Moving to Cavan

Marsden

Contemplating a move to Cavan from Dublin. I'm looking at Virginia but I'm hoping to get feedback from other members that have maybe moved from a city to the country and loved or regretted it.

unclebill98

Moved down from Dublin would never go back.

Looking for advice on something specific?

Marsden

unclebill98 wrote: »

Looking for advice on something specific?

Dealing with the quietness. Does boredom ever set in. I work from home and will need to journey back to dublin just once a week. For me I'm not too worried but I'd be wary that my wife could go stir crazy.

We've kids to keep us busy but she like to head out to shopping centre and the like when it takes her fancy. Is there enough in Cavan to keep her occupied.

gazzer

Marsden wrote: »

Dealing with the quietness. Does boredom ever set in. I work from home and will need to journey back to dublin just once a week. For me I'm not too worried but I'd be wary that my wife could go stir crazy.

We've kids to keep us busy but she like to head out to shopping centre and the like when it takes her fancy. Is there enough in Cavan to keep her occupied.

Well the Blanch SC is only a 50 minute drive from Virginia if you use the M3. Also Navan has a fair few shops. I moved to Cavan 3 years ago and never looked back. I will be honest though that it can get boring at night? I have tried to find things to do so that I can meet the locals so to speak but so far no joy. Virginia may be different though as I live nearer Ballyjamesduff.

However having said that I dont tend to go out during the week and a couple of times a month I head out in Dublin.

Leelaa22

I recently moved to Virginia too. Be sure you want the quiet life before coming down.

I travel to Dublin most days for college, but even spending the evenings and weekends here can be hard.

It is a nice place but a huge adjustment.

bbam

Lots of folks have moved down from the big smoke in the last 5 years... Some love it and have thrown themselves into local life and will probably never leave..
Some however have lost seriously on their investments and hate the rural life, they are however stuck in the country as they cannot release the capital they tied up in houses...

My advice is to rent, rent for a year and see how it goes.

There is lots to do in most towns, might not have the variety or public transport you are used to but there is a good life to be lived..

I'm presuming you will be working in Dublin as the employment opportunities in Cavan have always been poor, more so now with the downturn..

Marsden

bbam wrote: »

Lots of folks have moved down from the big smoke in the last 5 years... Some love it and have thrown themselves into local life and will probably never leave..
Some however have lost seriously on their investments and hate the rural life, they are however stuck in the country as they cannot release the capital they tied up in houses...

My advice is to rent, rent for a year and see how it goes.

There is lots to do in most towns, might not have the variety or public transport you are used to but there is a good life to be lived..

I'm presuming you will be working in Dublin as the employment opportunities in Cavan have always been poor, more so now with the downturn..

Yes I wouldn't be searching for a job in Cavan. The move isn't really for myself but rather thinking of a better place to raise children than Dublin.

I was planning to rent for a year first before making any kind of commitment but I dont really want to be moving from place to place with the kids either. We're still mulling it over for the moment and theres no pressure for us to move. I'm just unsure if its a good decision but I suppose I'll only find out if I go.

TYJ

Quick question, why would you want to live in Cavan

Marsden

TYJ wrote: »

Quick question, why would you want to live in Cavan

Country living but still close enough to Dublin, also not far from Dundalk where I have family. Why?

unclebill98

Plenty of choice when It comes to renting. 3 beds in Cavan for as little as €450p/m.

_Kaiser_

It depends what you want out of it and what your circumstances are...

I'm living in Virginia myself and moved down from Dublin 3 and a half years ago. At the time I was working in Meath so it was handy and I had a few friends down here already, and although there is a pretty good theatre (if that's your thing) and a few good pubs in the town, I'm past the "out every weekend on the lash" phase (joys of being in our sensible 30s eh?) so for me it was great.

