooooh spooooooky!) level with you and lay it on the ground. The bubble never lies.

Ostrom

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Your wrong, the one at Jonny Foxes is definatley not level, if you park your car at the top of the hill it will roll down and smash through a ditch....If you stop half way down the hill the car rolls back up.....it's magic...believe!! I'm not making this up:mad:

Its a real illusion. If its magic then someone better call a physicist

And its not magnetism or else there would be pacemaker warnings within 2km of every mountain range

drunkmonkey

efla wrote: »

Its a real illusion. If its magic then someone better call a physicist

And its not magnetism or else there would be pacemaker warnings within 2km of every mountain range

it is real.....don't believe me try it, i'll have a big piece of humble pie waiting for you when you roll back up the hill....

Some things you just can't explain, you've just got to have faith and take it at face value...;)

iamhunted

honestly - these things are illusions. as mentioned above - bring a spirit level next time you go there.

Ostrom

drunkmonkey wrote: »

it is real.....don't believe me try it, i'll have a big piece of humble pie waiting for you when you roll back up the hill....

Some things you just can't explain, you've just got to have faith and take it at face value...;)

Nothing would satisfy me more than some nice humble pie, but please, take the level and see! Anything capable of producing that kind of real world effect would be studied to death or adapted for some other use. I'll gladly eat my hat with some pie if wrong

drunkmonkey

efla wrote: »

Nothing would satisfy me more than some nice humble pie, but please, take the level and see! Anything capable of producing that kind of real world effect would be studied to death or adapted for some other use. I'll gladly eat my hat with some pie if wrong

I don't know when i'm going to be near there next, I can assure you the road is not level there, it is most definatly a hill, the car will roll staight down and gather speed going down the hill, if you park at the bottom of it nothing happens but if you park at one specific spot the car will go backwards up the hill, it's not an optical illusion here, I think it's magnetic, your fairly high up, close to the sea and there's a river under the road......it shoud be studied, but how may people know it's there??

Skeptic_Desu

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I don't know when i'm going to be near there next, I can assure you the road is not level there, it is most definatly a hill, the car will roll staight down and gather speed going down the hill, if you park at the bottom of it nothing happens but if you park at one specific spot the car will go backwards up the hill, it's not an optical illusion here, I think it's magnetic, your fairly high up, close to the sea and there's a river under the road......it shoud be studied, but how may people know it's there??

Dude seriously, as has been mentioned, if there was a magnetic field there strong enough to move a car you'd feel it in your fillings, not to mention kill anyone with a pacemaker.

drunkmonkey

Ok nobody believes me, what a bunch of sceptics..

has anyone else driven the magic road at the lookout on the way to Jonny Foxes, Will someone confirm that the road is not level, it's a hill, I think I know the differece at this stage, i've seen others that are optical illusions but this is 100% a hill and a steep one at that.....

Someone please confirm, there's a lot of people dismissing something they've never even seen.....

Skeptic_Desu

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Ok nobody believes me, what a bunch of sceptics..

has anyone else driven the magic road at the lookout on the way to Jonny Foxes, Will someone confirm that the road is not level, it's a hill, I think I know the differece at this stage, i've seen others that are optical illusions but this is 100% a hill and a steep one at that.....

Someone please confirm, there's a lot of people dismissing something they've never even seen.....

But I have been at one out by Portlaois.
I can assure you, I felt nothing in my fillings

iamhunted

not only have i seen a magnetic hill but i also attacked it with a spirit level. it looked like a hill as it looked like it went downwards, but the spiritlevel said it went the other way. its a hard one to get yer head around alright but basically the surrounding countryside is at an angle and gives the illusion that the 'hill' is going downhill when it isnt

iamhunted

Skeptic_Desu wrote: »

But I have been at one out by Portlaois.
I can assure you, I felt nothing in my fillings

it's spelled 'portlaoise' just so you know

monkeyfudge

I was introduced to a magic road in Brazil. Can't say I was terribly impressed.

Ostrom

I've seen them, experienced the Waterford one in a car, then watched my old surveying lecturer go out, level the entire road, publish the results in the local newspaper and disprove it.

Get yourself a clinometer (outdoor shop should have a cheap plastic one) and a ranging rod (or any kind of stick) and check it out.

You will probably find many have been done before, they make interesting exercises for land surveying students

turly

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Ok nobody believes me, what a bunch of sceptics..

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof...

April Raine

drunkmonkey wrote: »

The one I was on most definatly wasn't an optical illusion, the car physically went backwards up the hill with 5 people on board , I had to put my foot on the brake to stop me going backwards out on to the main road...the car was in neutral the whole time...

