GENERAL DUNDALK CHAT.

HELLO ALL,:D

i thought i'd start this thread and just see how it goes.

so here goes

anyone know whats happening with the old greenore train station building on quay street opposite the greenore pub? i see a new roof has gone on it recently and its covered in scaffolding. i assume its a protected building??

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I think it's a protected building but the latest is that they have scaffolding all around it and have put a new roof on it. Watch this space for any braking developments!
:P

WOWZERS this thread is really takin off. its just what i dreamed of

Mr Magnolia

LOL

Moved this into Louth for you. Don't think the main forum gets much traffic since the county fora were created.

Must have a look at that old station, don't think I noticed the work.

sudzs

Don't know anything about the old Greenore train station building so am veering wildly off topic here to tell you about the amazing tea and coffee shop I stumbled across the other day!

There's an amazing selection of teas and coffees! Black tea, green tea, white tea, rooibos teahoneybush tea, herbal tea.... and all sorts of different coffee beans they will grind for you if you want!

I got one of the Rooibos teas called "Happines Tea" and it did indeed make me happy! Will be going back soon to try some others!

It's called Gurmans and you'll find it amongst that row of shops they call Demense Shopping Centre, where the fishing tackle shop is... near Park Street... sorry, I'm terrible at directions!

Anyway, if you like tea and coffee check it out!

DundalkDuffman

sudzs wrote: »

It's called Gurmans and you'll find it amongst that row of shops they call Demense Shopping Centre, where the fishing tackle shop is... near Park Street... sorry, I'm terrible at directions!

Called the Short Walk, its the wee bit before the Long Walk

sudzs

sudzs wrote: »

Don't know anything about the old Greenore train station building so am veering wildly off topic here to tell you about the amazing tea and coffee shop I stumbled across the other day!

There's an amazing selection of teas and coffees! Black tea, green tea, white tea, rooibos teahoneybush tea, herbal tea.... and all sorts of different coffee beans they will grind for you if you want!

I got one of the Rooibos teas called "Happines Tea" and it did indeed make me happy! Will be going back soon to try some others!

It's called Gurmans and you'll find it amongst that row of shops they call Demense Shopping Centre, where the fishing tackle shop is... near Park Street... sorry, I'm terrible at directions!

Anyway, if you like tea and coffee check it out!

the missus got me some stuff from there. the gold tea and magic tea are superduper.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

Called the Short Walk, its the wee bit before the Long Walk

You may call it the Short walk but it is, and has been for generations, called the Demense.

DundalkDuffman

Colson Ugly Officer wrote: »

You may call it the Short walk but it is, and has been for generations, called the Demense.

I would call it the Demesne and only got the Short Walk from both of my grandfathers so its around a while

cargo

Back on topic, I heard it's a solicitors office going into that building opposite the Greenore Bar.

cargo

cargo wrote: »

Back on topic, I heard it's a solicitors office going into that building opposite the Greenore Bar.

HHHHMMMMMM interesting. a solicitor will never be short of business down the quay, i speak from experience.:D

thats interesting about the 'short walk'. isnt there an area in town known as 'the gut'? anyone know where and why????

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Deleted User wrote: »

isnt there an area in town known as 'the gut'? anyone know where and why????

Williamsons Place off Park St is the gut. So called because it is so narrow.

Defenders Row was once called Squeeze Gut Alley for the same reason (although it is actually wider nowadays)

Colson Ugly Officer

Colson Ugly Officer wrote: »

Williamsons Place off Park St is the gut. So called because it is so narrow.

Defenders Row was once called Squeeze Gut Alley for the same reason (although it is actually wider nowadays)

:eek:DEADLY. here is the ultimate dundalk pub quiz question, not many people know this one:

name the smallest park in dundalk???

dfcelt

Parnell Park, opposite Old Shopping Centre

DundalkDuffman

Would say Hughes Park is about the same size as Parnell Park, its a toughie !

bettedavis

St leonards park, seatown!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Deleted User wrote: »

:eek:DEADLY. here is the ultimate dundalk pub quiz question, not many people know this one:

name the smallest park in dundalk???

Kearneys Park (The roundabout at the Garda Barracks) was in the Guinness Book of Records as the smallest park in Europe many years ago. It no longer qualifies as a park as it is a designated traffic island but I think you may have it in mind.

DundalkDuffman

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

Would say Hughes Park is about the same size as Parnell Park, its a toughie !

WRONG

dfcelt wrote: »

Parnell Park, opposite Old Shopping Centre

AND WRONG :pac:.

when is a park not a park? when its a ROUNDABOUT.

do you know the roundabout at the cresent just up from the friary with all the nice flowers on it?? believe it or not that is a park. according to a woman i know who has been in town for donkeys, it is called CARNEY park ( named after a priest from the friary i think) . apparently years ago it was square shaped and had railings around it but as new roads were built over the years it was cut back into a circular shape and eventually became a roundabout. i plan to test this by erecting a deckchair in the middle of it, i wonder what a passing guard would say? you cant be arrested for sitting in a park:D

CLASS OR WHAT???