Of course now thanks to the recession I'm forced to commute every day to Dublin which - while it's only 45 mins to the M50 using the M3 - is costing me an absolute fortune in diesel and tolls every month (€500 and rising as fuel goes up) as well as increased wear and tear on the car and a 200km daily round trip

It's still a nice place to live though, and as I'm renting I'm not affected by the property crash - for example the house I'm now in which was €320-360k at launch 3 years ago, wouldn't be worth more than €150k today and you can take your pick of the empty/half-finished/not started ones - but I've a friend whose sister bought one and really lost out on it

You WILL need a car though (maybe 2 if one of you is away during the day) as although the Supervalu in the town isn't bad and there's a large (I think overpriced?) Tesco about 20 mins up the road in Bailleboro, you'll still need to go to Navan or Cavan (or Blanch) for a lot of things.

I also worry about the growing "gang" of teenagers I see sitting around the garage as there's nothing for them to do and in a few years I can imagine all sorts of trouble with only a part-time Garda station and again the nearest one being 20+ mins away (or maybe I'm just getting old? )

If you make peace with the fact that you will need to drive for almost everything (shopping, entertainment etc) then it's a nice quiet town with good transport links to Dublin (and Enniskillen is only an hour away too), but like I say it really depends on your circumstances.

flanum

yet another dub movin to cavan... not sure whats worse the dubs or the foriegners... for f*cks sake.. ballyduff is now called bally"dub""!!!


only jiking, but seriously, an unmerciful amount of dubs have moved to county cavan (during the boom), if yer planning on moving to virginia,ballyduff then dont be expecting any cavan accents!! its all "howya bud"!! but anyway yer welcome... even if ye are about 6 years too late!! lol!

flanum

i ask "kaiser2000" about this growing gang of worrying youths? does "kaiser2000" reckon they are local cavan youths or would there be an element of dublin incomers to this phenonemon?

_Kaiser_

flanum wrote: »

i ask "kaiser2000" about this growing gang of worrying youths? does "kaiser2000" reckon they are local cavan youths or would there be an element of dublin incomers to this phenonemon?

I'm sure it's probably both.. I do know that a man living up near the firestation was tortured with the sort of low level crap the Gardai have no interest in but which can make life miserable for the person enduring it.

p_j_whelan

Am half thinking of looking for a place in Virginia, recently obtained a job in Meath and was looking at someplace like Maynooth originally to live (as heard Navan has a bad rep) but am thinking now that its a bit of a spin away and may mean a lot of money down the drain in terms of petrol etc. every day. Would Virginia be worth a shot?

Is it safe etc. as have never been up that side of the country. Wonder is there much for a mid twentysomething fella to do up there aswell?

p_j_whelan

p_j_whelan wrote: »

Am half thinking of looking for a place in Virginia, recently obtained a job in Meath and was looking at someplace like Maynooth originally to live (as heard Navan has a bad rep) but am thinking now that its a bit of a spin away and may mean a lot of money down the drain in terms of petrol etc. every day. Would Virginia be worth a shot?

Is it safe etc. as have never been up that side of the country. Wonder is there much for a mid twentysomething fella to do up there aswell?

Bump........

_Kaiser_

p_j_whelan wrote: »

Bump........

Read back to my comments above - it WILL cost you in fuel/tolls to commute and depending on what you're looking for it may be a bit quieter than you're used to - but if you can live with both of these then it's a lovely town

DB10

Well there is two nightclubs, the manor aint the greatest but I've heard the new club V is a quality spot.

Never heard of too much trouble up round there tbh but I dont live right there.

unclebill98

p_j_whelan wrote: »

Bump........

Well what do you like doing? Hobbies?

p_j_whelan

Thanks for the replies. Well I will be working in Kells so it wont be that far from where I work. Into cycling a bit and hoping to get into a habit of going to the gym over the winter. Ill study aswell so no harm if its a bit quiet in order to get some work done!!

Just wondered if it was a safe spot e.g. no knackers where I have to worry about my car every single night I park it up, walk to the shops hassle free etc. not like some other towns in Ireland.

I can put up with the quiteness during the week alright. Will prob be off to meet friends in Dublin most weekends anyway!

flanum

i think youve just answered your own question.. move so!!! and ye cud maybe get up extra early some mornings and cycle to work!! good luck with all if you do wish to move here... cead mile failte!

unclebill98

The wife just took up cycling. There is tons of clubs in Cavan much to my surprise. There's another tread about cycling in Cavan etc.

As for gyms, there is one in Virginia, ballyjamesduff, 3 in Cavan town etc.

