Where is this? Game

Swiper the fox

Ok, I'm a bit bored today and I'm home in front of my laptop. A similar game is played on the Cool vids and pics forum, I don't expect this will last long but it might be a distraction for some of us for a while anyway:o
Post a picture of a place in Limerick, remove any obvious clues and people guess or tell us where it is, then they can take a turn or pass if they wish.
Obviously I'll go first.:p Clues can start after a few guesses

Wise Old Elf

High Road in Thomondgate?

Swiper the fox

Thank you wise old elf, unfortunately you are wrong:)

adaminho

Not sure where that is. Maybe around windmill street? I know this proved popular here before. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056252749

Swiper the fox

Not Windmill street
Oops, didn't know there was a similar thread before, still it was a long time ago so hopefully a few more will bite on this.

I'll give a clue later on if it's still not got.

Wise Old Elf

Second go so: sexton street?

Swiper the fox

Not Sexton street

Berty

Across from redemptorist church.

Swiper the fox

Not there either,
Clue: There is a shop very close to this picture.

Gerard street. I cheated by the way. Im also very bored.

Pandiani

Gerard Street across from the dry cleaners

Edit, was just beaten to it!

Swiper the fox

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Gerard street. I cheated by the way. Im also very bored.

You're right, how could you have cheated? Surely you didn't drive around the whole of Limerick on google earth?

Do you want to put something up or pass it so somebody else can have a go?

Swiper the fox

Swiper the fox wrote: »

You're right, how could you have cheated? Surely you didn't drive around the whole of Limerick on google earth?

Do you want to put something up or pass it so somebody else can have a go?

The picture has a 2015 stamp on it and the house has a for sale sign on it so I checked the auctioneers website :P

Let someone else have a go. Am on the phone for now so its too much hassle. Will post myself when I'm on the computer later

h3000

This should be an easy one

Berty

Off High St. Little Gerald Griffin Street.

h3000

Beer Baron wrote: »

Off High St. Little Gerald Griffin Street.

That's the place.

Berty

h3000 wrote: »

That's the place.

Lived there for my sins way back when.

I pass as I'm on mobile so can't really invest myself in a good pic.

h3000

Beer Baron wrote: »

Lived there for my sins way back when.

I pass as I'm on mobile so can't really invest myself in a good pic.

I did myself for a while.

So did my brother when they were just built

Swiper the fox

Go on so, the door in the bottom right was once the main entrance to my gaff

stefanovich

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Go on so, the door in the bottom right was once the main entrance to my gaff

Mayorstone/Clareview area I bet.

Wise Old Elf

If not Mayorstone/Clareview, somewhere around the Rosbrien Road area?

Swiper the fox

Nobody has it right yet, not Mayorstone, Clareview or Rossbrien road.

MrLaurel

Sunville Avenue, NCR

stefanovich

MrLaurel wrote: »

Sunville Avenue, NCR

I was just google mapping around that area! I realised the house with the windows in the roof in the bottom right looked way too familiar. I'm living just two minutes away from there.

Swiper the fox

Sunville is correct, anybody else want to put one up?

Go on sure

Swiper the fox

Edit
Sorry I deleted the picture but the attachment is still there, ignore it I suppose

Swiper the fox

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Edit

Needs more for sale signs :P

stefanovich

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Go on sure

Stenson park

stefanovich

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Edit
Sorry I deleted the picture but the attachment is still there, ignore it I suppose

Joseph street

stefanovich

stefanovich wrote: »

Stenson park

Nope. Never even heard of Stenson park

stefanovich

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Nope. Never even heard of Stenson park

Would it be in the vicinity of Caherdavin?

Berty

Ballinacura Gardens

Swiper the fox

stefanovich wrote: »

Joseph street

Sorry, my one is not Joseph street.

Snotaul, I don't think I can stop people guessing my one so we'll probably have two on the go, when you said "go on so!" I thought you wanted me to post another.

Yours has the look of Ballinacurra Gardens which has already been guessed.

Mc Love

Beer Baron wrote: »

Ballinacura Gardens

Yep you are very good BB - parked car there once

peckerhead

Where's this eye-catching landmark, then? (bit of a "gimme", really, but it might puzzle a few people...)

Swiper the fox

Roches mills on the Dock Road??

peckerhead

Right in one! Viewed from behind, while walking the mutt in the old racecourse. Same vantage point as this:

Berty

Is that not Roches feeds?

Also for Ballinacura, the house at the end of the pic was a relatives of mine so thats how I knew it.

peckerhead

Beer Baron wrote: »

Is that not Roches feeds?

Yup, that's what I'd have called it too. Isn't the "mills" the big stone building further down the road, on the left heading towards town?

Beer Baron

Beer Baron wrote: »

Is that not Roches feeds?

Also for Ballinacura, the house at the end of the pic was a relatives of mine so thats how I knew it.

The man who lived there passed away late last year actually

mgbgt1978

Swiper the fox wrote: »

Go on so, the door in the bottom right was once the main entrance to my gaff

You're not Denis Allen (of 'Limerick you're a Lady' Fame) are you? He lived there with his mother in the '70's.
Back then the 3 windows you can see behind this house didn't exist. That was a derelict Coach house for sunville house, but was later totally rebuilt.

Swiper the fox

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

You're not Denis Allen (of 'Limerick you're a Lady' Fame) are you? He lived there with his mother in the '70's.
Back then the 3 windows you can see behind this house didn't exist. That was a derelict Coach house for sunville house, but was later totally rebuilt.

Denis Allen as well?? That house is steeped in Limerick legends. Sunville House was the home of the Cleeves family and then of Donogh O'Malley. We rented a lovely apartment (one of two) which was an extension of the original house with the entrance to the side as you see in the picture, that was a little over ten years ago, the main house was and probably still is owned by a prominent gynaecologist.

Berty

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

The man who lived there passed away late last year actually

I know, I was there when it happened.

Beer Baron

Beer Baron wrote: »

I know, I was there when it happened.

Very sorry to hear that. I'm originally from the area.

Berty

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Very sorry to hear that. I'm originally from the area.

I think most of the city knew him.

Now, back to the pictures. :pac:

Beer Baron

Beer Baron wrote: »

I think most of the city knew him.

Now, back to the pictures. :pac:

Don't think anyone has guessed swipers last one. Haven't a clue.

I'm actually enjoying this!

Is this restricted to the city?

Wise Old Elf

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Is this restricted to the city?

Not my game but I'd say go for it for outside as well (though I definitely won't have a hope being a blow in as it is!)

Swiper's PIC looks like somewhere around Nicholas Street. I'm going to kick myself when I see the (correct) answer, it looks really familiar.

Swiper the fox

Here's mine again so