Jurassic Park, Sligo??

ChippingSodbury

Jaysus,
I never knew Jurassic Park was in Sligo...:)

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=Rockfield,+Coolaney&hl=en&ll=54.165738,-8.625576&spn=0.008718,0.026157&sll=-34.016242,18.457031&sspn=49.900503,107.138672&oq=rockfield,+cool&hnear=Rockfield,+County+Sligo&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=54.165726,-8.625761&panoid=4cMWfp6VvVOK_dx5vBQG8Q&cbp=12,334.53,,0,0

AngryBollix

Fire should arrive in sligo in the next 10,000 years

Nothingbetter2d

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

Jaysus,
I never knew Jurassic Park was in Sligo...:)

http://maps.google.ie/maps?q=Rockfield,+Coolaney&hl=en&ll=54.165738,-8.625576&spn=0.008718,0.026157&sll=-34.016242,18.457031&sspn=49.900503,107.138672&oq=rockfield,+cool&hnear=Rockfield,+County+Sligo&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=54.165726,-8.625761&panoid=4cMWfp6VvVOK_dx5vBQG8Q&cbp=12,334.53,,0,0

u must be a dubliner, we culchies tamed them beasts years ago.

Standard Toaster

I think it's photoshopped.

ChippingSodbury

Nope!
From Sligo, but this place is up the mountains so we'd consider it the "sticks" (in much the same way as anyone from Dublin would consider anyone outside Lucan a culchie...)

It's all relative!

ChippingSodbury

Standard Toaster wrote: »

I think it's photoshopped.

Are you doubting the fact that there may be dinosaurs in Sligo???

AngryBollix

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

u must be a dubliner, we culchies tamed them beasts years ago.

says the dublin 7 culchie

TeddyTedson

I lived in Sligo town a few years back. I quite liked what they had done with the main street!

ChippingSodbury

AngryBollix wrote: »

says the dublin 7 culchie

Careful Angry! He could be a guard living in D7...

John Doe1

You would think Yeats would have wrote a poem about THIS:p

minidazzler

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

They're all my relatives!

FYP

Nothingbetter2d

AngryBollix wrote: »

says the dublin 7 culchie

born in galway, reared in carlow, now live n work in dublin

AngryBollix

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

Careful Angry! He could be a guard living in D7...

A definite possibility

Nothingbetter2d

AngryBollix wrote: »

A definite possibility

nope im not a guard... i work in I.T.

CardBordWindow

Looks like your ma!

Standard Toaster

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

Are you doubting the fact that there may be dinosaurs in Sligo???

I am indeed. It's a well know fact that Sligo and it's surrounding areas are still in the Cambrian geological period.

ChippingSodbury

CardBordWindow wrote: »

Looks like your ma!

Which one (and I don't mean which ma)?

Riddle101

Sounds like something you'd here in Father Ted. Except it would be a lot funnier if it were Jurassic Park, Craggy Island.

Duckworth_Luas

Riddle101 wrote: »

Sounds like something you'd here in Father Ted. Except it would be a lot funnier if it were Jurassic Park, Craggy Island.

These must be the "extra dinosaurs" from Jurassic Park the Directors Cut!

Radharc na Sleibhte

I dont get it, am i missing something?
Im looking at it on ipad.
We have ipads over here, only the first one though, apparently there's talk of a second model.

44leto

I was in Sligo town once, I took a pic'

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GjFhdNjAwTU/TzCZ0rKm9wI/AAAAAAAABaQ/DnWTElE21hE/s1600/India-slums.jpg

44leto

I was in Sligo town once, I took a pic'

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GjFhdNjAwTU/TzCZ0rKm9wI/AAAAAAAABaQ/DnWTElE21hE/s1600/India-slums.jpg

Mint Sauce

Standard Toaster wrote: »

I think it's photoshopped.

Or the OP has too much time on his hands.

Anita Blow

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time

starbelgrade

It's not photoshopped. I live a couple of minutes away from that house & the dinosaurs are still there.

True story

ChippingSodbury

irish-stew wrote: »

Or the OP has too much time on his hands.

No, I just decided to go for a spin on Google Maps: it's cheaper than burning diesel these days!!

ChippingSodbury

starbelgrade wrote: »

It's not photoshopped. I live a couple of minutes away from that house & the dinosaurs are still there.

True story

Thanks, I knew I wasn't imagining things

downwithpeace

Sligo should cash in on this with rich tourists, add some ROAR noises and they'll could take in €100 before anyone's the wiser.

BluesBerry

downwithpeace wrote: »

Sligo should cash in on this with rich tourists, add some ROAR noises and they'll could take in €100 before anyone's the wiser.

Throw in a couple of plastic lepracauns and they will lap it up! RRRRROOOAAARRR

Sindri

They have electricity in Sligo? :eek:

SteelyDanJalapeno

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

nope im not a guard... i work in I.T.

For those who dont know Sligo acronyms the means the poster works "in toilets"

ChippingSodbury

Sindri wrote: »

They have electricity in Sligo? :eek:

Could be a problem.....sounds vaguely like the plot line in Jurassic Park....

Son Of A Vidic

downwithpeace wrote: »

Sligo should cash in on this with rich tourists

That rules out Dubs straight away.

Liam Byrne

Radharc na Sleibhte wrote: »

I dont get it, am i missing something?
Im looking at it on ipad.
We have ipads over here, only the first one though, apparently there's talk of a second model.

I'm lost too - going into StreetView just shows a road with a Children Crossing sign and a silo of some sort.

What should we be seeing ?

FinnLizzy

Liam Byrne wrote: »

I'm lost too - going into StreetView just shows a road with a Children Crossing sign and a silo of some sort.

What should we be seeing ?

You found St. Kevins silo!

Liam Byrne

FinnLizzy wrote: »

Liam Byrne wrote: »

I'm lost too - going into StreetView just shows a road with a Children Crossing sign and a silo of some sort.

What should we be seeing ?

You found St. Kevins silo!

Maybe, but it's not a dinosaur (damn you speckled hen advertising!)

fryup

ChippingSodbury wrote: »

Are you doubting the fact that there may be dinosaurs in Sligo???

people who live in the past, yes there's plenty of em

ChippingSodbury

Liam Byrne wrote: »

I'm lost too - going into StreetView just shows a road with a Children Crossing sign and a silo of some sort.

What should we be seeing ?

This...

lilblackdress

Anita Blow wrote: »

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time

Hehehe! Can you really tell by the pixels?! Cause i can confirm they are real dinosaurs! :cool:

Scarlet42

"REAL" dinosaurs?????

i also confirm there are real dinosaur statues in that field!!!

lilblackdress

Yes, that is what i said REAL fake dinosaurs! :P

Fizman

The dinosaur standing up is smiling. No dinosaur would be smiling if it was in a field in Sligo.

Has to be shopped.

ChippingSodbury

On the subject of photoshopping/ airbrushing, I heard a funny story last year during the elections. A woman was talking to her husband, both in their sixties, about the Mary Davis posters. She told him that they were airbrushed and that Mary really didn't look like that. Later on that day he was talking to one of his mates and the issue of the posters came up and he said "Ach, sure that's a blowjob".
So maybe that's why the dinosaur is smiling: he got an "airbrush"...

red sean

Fizman wrote: »

The dinosaur standing up is smiling. No dinosaur would be smiling if it was in a field in Sligo.

Has to be shopped.

They're not there anymore. Dead. Butchered and sent to Dublin as beef.

Born to Die

the Dinosaurs aren't an issue compared to the neanderthals that roam the streets of the town.

admiralofthefleet

i was in sligo for a week during the summer, its one cool place