Elia80

Hello,

I wanted to ask about opinions about The Gallops, in Cavan. It looks like a nice estate to me, not too close to town but with easy access. Does anyone know the place?

Thanks a lot.

JKSSS

Marsden wrote: »

Contemplating a move to Cavan from Dublin. I'm looking at Virginia but I'm hoping to get feedback from other members that have maybe moved from a city to the country and loved or regretted it.

Hi
I know you posted this awhile ago but I am in the same position now. We are thinking of moving to Cavan. just wondering if you made the move and how it worked out for you
Thanks
J

curiousmart

Any updates to this.

Ginger83

curiousmart wrote: »

Any updates to this.

Updates to what exactly?

curiousmart

Ginger83 wrote: »

Updates to what exactly?

Clearly the post subject is moving to Cavan but content is a few yrs old...
Any updates to content but with 2018 mindset.

Gaspode

I moved from Dublin last year to up near Arvagh. I have to say I love it here, have met plenty of friendly people and have settled in well.
The peace & quiet, beautiful scenery and easier pace of life are great. There's a huge variety of things to get involved in socially, far much more than I experienced in Dublin - people make more of an effort to socialise here it seems. You've got to do likewise and make a really effort to get involved locally to help you settle in.
Many pubs will make arrangements to get you home if you want to drink & live out of the way.
On the down side, no broadband or even hope of broadband in a lot of areas, recycling facilities are awful, bin collection is difficult if you live on a back lane and the nearest fully operating garda station is back in Cavan town, not ideal. Also the commute to Dublin is a bit tedious and hugely expensive, thankfully only a few more years of that for me!
You (and any other adults in the family) absolutely must be able and willing to drive when you live in the country - otherwise you are totally isolated and wont be happy.

So far so good for me anyway, the positives are outweighing the negatives.

Ginger83

curiousmart wrote: »

Clearly the post subject is moving to Cavan but content is a few yrs old...
Any updates to content but with 2018 mindset.

Are you thinking of moving?

If so if i knew what part of Cavan i might be able to advise. Have lived in Ballyjamesduff, currently live near Virginia but have friends in Bailieborough, Mullagh and Cavan town.

curiousmart

[Thanks so much v useful and insightful. quote="Gaspode;107879038"]I moved from Dublin last year to up near Arvagh. I have to say I love it here, have met plenty of friendly people and have settled in well.
The peace & quiet, beautiful scenery and easier pace of life are great. There's a huge variety of things to get involved in socially, far much more than I experienced in Dublin - people make more of an effort to socialise here it seems. You've got to do likewise and make a really effort to get involved locally to help you settle in.
Many pubs will make arrangements to get you home if you want to drink & live out of the way.
On the down side, no broadband or even hope of broadband in a lot of areas, recycling facilities are awful, bin collection is difficult if you live on a back lane and the nearest fully operating garda station is back in Cavan town, not ideal. Also the commute to Dublin is a bit tedious and hugely expensive, thankfully only a few more years of that for me!
You (and any other adults in the family) absolutely must be able and willing to drive when you live in the country - otherwise you are totally isolated and wont be happy.

So far so good for me anyway, the positives are outweighing the negatives.[/quote]

curiousmart

Near Cavan town and keeping an open mind. quote="Ginger83;107880208"]Are you thinking of moving?

If so if i knew what part of Cavan i might be able to advise. Have lived in Ballyjamesduff, currently live near Virginia but have friends in Bailieborough, Mullagh and Cavan town.[/quote]

amay89

curiousmart wrote: »

Any updates to this.

Hi,
Could you give me an idea of what Ballyjamesduff is like? I've seen some comments people saying it's a rough area. Thinking of moving with two young children. How did you find it?

TalkingGoose

Hi anyone move to Kingscourt? My fiance and I are seriously considering the move. We have a seven year old daughter. Just wondering how schools and activities and clubs in the area are like? I'm currently working in Blanchardatown so will be commuting, anyone with a similar commute how they get on with it? Cheers

Krombopulos Michael

TalkingGoose wrote: »

Hi anyone move to Kingscourt? My fiance and I are seriously considering the move. We have a seven year old daughter. Just wondering how schools and activities and clubs in the area are like? I'm currently working in Blanchardatown so will be commuting, anyone with a similar commute how they get on with it? Cheers

The commute will take you from Kingscourt to Moynalty to Kells bypass onto M3 to Blanch.