DundalkDuffman

Deleted User wrote: »

WRONG



AND WRONG :pac:.

when is a park not a park? when its a ROUNDABOUT.

do you know the roundabout at the cresent just up from the friary with all the nice flowers on it?? believe it or not that is a park. according to a woman i know who has been in town for donkeys, it is called CARNEY park ( named after a priest from the friary i think) . apparently years ago it was square shaped and had railings around it but as new roads were built over the years it was cut back into a circular shape and eventually became a roundabout. i plan to test this by erecting a deckchair in the middle of it, i wonder what a passing guard would say? you cant be arrested for sitting in a park:D

CLASS OR WHAT???

Was class 2 hours earlier when Srameen told us

So where is the smallest street in the town then?

DundalkDuffman

DundalkDuffman wrote: »

Was class 2 hours earlier when Srameen told us

So where is the smallest street in the town then?

DOH!!!

smallest street? not sure

is it ship street at the side of larrys shop?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Deleted User wrote: »

WRONG



AND WRONG :pac:.

when is a park not a park? when its a ROUNDABOUT.

do you know the roundabout at the cresent just up from the friary with all the nice flowers on it?? believe it or not that is a park. according to a woman i know who has been in town for donkeys, it is called CARNEY park ( named after a priest from the friary i think) . apparently years ago it was square shaped and had railings around it but as new roads were built over the years it was cut back into a circular shape and eventually became a roundabout. i plan to test this by erecting a deckchair in the middle of it, i wonder what a passing guard would say? you cant be arrested for sitting in a park:D

CLASS OR WHAT???

I think you've missed a rather important point. It is no longer, and hasn't been for years, a park. You said it yourself above " when is a park not a park?" It's NOT a park!!! It was the smallest park in Dundalk. So where is the smallest park in Dundalk??:D

dfcelt

Quote:
Originally Posted by DundalkDuffman
Would say Hughes Park is about the same size as Parnell Park, its a toughie !

WRONG


Quote:
Originally Posted by dfcelt
Parnell Park, opposite Old Shopping Centre

AND WRONG .

when is a park not a park? when its a ROUNDABOUT.




So effectively, me & Duffman are not wrong but still in with a shout :P

DundalkDuffman

Ship Street certainly used to be and for years there wasonly one residence on it as well making it the least populated street! I see flats on it now butgiven that the length of it hasn't changed then it must be close :-)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

You're right. Ship Street was always taken to be the shortest street in town.

Ann22

That tiny little street leading from Bridge st down to beside the Castletown girls school is tiny. John st or Sraid Eoin is what it's called. It's meant to be the oldest street in town, think there was really old brickwork in it. Haven't been down that way in ages, could be all modernised now.

Ann22

Guess where in town the highest point above sea level is. Apart from climbing up a building pretend there's a flood.. where should we all escape to.:)

cargo

Highest point? Castletown Moate / Castletown Waterworks?

Mr Magnolia

What's happening at the square? A large steel structure has been erected across from the taxi rank. Tinnelly's look to have put it up so I'm wondering is the building there under strain? [wild speculation] With the great fire of Dundalk a couple of years ago and all the demolition/construction afterwards perhaps the foundations have been compromised [/wild specutlaion]. Anyone else see it yet or hear what it's about?

Ann22

cargo wrote: »

Highest point? Castletown Moate / Castletown Waterworks?

I was told by someone who should know what they're talking about that it's up at the end of Hughes' Pk. Maybe he meant the highest point in the town itself not the outskirts as it's hard to believe it's higher there than Castletown mount.

TheBigFella

Ann22 wrote: »

Guess where in town the highest point above sea level is.

I met a few 'Crips' on Ice House Hill recently and you won't get much higher than they were !!!!

TheBigFella

TheBigFella wrote: »

I met a few 'Crips' on Ice House Hill recently and you won't get much higher than they were !!!!

ah the coxes crips, bless their wee socks. when i see one i wanna playfully grab him in a headlock and rub my knuckles off his scalp. they're no way as hard as the quay boys though, the way they hang around outside barrack st stores all day saturday phlegming on the ground makes me quake with fear OOOoooooOOOhhh SCARY.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ann22 wrote: »

I was told by someone who should know what they're talking about that it's up at the end of Hughes' Pk. Maybe he meant the highest point in the town itself not the outskirts as it's hard to believe it's higher there than Castletown mount.

I think we need a definition of "the Town" from the person who raised the question.
I think the top of Hill St bridge is above the land at Hughes Park. Castletown Motte is probably the more acceptable answer for the town as it is today. I await the answer with interest.

