Clara Lara

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I hope I'm not imagining this, or I'm in serious trouble...I'm not even sure if that is how you spell it...but when I was in Primary School I remember two separate trips organised to this place. It was in Wexford I believe and we had to rent a single decker, old green style Dublin bus, to get to the park. It was basically a huge swimming area (although you were always advised to wear shoes in the water) and there were loads of area's to climb and play.

I know that the school brought it's pupils there at the end of the year on a May or June Summer day and we'd have a bit of fun.

I think, and again this is just an assumption, that it was shut down a few years later because a patron was seriously injured or even killed there?

Does anyone remember the place I'm talking about?

Jev/N

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=clara+lara

TBH

Degsy

Wasnt that place closed down coz it was riddled with nonces?

Elessar

I had many a good summer there

They took the ship away though IIRC. And the water was always filthy.

alwaysadub

Oh i used to love that place as a kid!!!:D
Yep, from what i remember it closed cos someone broke their neck on one of the things-can't remember if they died or not.
It's back open again though.

MrStuffins

It was closed because the proprietor was "a nonce"

Rojo25

Still there and still great craic for kids, its in Wicklow near Roundwood and Blessington in the village of Clara

billy the squid

Only thing I remember about the place was that all the rides were made of tree trunks and it is one of the few places on the planet I would have liked to see a match put to.

Degsy

Elessar wrote: »

the water was always filthy.

Not as filthy as the nonce who ran the place:pac:

3hn2givr7mx1sc

I used to love it there.:D
I went there about 3 times on school tours and 4 times with the family.

Yakult

AHh I was there when I was like 4! never could remember where it was or called. Remember running and tripping in the gravel and ****ing up my leg. Ahh good times lol

Edgedinblue

Always wanted to go there, still havnt managed that trip yet haha! i remember going to Fort Lucan a fair few times with the school!

MrStuffins

I never went because i never learned to swim.

Who'd have known my lack of swimming skills would save me from a potential buggering?

frantic190

Was always a great laugh going there, 2 school trips to there I think, maybe 3.

Misticles

Is it not back open now?

Daisies

Edgedinblue wrote: »

Always wanted to go there, still havnt managed that trip yet haha! i remember going to Fort Lucan a fair few times with the school!

Fort Lucan, every summer. Loved it.

seanbmc

Went there when I was 12, it was shíte.

seanbmc

Daisies wrote: »

Fort Lucan, every summer. Loved it.

+1 loved that place.

joolsveer

http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/1202/morphew.html

I think it was closed down.

Michellenman

seanbmc wrote: »

+1 loved that place.

Drive by it most days. The 6-14 year old inside of me pleads with me to turn in to it :P:o

'Had' to go to it last year for my cousins birthday.. torture it was... yeah... torture...

Nulty

Plenty of good crack was had there

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caseyann

To think about the amount of kids who went there,when that thing was crawling around there.
I am personally happy i never paid to go there and lined his pervert pockets :mad:

christ on a bike!

Sorry for going slightly off topic but I remember hearing a story where someone ledged a knife in a slide in some Irish waterpark before and it slit someone open.

Nearly sure it was a teacher who told me, anyone ever hear anything like this?

Lu Tze

Misticles wrote: »

Is it not back open now?

Passed it a while back big sign saying "Open under new management"

skyhighflyer

Judging by their website design, I'd say it was last open around 1997...

.SONIC.

ah good memorys!!

W.Shakes-Beer

Ah I remember Clara Lara!! Went there in primary school.

T'was great being a pirate for the day, stealing peoples boats and whatnot.

**Timbuk2**

I remember that slide where you had to carry the boat/sled/carryer thingy all the way to the top of it - it was quite exhausting

filthymcnasty

wasn't there something crappier but similar in wicklow also?, Annamoe i think

BroomBurner

W.Shakes-Beer wrote: »

Ah I remember Clara Lara!! Went there in primary school.

T'was great being a pirate for the day, stealing peoples boats and whatnot.

Boat Wars were great fun! We used to sneak up on boats, hide under the 3 feet of murky water, then topple it from beneath.

Clara Lara, Mosney, they were all great.

BroomBurner

filthymcnasty wrote: »

wasn't there something crappier but similar in wicklow also?, Annamoe i think

That's for fishing, think it's still open.

ejmaztec

Never heard of it, never went there, and obviously didn't miss much.

filthymcnasty

BroomBurner wrote: »

That's for fishing, think it's still open.

yeah forgot about that, there was a lake with slides and the like, cant believe its still going

W.Shakes-Beer

No matter what I always came home soaked.

Clothes would get soaked then it'd be almost time to leave so changed into nice dry clothes but then....


"Yarrrr Captain Beer sees some gobshítes on a boat, I must take their boat...yarrrr"


Then back into the murky depths.

citizen_p

1 its in wicklow,
2 it was closed down because the manager had cameras in the bushes or bathrooms (peadophile)
3 re opened under new management as far as i know.


yea used to go there as a kid, they had a pirate ship, a tree house, go kart, a unused pitch and put, a large muddy water hole in the middle with ropes tied out of the surrounding trees as swings, paddle boats? at the pirate ship lajke and 1 large straight slide which had a furze bush that you hit into mid way down

edit oh theres a map, which makes it look so much better than it is
http://www.claralara.com/frames.htm

Jimmy Iovine

**Timbuk2** wrote: »

I remember that slide where you had to carry the boat/sled/carryer thingy all the way to the top of it - it was quite exhausting

especially when you were only 8. was there twice. pity to see it closed down for those reasons

applesock

went there alot with the cubs/scouts always loved it. But seriously im so so shocked about the owner being like that :eek:

off topic but those anyone remember rainbow rapids?

thebullkf

applesock wrote: »

went there alot with the cubs/scouts always loved it. But seriously im so so shocked about the owner being like that :eek:

off topic but those anyone remember rainbow rapids?

remember it well.:D


it was rapid:pac:

applesock

no way i can only vaguely remember it , it was "rapid" lol. dont suppose you remember where it was? i keep thinking for some reason was in Bray! could be getting other childhood memories mixed up

parker kent

applesock wrote: »

no way i can only vaguely remember it , it was "rapid" lol. dont suppose you remember where it was? i keep thinking for some reason was in Bray! could be getting other childhood memories mixed up

It is in Wicklow near Laragh and Roundwood.

thebullkf

parker kent wrote: »

It is in Wicklow near Laragh and Roundwood.

wrong.



rainbow rapids was in Dun Laoighaire.

Degsy

Lu Tze wrote: »

Passed it a while back big sign saying "Open under new management"

I saw a sign that said "Now 95% Nonce-Free"

http://www.claralara.com/

it hurts my eyes to look at that site

Degsy

Davegalway wrote: »

http://www.claralara.com/

it hurts my eyes to look at that site

http://www.claralara.com

kingtut

Clara Lara is still open and is in Co. Wicklow.

parker kent

thebullkf wrote: »

wrong.



rainbow rapids was in Dun Laoighaire.

Well obviously I assumed the question was about Clara Lara...hardly a crime considering the title of the thread and the lack of a quote.

ROCKMAN

Rathdrum Co Wicklow ,
oh Roundwood is not to far away

Yes its open ,different management
Was there 2 weeks ago , Don't know about its past but its was well run and clean on my visit and very busy , The group of 10-12 year old I brought had a great day.