The road from Kingscourt to Moynalty is very windy and rough in places, but is in constant use to commute so it's manageable. You will also hit 2 x €1.40 tolls on the M3 each way so factor that into costs. I would prefer to pay the toll and avoid driving through Kells and Navan during rush hour.

There is a good playcentre in Kingscourt and some nice place to eat like the Wishing Well, but not sure about schools etc.

robertmcmahon

Can anyone tell me is Cavan Town a decent place to live? Moving up from Dublin because i work from home 3 days a week with office trip twice a week and the houses are half the price of Dublin. Seems like a grand place too live with plenty of shops and schools or am i wrong ? the lack of stuff to do wont bother us, me and the wife and 2 kids barely left the house even before covid haha we're all introverts i suppose. does there be much trouble in the town or any estates to avoid? please private message me if u dont want to publicly shame the place or an estate lol

Nekarsulm

Yeah, its grand. You won't have the range of restaurants there is in Dublin, but a few nice ones. 4 screen cinema, leisure centre with pool, range of pubs, usual range of sports clubs, tennis club with new Padel courts .
Gaelic clubs all around, rugby club, cricket club, Bowles, cycling clubs, clay pigeon shooting, rowing club down the road in Belturbet, new library, two golf clubs and an astro turf etc. Above list of activities hopefully back to full swing after almost everything shut with Covid.
Quiet enough town, estates to avoid? Ardkeen and Aughnaskerry, Lakeview, perhaps add in St. Martin's and Tullamongan. Although those last two are older terraced houses with families there for generations, so maybe unfair to include them.
Depends on your budget, buy or rent? Rental properties not plentiful at all. Have a look at the thread above this for a few suggestions also. Take a spin out to Swellan , 3 or 4 nice estates there. Are kids at school? That might influence where you choose, 3 national schools in town centre, plus Farnham a mile out the road beyond the hospital.
Four secondry schools in town, plus a GaelScoil.

Sue de Nimes

My wife and I are moving back to Ireland from the UK. We are considering Cavan. How are things like broadband at the moment?

Any places to avoid? We don't have kids so don't need access to schools. We do want somewhere quiet and without any aggro.

JustAThought

Sue de Nimes wrote: »

My wife and I are moving back to Ireland from the UK. We are considering Cavan. How are things like broadband at the moment?

Any places to avoid? We don't have kids so don't need access to schools. We do want somewhere quiet and without any aggro.

Why Cavan of all places? There are lovely houses for half nothing compared to Dublin prices all round the country.

Sue de Nimes

JustAThought wrote: »

Why Cavan of all places? There are lovely houses for half nothing compared to Dublin prices all round the country.

We are moving to be closer to my wife's elderly mother in the midlands. Cavan is one of several locations we are looking at. We have noticed that the houses within our budget in Cavan are quite nice. Our first choice is Athlone, but unfortunately there is very little housing stock available there and what there is can be pretty sketchy.

Gaspode

Why not Cavan? It's a beautiful county and has everything the poster would need.

Bummer1234

All kinda comes down to what size of a house you would like and as you mentioned your budget, You will find that east cavan is alot dearer because its kinda on the commuter belt to dublin. The closer to west cavan you go the cheaper it could be (Size depending),

Speaking for around belturbet the broadband is not to bad with fiber but of course its in scattered places at the moment and if your not able to get fiber you can get the local broadband from company like arden, net1 or even imagine (5g).

For anywhere in the county,If you see a house in mind and wondering it can get fiber bb go get the eircode of the house the address into here Eircode finder and see if its available here https://www.airwire.ie/index.php/avail or even if the house is gonna get it in the future here.

Sue de Nimes

Thanks for those links. I had the Eir one already but not the other two.

Krombopulos Michael

I currently have Arden wireless broadband in the back end of nowhere near cavan town and its decent, however I do get occasional drop outs.

When I lived in Cavan town I just went with Sky broadband.

