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How many counties have you been in?

  • 09-08-2013 6:45pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭


    How many counties have you been in, and do you suggest I see any particular ones? I have been in Derry, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Sligo, Monaghan and Dublin. I feel I should see more of Ireland - but where exactly should I dander?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    35, 36 if you count Tipp N and S.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,797 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    All except Leitrim,no plans to either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    How many counties have you been in, and do you suggest I see any particular ones? I have been in Derry, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Sligo, Monaghan and Dublin. I feel I should see more of Ireland - but where exactly should I dander?

    get to galway op

    think longford and cavan only 2 iv never been too, but it is possible i drove through them without knowing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 RobGJ


    Ye, there is actually a good chunk of the country I've never visited. Have been to Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Tipperary, Antrim, Kilkenny, Wicklow, Limerick and that's about it - obviously passed through a few others en route but ye, I've got to see more of this auld island..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭Voltex


    How many counties have you been in, and do you suggest I see any particular ones? I have been in Derry, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Sligo, Monaghan and Dublin. I feel I should see more of Ireland - but where exactly should I dander?
    Co. Wexfords a great spot..ya cant beat a night out in Goery or doing a bit of crab fishing in Cahore and topping it off with the attractions of Court town!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    All of munster, most of connaght except sligo and leitrim, stayed or passed through others, most of leinster except louth, wicklow, wexford, carlow. None of ulster. Aprox 17 counties.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Pensivepuca


    Galway has often been suggested to me before. Very curious about Wexford, never hear much about the place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,305 ✭✭✭April O Neill


    All except Leitrim,no plans to either.

    Parts of Leitrim are beautiful. Your loss.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 Hedge11


    I have been in Derry, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Donegal, Sligo, Monaghan and Dublin.

    You must have flown to/from Dublin to avoid Louth & Meath?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Parts of Leitrim are beautiful. Your loss.

    I really don't understand why they're the butt of so many jokes. It's a lovely little county with a scenic short coastline. It would be in my top 5 destinations for a holiday or short break in Ireland.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,006 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    35, 36 if you count Tipp N and S.

    :confused::confused:

    In that case I'm counting Dublin N and S. Oh and also since Galway is so big I'm counting that as 2 too.

    Anyway, the whole Tipp North/South thing is no more as come the next elections, Tipp is voting as a whole. Same go for car registrations etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I've been to Tipperary but I've never been to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Pensivepuca


    Hedge11 wrote: »
    You must have flown to/from Dublin to avoid Louth & Meath?

    Being to a county is different than driving through.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 Hedge11


    Being to a county is different than driving through.

    No it isn't.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    26 at a count. Haven't been to Donegal or Derry yet, two places I'd really like to visit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 750 ✭✭✭Pretty Polly


    Does it count if you've driven through a county?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    callaway92 wrote: »
    :confused::confused:

    In that case I'm counting Dublin N and S. Oh and also since Galway is so big I'm counting that as 2 too.

    Have you counted Fingal, South Dublin or Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Does it count if you've driven through a county?

    Yes.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,547 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Does it count if you've driven through a county?

    Rule of thumb when interrailing on whether to say you've "been to" a country or just passed through is to have a beer and a shit in said country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭haveabanana


    CJC999 wrote: »
    I've been to Tipperary but I've never been to me.

    I've been to Fairyhouse but I've never been to Meath....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Pensivepuca


    Does it count if you've driven through a county?

    You can include places that you have driven through if you like. Personally I do not feel I have really been to a place and fully seen it just bombing through en route.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,782 ✭✭✭P.C.


    I really don't understand why they're the butt of so many jokes. It's a lovely little county with a scenic short coastline. It would be in my top 5 destinations for a holiday or short break in Ireland.



    Would be.
    Can't now that we sold it to the USA to help pay off some of Ireland's debt.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,188 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    Have been to all and spent at least a day or two in most; Leitrim is a beautiful county and the locals in the areas I worked and stayed in were, on the whole, very friendly and welcoming people. I've never understood the negative thing many Irish people have about Leitrim! I would feel very much the same about Limerick which also has an undeservedly poor reputation. Ireland is a beautiful country with areas of natural beauty in most if not all counties, stop the county-bashing!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    You can include places that you have driven through if you like. Personally I do not feel I have really been to a place and fully seen it just bombing through en route.

