Silage/ Shiet smell Castaheany Ongar Blanc

Whats the deal with the hideous smell? Smells like silage or something as putrid in the air, can smell it up in Ongar village too.

Anyone know where its coming from

scudster

Silage doesn't have a putrid/****e smell. Far from it. To me a handful of freshly opened silage smells quite like tobasco.
What you are possibly smelling is slurry of some kind. The difference between the two is the digestive tract of a cow.

rolion

Farming "organic stuff" around Clonee Village, on the back road to Lucan / Leixlip !

January

Could smell it up in Mulhuddart earlier too... up at the community centre so up further than the village.

Zaph

Just been up at the Centre. The stench up there is appalling.

I tend to have the windows and back door open all day. The gaff smells rank now :eek:

chucknorris

It's slurry alright, and not uncommon....it's spread at this time of year in advance of winter for a good spring.

Larbre34

Yeah but it was really bad last evening, and it didnt smell much like regular silage, I came up the back road with the windows open and got stuck behind some cyclists so it stank! Even checked my shoes when I got out of the car!

HungryJoey

Noticed the smell too, its been rotten for the last few days.

ciaran76

I remember years ago when Keepak used to spread blood on the fields the smell was terrible for days. Maybe it could be that again also especially when it hadn't rained for a while.


Mentioned in the below links.
http://www.epa.ie/licences/lic_eDMS/090151b280041d9b.pdf

This link mentions complaints about the odurs also.
http://www.epa.ie/licences/lic_eDMS/090151b280183414.pdf

ongarboy

I wonder has this smell also led to an increase in flies in the area? I've had the windows wide open during the daytime the last few days since the weather improved again and a lot of flies have entered my house. I didn't experience this during earlier fine weather this summer when the windows would also have been open.:(

Larbre34

Warmer day today, opened windows when got home, home now smells like dogsh1t.

wawaman

We need Johnson Mooney & O'Brien to start baking some bread and get that smell to negate it !!

jack presley

My sense of smell must be gone. i haven't noticed a bad smell anytime this week.

Elbaston

Larbre34 wrote: »

Yeah but it was really bad last evening, and it didnt smell much like regular silage, I came up the back road with the windows open and got stuck behind some cyclists so it stank! Even checked my shoes when I got out of the car!

Cows were on the Guinness.

Jesus H Christ on a bike, I cant even have my windows open, the house smells like a barn

Larbre34

We badly need rain to wash it into the land, very little except a few showers on the forecast until the weekend.

Vahevala

I could smell it last night in Tyrrelstown, had to keep the windows closed in the end

Drop the Ball

Does anyone know what/where the source of the smell is?

Vahevala

Vahevala wrote: »

I could smell it last night in Tyrrelstown, had to keep the windows closed in the end

I know the feeling. My house stank yesterday. I actually started feeling quite nauseous, not sure if it was related, but it certainly didnt help.
As Labre said we, need a good rain to wash it into the soil. no chance of that today . hate to wish for rain on days like this

ongarboy

What I find odd is that it comes and goes and can be really rank when it is around. No smell today, thankfully.

ciaran76

I could smell it today on the back road from Ongar to Clonee but in Castaheany I couldn't smell it at all
It was quite windy this evening so that could have sent it off as different direction.

yay, a reprieve today, luckily ))

Vahevala

I was so happy that I could open the windows again in Tyrrelstown

me too, the house feels aired out again , phew.:)

Larbre34

Larbre34 wrote: »

We badly need rain to wash it into the land, very little except a few showers on the forecast until the weekend.

No because that washes it into rivers, killing wildlife.
That's why it's spread on dry spells.
Sure it's only a smell, your olfactory receptors get used to it after a while and then you don't pick it up, it's still around the area.

Vahevala

It is unbearable tonight, seriously makes me feel like puking.

Larbre34

Frankly screw the wildlife, i'm not planning on fishing locally soon. And my olfactory perceptions are just fine, in fact they seem renewed daily. Heavy rain due tomorrow, bring it on.

Fecking smell back last few days, this morning really damn bad. ive just moved over this side, was this smell around last year or previous years? is it normal for the area

Walked up to Ongar Village, place is stinking.

ciaran76

That smell is around every year since as back as I remember.

Zaph

I'm in the area 9 years, and I only ever remember it once before, and nothing like as bad as this year. I was up in Damastown today and it was pretty bad up there.

ongarboy

ciaran76 wrote: »

That smell is around every year since as back as I remember.

Interestingly this is the first year I've noticed it having lived here 8 years!

ciaran76

ongarboy wrote: »

Interestingly this is the first year I've noticed it having lived here 8 years!

I lived in Clonsilla before Clonee since 1986 and always remembered the smell as when we were kids we used to hang up in the old farmers barn and around where the old water tower was and always recall that smell.
When I moved to Clonee in 2005 a neighbour of mine commented on it at the time as she only moved here from the South side and was shocked.

I reckon it could be to do with the weather and wind as well.

The reason I was able to pull the Keepak stuff up in the above posts as a neighbour of mine sent that to me in 2008 or there abouts.

Its has been mentioned on here before too.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=61968221

sparky28

The smell is slurry. Its basically cattle s**t which is stored in slurry tanks and then gathered up, mixed with water and spread on the land. It's the ultimate fertilizer and is used to enrich the soil so that the grass will grow well for the following year. The smell should be gone in a day or two. The reason the smell comes and goes is down to the wind direction on the day.

sparky28

sparky28 wrote: »

The smell is slurry. Its basically cattle s**t which is stored in slurry tanks and then gathered up, mixed with water and spread on the land. It's the ultimate fertilizer and is used to enrich the soil so that the grass will grow well for the following year. The smell should be gone in a day or two. The reason the smell comes and goes is down to the wind direction on the day.

The smell had been around for weeks though. Some days are just worse than others. Really worse than others in that you cant leave windows or doors open.

KGLady

Been living in the area for 17yrs now and I've regularly noticed the smell around this time of year, but its never been as bad.

Going up to Ongar in the car its awful, I haven't gotten out of the car though so I don't know the full effect of it. Last week I went to Tyrrelstown heading to Aurora and soon as we got out of the Taxi I was fit to vomit on the street and had to cover my mouth and nose until we were indoors. It was vile, and it didn't have that 'country clean' slurry smell, it was a noxious rancid smell with a sh1te undertone Thankfully it wasn't bad inside the restaurant, it was just a lingering note of it from that faded quickly, but I felt for them doing food business with that putrid stomach turning air outside.

I've been hearing suggestions from neighbours that its possibly pig slurry which smells worse than cow, or even that its animal blood mixed in with it which gives off the particularly fetid stink. Thankfully this morning its grand, here's hoping that it won't be so bad with the weather turning colder and damp.

KGLady

KGLady wrote: »

It was vile, and it didn't have that 'country clean' slurry smell, it was a noxious rancid smell with a sh1te undertone

Love the description, thats exactly what it is!!!