Sue de Nimes

How wide is SIRO coverage in Cavan town? I looked at one house I liked online and it wasn't in a covered area.

Also, anyone able to tell me places to avoid buying in Cavan? Either estates in the town or parts of the county

Bummer1234

Sue de Nimes wrote: »

How wide is SIRO coverage in Cavan town? I looked at one house I liked online and it wasn't in a covered area.

Also, anyone able to tell me places to avoid buying in Cavan? Either estates in the town or parts of the county

Siro would be in most housing estates i though in cavan town but perhaps not on the outskirts, Im not 100% sure.

Not really all that many places to avoid IMO, Ardkeen or Aughnaskerry was mentioned in cavan town for been the rougher of the estates around the town from this thread but others might say differently.

Can anyone give an honest/accurate opinion of the more "popular" areas in Cavan that people would be looking to move to?

When people on this thread are asking what are places like, what they're really asking is 'what are the issues in X place'?

For example, I seen a house for sale in Ballyjamesduff (which I'll shorten to BJD from here) that took my interest.

However, although I've been in BJD a good few times, mostly just passing through, or popping into the Centra, I've never been there at night time, at weekends, nor do I know the area, so I'm not sure which parts are the good parts and which are the bad parts.

I did see a group of the stereotype scummers hanging around outside Mizzoni's pizza before, but although they look like the stereotype trouble makers, that doesn't necessarily mean they actually are.

However, then you see things like this, which are incredibly vaguely worded and give no indication as to what's happened/happening:

https://www.northernsound.ie/news/ballyjamesduff-community-council-develops-consultation-tackle-recent-acts-anti-social-behaviour-170977




All anyone wants, when they move to Cavan (or indeed anywhere else) is to have a bit of peace. Maybe get to know a few locals and make a couple of friends.

Having to deal with groups of scumbags that threaten and intimidate you, damage your property, etc. is what people are trying to avoid, hence moving in the first place (I also appreciate for many, it'll be a case of not being able to afford Dublin, but even these people generally won't be coming to Cavan to cause hassle).


I did hear a few years ago that Dublin Council put a deal in place with Cavan to rehouse some of the bad social tenants in parts of Cavan, but I'm unsure how true that actually is.

Nekarsulm

Deleted User wrote: »

I did hear a few years ago that Dublin Council put a deal in place with Cavan to rehouse some of the bad social tenants in parts of Cavan, but I'm unsure how true that actually is.

Don't think there is any truth in that.
BJD expanded greatly about 16 years ago, with an influx of people from Dublin, as well as foreign workers to Liffey Meats.
What we typically saw was people who had inherited a small 2 up, 2 down which their parents had purchased from Dublin Corp, and which was suddenly worth €400,000.
Cue a move to Navan/Virginia/BJD etc, buy a home and have a tidy lump sum left over.

Gaspode

I hear negative stuff said about BJD from time to time, but my feeling is that 99.9% of it is (thinly) disguised bigotry towards Dubs and/or immigrants. Every place on this planet has 'scummers' so there's no avoiding them really. I know some Dubs who have lived there and found it fine, the odd bit of trouble sure, but a fraction of what youd get in a big city.

Nekarsulm

Gaspode wrote: »

I , but my feeling is that 99.9% of it is (thinly) disguised bigotry towards Dubs and/or immigrants..

More a historical thing
Back in the mid 1980's the Priests in Kilnacrott Abbey used to bring young "troubled" kids down for a months holiday in the country.
Fresh air and rural living supposed to reform them.
Trouble was, some years later spates of thefts around tha area were found to be carried out by a few "returnees".

dregin

If I was moving back to Cavan, I'd be looking out towards the golf course/farnham school/the loreto. Really nice area and very quiet.

tayto lover

A friend of mine moved to Bailieborough and loves it.
Great Community School. Great GAA club. Kids sports etc.
Town has a swimming pool and gym.
Golf course in Virginia 7 miles away(9hole) same in Kingscourt 7 miles away (Cabra Castle 9 hole, Headford in Kells, 2 brilliant 18 hole courses, 15 miles away.
Bailieborough is 20 miles from Navan and 20 miles from Cavan.
Very friendly people too and welcoming.