What is Mourne park estate like in Skerries?

hgm

Hi we are thinking of moving here and would appreciate any feed back please.We are a young family so want to make the right decision.Is it rough?I know it is a council estate but some say it is fine now and others say it is rough.Thanks!

TangyZizzle

You're going to get mixed reviews. In my honest opinion it's a kip, but you're best off visiting it a few times yourself before you make up your mind. Are you really going to base your decision on where to raise your family on what a few boards users say? I don't think so. Off you go in your little car for a spin

It's got a few things going for it. It's got a primary and secondary school very nearby as well as the train station which is a 35ish minute journey to the City Centre and of course the 33 and 33A busses leave from the stop on the road that goes between Mourne View and Kellys Bay most times.

hgm

Am i really going to base my decision on real peoples views of an area they know better than me? .... Yes well it would make more sense to get an overall opinion rather than to go in 'my little' car and probably see nothing?!!

Thanks for your reply but you can keep your sarcasm thanks.;)

Sparky84

Its the same as any council estate really. Some good ones & some bad ones !

hgm

I see you edited your reply at the end.Thanks for that! I will look into it.

TangyZizzle

At no point was I being sarcastic. I gave you my honest opinion which is what you asked for then I put a question to you which in my eyes answered itself. I would never in a million years ask online if somewhere is suitable to raise my family in and then decide whether I'd live there or not purely by what some gimp on the internet said.

If you were to get in your little car and go for the odd spin you'd see a lot more than nothing. You'd see the area through your own eyes and be able to make a far better call about whether you want to live there or not. Does that not make sense?

cathy01

I dont think anyone wants to bad mouth an area as like everywhere there are good and bad .I know the new community centre is due to reopen which is a positive.

Sometimes the less said the better.

The Hill Billy

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TangyZizzle: Less of the belittling 'little car' comments.

tHB

Khannie

General advice: One thing I learned the hard way when we moved house (not to mourne view btw) was that I should have checked our locality on a Friday evening when the kids are out drinking. When you're spending a shed load of money (and houses cost a shed load of money), I think it's worthwhile doing all the research you can.

gloomyhorizons

I haven't lived there, or even visited much, but I'd agree with the other posters that, while people can give their opinions - which will be varied and possibly unreliable, it can't compare to going to the estate and having a look for yourself. There's a big green there, maybe take yourselves off for the day with a football and a picnic and just take it all in!!

They have a great bonfire for halloween.

LeoB

Like a lot of estates built in North County Dublin over the years there was very little put in for people and this did in the past cause problems in most of these estates.

I know a few people from the area and they are very nice, decent hard working people who just get on with life. There was a huge young population there a few years ago and some of them got the place a bad name. I would agree with Khannie investigate as much as you can visit it a few times and go down at week end. I would say there are a lot worse places you could live.

timisatom

6 years on and I would like to ask this again. How is Mourne estate?
I would like to buy a house there, Mourne Close. I visited the place once recently during the day and all I saw were some small school kids kicking a ball. Seemed nice.
Would the fact that me and my family are not irish (we are czech), be looked at as something weird or is there a good integration of non irish nationals? My kids are 4 and 2 so it would be school time for the boy next year...
Any help apreciated