    Sorry Westmeath :(


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,238 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Dublin
    Kildare
    Wicklow
    Meath
    Louth
    Kilkenny
    Wexford

    Waterford
    Cork
    Kerry
    Clare

    Galway
    Mayo
    Sligo

    Donegal
    Antrim
    Down

    17, just over half.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,547 Mod ✭✭✭✭Amirani


    Pretty sure I've been to all 32. Fermanagh is the only one I'm not certain about, certainly never spent any extended amount of time there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭filmbuffboy


    Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal, Wicklow, Wexford, Dublin, Westmeath, Cork, Limerick, Clare.

    I've obviously been in a few others when driving through the country, getting from A to B, but not sure if that counts?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Just the one OP.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Pretty sure I've been to all 32. Fermanagh is the only one I'm not certain about, certainly never spent any extended amount of time there.

    You mean you've been to the 26 Irish ones and the 6 others in the UK












    .....you know I'm only shoite-ing youse :p


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  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    For some reason I though Adare was in Tipperary, it is not. So I've never been there - 25 counties it is. Drove through it plenty of times but never been in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭angelfire9


    All of em :D
    As a child my parents used to bring us camping different province every year
    Leitrim has some beautiful scenery by the way ;)

    If you haven't been to Clare on the west cost there are the Cliffs of Moher which are worth a visit despite the cost, the view on a good day is fab, we also have the Burren which is unique in Ireland with flora found no where else in the world and Ailwee Caves
    Lisdoonvarna in September, miltown malbay in July :)

    Then there is Bunratty castle & folk park, Cragganowen in the centre of the county
    To the east there is Killaloe and several lakes on the Shannon
    Mountshannon is also beautiful

    Oh and Ennis is one of the best towns for boutiques in the west of Ireland


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,498 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Every county bar Waterford, I've just never had a reason to go there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,633 ✭✭✭TheBody


    Been to all 32. Ireland is a beautiful place folks. Get out there!!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Hmm, good question:

    Dublin, Kildare, Wicklow, Meath, Louth, Wexford, Kilkenny, Tipperary
    Monaghan, Cavan, Antrim, Down
    Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon
    Kerry, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, Clare

    That doesn't include those that I have passed through, If I were to include those, it would probably be almost everywhere except Donegal, Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Shh stop praising Leitrim! It's a deadly spot, great night life, beautiful castles, coast and scenery. Too many people visiting it will get in my way!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,201 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Drove through it plenty of times but never been in it.

    Explain!


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Explain!

    Badly worded :D

    I mean I've never seen any of it or gotten out of the car, just passed through. Saw the Bulmers factory the other day!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    Definitely
    Kilkenny, Tipperary, Carlow, Waterford, Wexford, Laois, Kildare, Dublin, Galway, Cork

    Possibly
    Clare, Limerick, Offaly, Wicklow

    So almost every county in the bottom-half of the country; none in the top-half :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    The only ones I have not been to are a few in Ulster, Derry and Antrim.

    Been to every other county. So 30 in total.

    Being a member of a sports club is a great way to get to travel the country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    That got me thinking

    Dublin, Donegal, Meath, Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford, Cork, Kerry, Meath, Kildare, Laois, Derry, Monaghan, Cavan, Kilkenny, Carlow, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Galway, Tipperary

    So I'm a 21, which is higher than I thought it would be


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 215 ✭✭Pensivepuca


    Leitrim is really being sold to me, its quite close too.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I have been to 31 counties but I've never been to Co. Derry.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RachaelVO wrote: »
    Laois,

    Oh I forgot about Laois! I've been to Laois many times! back up to 26 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    Every county bar Waterford, I've just never had a reason to go there

    Dungarvon is a surprisingly nice lil town


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    wprathead wrote: »
    Dungarvon is a surprisingly nice lil town

    Was there Saturday!

    Was also in Cork, and Wexford on Saturday. I get around :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Oh I forgot about Laois! I've been to Laois many times! back up to 26 :D

    Poor Laois and Leitrim they seem to get forgotten very easily.

    (actually I liked them both, and preferred Laois to one of our most hailed touristy counties in the south)


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    RachaelVO wrote: »
    Poor Laois and Leitrim they seem to get forgotten very easily.

    (actually I liked them both, and preferred Laois to one of our most hailed touristy counties in the south)

    Laois is always the county I forget when I'm trying to name them all!

    Sure I go to Electric Picnic every year and have friends down there and everything. Should really remember that one :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    Laois is always the county I forget when I'm trying to name them all!

    Sure I go to Electric Picnic every year and have friends down there and everything. Should really remember that one :P

    Really, if that's true, I'm mortified for ya :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭Peanut Butter Jelly


    All except Waterford.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Oh I forgot about Laois!

    That's ok, it happens quite a lot to us :pac:


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