The one on the was to Jonny Foxes is real!!

The illusion is that the car appears to go uphill, it is really going downhil but seems to be uphill. I think its because of the way the road is built into the mountain at least in waterford where it was confirmed by council to be an illusion

vincenzo1975

I was on the road in Dundalk, Its out past the ballymacscanlon hotel, If yuo want to try it, just stop around there and ask directions.

The car rolled up the hill, but when water was poured on it, it trickled in the opposite direction. It was a very wierd experience.

It was actually on Ripleys believe it or not when jack Palance did the show..

April Raine

vincenzo1975 wrote: »

The car rolled up the hill, but when water was poured on it, it trickled in the opposite direction. It was a very wierd experience.

Weird, in Waterford the water flows the same way as the car moves. Any explanation, did you ever ask council

DundalkDuffman

vincenzo1975 wrote: »

I was on the road in Dundalk, Its out past the ballymacscanlon hotel, If yuo want to try it, just stop around there and ask directions.

The car rolled up the hill, but when water was poured on it, it trickled in the opposite direction. It was a very wierd experience.

It was actually on Ripleys believe it or not when jack Palance did the show..

Its on the Dundalk-Omeath mountain road at Jenkinstown, take the next left turn after Bellurgan United football grounds signed Omeath. This takes you to Jenkinstown Cross (less than a mile) Its right up that road at the first dip on the hill at the water reservoir, best to turn back toward Dundalk bay, engine off and car into neutral. There really should be some sort of sign at it but wasn't last time I drove by.

JangoFett

c - 13 wrote: »

Theres one in the Comeragh mountains in waterford too.

Stop your car at the end, take it out of gear and handbrake off, car rolls backwards up the hill. People say its an optical illusion but its cool all the same.

I was on it on Sunday. The magic of optical illusions, how I enjoy them!

Whatsyourface

I wannago to the waterford one... Badly!!

Fuzzy Clam

Oh yis of little faith !

Proof of the existence of magic roads can be found in an episode of Father Ted entitled "Hell".
Father Jack travells uphill in his wheelchair.

So there!

Whatsyourface

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Oh yis of little faith !

Proof of the existence of magic roads can be found in an episode of Father Ted entitled "Hell".
Father Jack travells uphill in his wheelchair.

So there!

True words spoken there - its been proven by a preist!

antodeco

Anyone got any co-ordinates for the one in Tallaght? Would like to try it

Genghiz Cohen

antodeco wrote: »

Anyone got any co-ordinates for the one in Tallaght? Would like to try it

Ditto the Portlaoise one.

Ziycon

antodeco wrote: »

Anyone got any co-ordinates for the one in Tallaght? Would like to try it

Its at view point, the road that leads down away from view point just in front of the carpark.

Its the road to the right of the destination marker.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Ballycullen+Rd&daddr=R115%2FStocking+Ln&hl=en&geocode=Fc7yLAMdZH-f_w%3BFSNgLAMd9Y6f_w&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=14&sll=53.285589,-6.326151&sspn=0.02699,0.066175&ie=UTF8&ll=53.263467,-6.307011&spn=0.054008,0.132351&t=k&z=13

bigdogbarking

nothing to do with magic faeries or magnetic plates or whatever, "they" did a lot of testing at dundalk in the 70's afaik. its just an illusion, something to do with a hill on a hill??

Either way though,it is f**king cool,and it has to be seen to be believed, never tried water on it but you can put a football on it and see it roll up the hill, just like magic

Just be careful, its on a dangerous bend, cars do tend to speed around the corner.

snow ghost

Last time I was on one of these so called 'Magic Roads', I parked up, whipped the spirit level out of the boot and stuck it down on the road... to my horror the spirit level started moving slowly up the hill.

Pot Noodle =

Spelga Dam has one in Co Down heard it on Liveline

sierra117x

im heading to the one in johhny foxes tonight ill bring some esentials like balls and spirit levels and see how it goes

maccored

Fact or Faked Series 1 Ep 5 proves, step by step, that such 'magic roads' are most certainly an optical illusion. Their study of the story of the school bus and the train in America, where the kids apparently push cars over the tracks show that its not uphill at all - in fact 1 degree downhill.

Hootanany

maccored wrote: »

Fact or Faked Series 1 Ep 5 proves, step by step, that such 'magic roads' are most certainly an optical illusion. Their study of the story of the school bus and the train in America, where the kids apparently push cars over the tracks show that its not uphill at all - in fact 1 degree downhill.

Link please

maccored

Dont be so lazy - Im sure you can find it if you goggle.

lisij

can some one point me where's exactly is this magic road in waterford, a simple point on the map would be much appreciated, thanx