Ann22

An engineer who worked for the council told me years ago that the end of Hughes' Pk was the highest point in town above sea level. I'm not sure if he meant just the streets of town or not but I am sure he said it was higher than the Hill st bridge 'cos we all guessed that point as being the highest and he said it wasn't.

TheBigFella

Speaking of Hill St. bridge, when then hell are they going to knock it down? We bought a house on the Avenue road 11 years ago and it was being talked about then.
Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later as it is a traffic nightmare.

TheBigFella

TheBigFella wrote: »

Speaking of Hill St. bridge, when then hell are they going to knock it down? We bought a house on the Avenue road 11 years ago and it was being talked about then.
Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later as it is a traffic nightmare.

last i heard was that the council is waiting until the shopping centre closes (cant be much longer ) and then bulldozing the whole frickin lot.

Ann22

I think it'll be sad to see the shopping centre go. I remember the old days in the late eighties when we'd all troop up there on a Saturday afternoon and troop around in aimless circles only to be moved on by the security men.:o We'd hang around in Slipped Disc for a while, have a wee look in Carroll's book shop. Maybe have a cup of coffee in the coffee shop with a bun smuggled from the bakery downstairs at the back door (cheaper). Good times.:)

Ann22

Ann22 wrote: »

I think it'll be sad to see the shopping centre go. I remember the old days in the late eighties when we'd all troop up there on a Saturday afternoon and troop around in aimless circles only to be moved on by the security men.:o We'd hang around in Slipped Disc for a while, have a wee look in Carroll's book shop. Maybe have a cup of coffee in the coffee shop with a bun smuggled from the bakery downstairs at the back door (cheaper). Good times.:)

yeah there will also be a tear in my eye when they destroy the hill st bridge, i did a whole lot of shiftin under there in my teens. the early nintetys - a golden era of shifts.

bettedavis

Ann22 wrote: »

I think it'll be sad to see the shopping centre go. I remember the old days in the late eighties when we'd all troop up there on a Saturday afternoon and troop around in aimless circles only to be moved on by the security men.:o We'd hang around in Slipped Disc for a while, have a wee look in Carroll's book shop. Maybe have a cup of coffee in the coffee shop with a bun smuggled from the bakery downstairs at the back door (cheaper). Good times.:)

Flashback! we'd do circuits of the top floor all day saturday, and it seemed huge! and they only had one c.d. (tape) on continuous loop.......all i remember is Kate Bush singing wuthering heights over and over and over again! and the place would be thronged, the coffee shop, pa's , queing for the payphone for your lift home cause mobiles hadn't been invented ! top drawer, oh the fancy pages i bought in there! then down to ian carrolls for Just17 and a bottle of warm coke, (cause he never plugged in the fridges) it's actually depressing to see how deserted it is now.

Ann22

I remember when I was young my mother would bring us up to the Shopping Centre one night a few weeks before Christmas to Quinnsworth to pick what we wanted Santy to bring. We'd no car so we'd walk uptown in the dark...cool! I was afraid to go up and down the escalators at first. Generally my mother used to shop in Backhouses, the shopping would be delivered in a cardboard box. We'd be peeping into it to see if there were any goodies.. which there wasn't usually.:o

this weeks argus:

there is no money in the coffers for the removal of hill st bridge which will cost about 8 million yoyos. since the bridge is not a national or secondary route dont expect any change for at least 5 years. :eek:

DundalkDuffman

Deleted User wrote: »

this weeks argus:

there is no money in the coffers for the removal of hill st bridge which will cost about 8 million yoyos. since the bridge is not a national or secondary route dont expect any change for at least 5 years. :eek:

Makes you wonder how the hell it costs 8 million to remove a bridge! Surely there are contractors that would only be mad for the work

i was thinkin the very same thing. 5 mates and a couple of kango hammers and i would happily obliterate the hooer for ONE million.

Ann22

I used to love walking over the bridge when I was a child, peeping through the railings at the drop, usually when I was being taken to the hospital to get my eyes tested or to the dentist (Nightmare!Dragon with red hair traumatised me, pulled my teeth out by the roots with the barest amount of anesthetic and me screaming:eek:).

indiewindy

A nightmare bridge, always dread getting caught before the lights change,
Is it just me or is the lack of fireworks each night in town an unexpected bonus of the "credit crunch"

TheBigFella

Last year was also very quiet leading up to halloween. I think its the Garda crack down thats made a big difference. We were in Jonesboro last week and every second person had a black bin liner full of fireworks.
Wait 'til Friday night and you'll see plenty.

DundalkDuffman

I'm on the Dublin Road and have heard plenty of them already! Pain in the bum but twill all be over soon :-)

DundalkDuffman

indiewindy wrote: »

A nightmare bridge, always dread getting caught before the lights change

Going up the Avenue or through towards town ?
Either way you have longer than you think anyways