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Who owns the new houses

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  • 18-04-2016 3:50am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭


    Drove to apple green petrol station today and saw a new housing est being built its almost completed

    It's more or less between spar and apple green.

    Is it private housing?

    Or social council housing?

    Is that area Carlow or graige?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,664 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    at the roundabout? Isnt that a ghost estate?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭iano.p


    Where is this Tony. There is a new link road been built of the roundabout past spar. Jimmy brennan had a estate behind the houses that aren't finished ghosts estate.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    There are houses opposite Spar that are being finished off at the minute.
    They will be used for social housing. I think it's around 40 of them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭CarlowPerth


    The estate behind Jimmy Brennan's house was built by Mythen Construction not Jimmy Brennan


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    iano.p wrote: »
    Where is this Tony. There is a new link road been built of the roundabout past spar. Jimmy brennan had a estate behind the houses that aren't finished ghosts estate.

    there almost finished. Workers finishing it this week i am told it's the road is also a bypass to the swimming pool


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,664 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    tonyheaney wrote: »
    there almost finished. Workers finishing it this week i am told it's the road is also a bypass to the swimming pool

    the road goes out to between the numbers and springhill. You'd think they'd extend it across the barrow and out to the kilkenny road


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    maccored wrote: »
    the road goes out to between the numbers and springhill. You'd think they'd extend it across the barrow and out to the kilkenny road

    So Verry True


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    just been to the Carlow coco and its called Fruithill (nice name) its part Laois and part Carlow


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    There are houses opposite Spar that are being finished off at the minute.
    They will be used for social housing. I think it's around 40 of them.

    are you sure its 40? look like more


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    tonyheaney wrote: »
    just been to the Carlow coco and its called Fruithill (nice name) its part Laois and part Carlow
    How is it part Carlow coco? The border is down beside the church.
    Are developments on the border serviced by both cocos normally?
    tonyheaney wrote: »
    are you sure its 40? look like more
    Maybe there are more in Fruithill Manor, but just 40 or so are being readied for social housing is what i was told.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    How is it part Carlow coco? The border is down beside the church.
    Are developments on the border serviced by both cocos normally?


    Maybe there are more in Fruithill Manor, but just 40 or so are being readied for social housing is what i was told.

    All I know from what they told me in Carlow CoCo was that Laois and Carlow are part owners and 50% was Carlow and visa versa

    not saying you are wrong but where did you get your info? was it Laois coco?

    is Fruithill Manor the name of the area being built? when we drove down today there seemed far more then 40 houses


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    tonyheaney wrote: »
    All I know from what they told me in Carlow CoCo was that Laois and Carlow are part owners and 50% was Carlow and visa versa

    not saying you are wrong but where did you get your info? was it Laois coco?

    is Fruithill Manor the name of the area being built? when we drove down today there seemed far more then 40 houses

    Yes, it was called Fruithill Manor when it was originally built, maybe 7-8 years ago.
    A business owner in the business park opposite was telling me it was 40 houses for social housing. That's not to say there's not more houses in the estate.

    I'd be interested in finding out if Carlow coco have a 50% share, as it's clearly in Laois.
    I wonder if it's 50% of the social housing for Carlow and 50% for Laois? I'm not even sure how that'd work.
    In any case, it's great to see both cocos working together to try solve what's a big problem (the lack of social housing)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    Yes, it was called Fruithill Manor when it was originally built, maybe 7-8 years ago.
    A business owner in the business park opposite was telling me it was 40 houses for social housing. That's not to say there's not more houses in the estate.

    I'd be interested in finding out if Carlow coco have a 50% share, as it's clearly in Laois.
    I wonder if it's 50% of the social housing for Carlow and 50% for Laois? I'm not even sure how that'd work.
    In any case, it's great to see both cocos working together to try solve what's a big problem (the lack of social housing)

    So is Fruithill Manor Laois or Carlow?

    Also if you check a Carlow map you can see a pyramid shaped detour in o Laois, when did that happen? It's like the border follows the middle of the barrow takes a sharp turn out of the water and goes back down a few miles later resuming its border.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭patrickc


    both councils have provided the funding necessary to complete the houses, hence the sharing.
    people from Graiguecullen (Laois) will be prioritised for them I believe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    tonyheaney wrote: »
    So is Fruithill Manor Laois or Carlow?
    .
    Laois
    tonyheaney wrote: »
    Also if you check a Carlow map you can see a pyramid shaped detour in o Laois, when did that happen? It's like the border follows the middle of the barrow takes a sharp turn out of the water and goes back down a few miles later resuming its border.
    That's the 'Triangle' It was formed approx 200 years ago, when the county boundary changed to bring Graiguecullen from Laois to Carlow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    Laois


    That's the 'Triangle' It was formed approx 200 years ago, when the county boundary changed to bring Graiguecullen from Laois to Carlow.

    200 years ago????? are you not sure that its recent? lots of perople inside feel their laois


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    patrickc wrote: »
    both councils have provided the funding necessary to complete the houses, hence the sharing.
    people from Graiguecullen (Laois) will be prioritised for them I believe.

    went in today to confirm nd as it stand 50% "Are Carlows"

    Has anyone gone in and had a look would like to see some pics of the place


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,134 ✭✭✭screamer


    Seriously??? that estate has been there for years and years........ just now it's noticeable ...... It was a ghost estate well over 100 houses were to be built not sure how many are completed. From what I've heard council housing is what it'll be..... just what graigue needs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    screamer wrote: »
    Seriously??? that estate has been there for years and years........ just now it's noticeable ...... It was a ghost estate well over 100 houses were to be built not sure how many are completed. From what I've heard council housing is what it'll be..... just what graigue needs.
    that estate has been there for years and years........ just now it's noticeable .

    About 6 or 7 years
    It was a ghost estate well over 100 houses were to be built not sure how many are completed.

    80 at last count 45 for each county

    From what I've heard council housing is what it'll be

    You heard correctly


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭Mr. teddywinkles


    maccored wrote: »
    the road goes out to between the numbers and springhill. You'd think they'd extend it across the barrow and out to the kilkenny road

    This is to happen and is in the works. Its to link up with the works on the Wexford rd and down onto the Dublin road. Total ring road eventually


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    This is to happen and is in the works. Its to link up with the works on the Wexford rd and down onto the Dublin road. Total ring road eventually

    isn't there now two ring roads being built? One at Ken Blacks and one around Dolman?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭Mr. teddywinkles


    tonyheaney wrote: »
    isn't there now two ring roads being built? One at Ken Blacks and one around Dolman?

    Dont know bout dolmen but proposed ken blacks route is on council website. Irs to link up with the Dublin Hackettstown link road


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    Dont know bout dolmen but proposed ken blacks route is on council website. Irs to link up with the Dublin Hackettstown link road

    do you have the link


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭Owryan


    tonyheaney wrote: »
    isn't there now two ring roads being built? One at Ken Blacks and one around Dolman?

    Isn't the roundabout out past the dolmen just to allow access to the new school complex that's being built?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,134 ✭✭✭screamer


    The road has SFA to do with the houses that road is to link to the Kilkenny road...... it's the final stretch of the outer ring road.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney




  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Niemoj


    This is the site that was up for sale for €1.25m in 2014 (link), sold for €60m back in 2006, shocking price!

    Although Graiguecullen has grown much more apart of Carlow than Laois and I'm really hoping the results of the boundary review are to move Graigue into the Carlow jurisdiction, I'm glad to see both CoCo's working together on this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Ihglcc


    I am moving into a house here :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭iano.p


    Well done tony. Many years of happiness in it for you and yours.


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