shabby towns

kerry cow

I drove from south kerry to wexford via limerick yesterday and must say tip town is the shabby town of ireland .its shop fronts are worn out looking and it's streets are like a roller coaster .
It gives out the vibe of keep going don't stop here .
What going on down there ???

pedigree 6

kerry cow wrote: »

I drove from south kerry to wexford via limerick yesterday and must say tip town is the shabby town of ireland .its shop fronts are worn out looking and it's streets are like a roller coaster .
It gives out the vibe of keep going don't stop here .
What going on down there ???

What did you think of New Ross?:)

kerry cow

New Ross is quite scenic with the river and the tall ship .We mostly go round on the outside but there has been a lot of good works along the quays .
The kilkenny side could do with a tidy up especially the old industrial buildings .
What do you think pedigree .??

Grueller

Tipp town is rough enough looking alright. There are a few of these towns around though. Mountrath is another that springs immediately to mind.
New Ross is a dying town. The loss of the fertiliser industry and the docks doing little business have left it decimated. Also those Celtic Tiger apartment blocks on the Kilkenny side of the bridge are an eyesore.

bennyineire

Eh whats this got to do with Farming & Forestry

kerry cow

Tip town is a kip .moon coin was a nice village yesterday , like Adare , kenmare and Kinsale all spring to mind . Jp mc needs to splash a bit of paint in tip town and stand them a few wheel bars of tar .!!!

kerry cow

bennyineire wrote:

Eh whats this got to do with Farming &

Just a observation of the towns we pass and stop to eat in during the course of our work , sometimes traveling the country .
Just a observation of the good lands of tip but the poor representation the people have from the politicians they voted in .
Just the poor good will of the town or council or committee to show chase there locality.

pedigree 6

bennyineire wrote: »

Eh whats this got to do with Farming & Forestry

Farmers wondering where's a good place to buy an apartment.:)

pedigree 6

kerry cow wrote: »

New Ross is quite scenic with the river and the tall ship .We mostly go round on the outside but there has been a lot of good works along the quays .
The kilkenny side could do with a tidy up especially the old industrial buildings .
What do you think pedigree .??

Ah well that's the old Albatross fertiliser plant.
There were a few sheds around built with the pillars from that site.:p

They had to take all the asbestos off the roof and ship it abroad (I think).
All the business in Ross is out on the ring road now.
The Council are fair tidy though and keep going. Fair dues to them.
They are the best council district in the county.

davidk1394

kerry cow wrote: »

Tip town is a kip .moon coin was a nice village yesterday , like Adare , kenmare and Kinsale all spring to mind . Jp mc needs to splash a bit of paint in tip town and stand them a few wheel bars of tar .!!!

Ya should have called in for tae while you were on the road. Tipp town is an absolute dive of a place along with Rathkeale and Edenderry

degsie

Ah Tipp, the land of Michael Lowry.....'nuff said.

kk.man

kerry cow wrote: »

Tip town is a kip .moon coin was a nice village yesterday , like Adare , kenmare and Kinsale all spring to mind . Jp mc needs to splash a bit of paint in tip town and stand them a few wheel bars of tar .!!!

Mooncoin village is not as nice as it seems (book and cover comes to mind). Carrick On Suir not great either.

davidk1394

kk.man wrote: »

Mooncoin village is not as nice as it seems (book and cover comes to mind). Carrick On Suir not great either.

Carrick isn't too bad now. But still fùck all to do in the place.

_Brian

Most towns are dieing a death.
When's he crash happened allot of the owner occupied shops closed their doors, many of these remain closed.

Those that reopen are typically tenant ran shops and the business levels just aren't there to pay rent and sustain a business given insurance, rates, esb and every other cost, as owner occupant shops they were just getting by and so the rent is the killer blow to any new business.

Above shops the shopkeepers accommodation is empty and the shopkeepers moved outside the towns to better accommodation, but the nature of how the shops were incorporated into the living accommodation they are unsuitable to rent out, many wouldn't meet fire standards being first and second floor.

So these shops and accommodation are empty, there is no revenue to maintain how they look and the general area looks worse and worse.

Cavan has many such towns, Killeshamdra, Arva, Ballinagh, ballyjamesduff, Bailieborough, Kingscourt, all grubby shadows of their former selves.

kerry cow

What's ballymahon like ? Used to be a bit dull .
Ya you would mind a village been dull but in fact they are not .But a town called after its county is a bit limb.
What the capital of tipperary ? Clonmel I presume

feargale

"And I’d rather be strolling along the quay,

And watching the river flow,

Than growing tea with the cute Chinee,

Or mining in Mexico.

And I wouldn’t much care for Sierra Leone,

If I hadn’t seen Killenaule,

And the man that was never in Mullinahone

Shouldn’t say he had travelled at all”

from THE TWO TRAVELLERS

by C.J BOLAND.

einn32

Tipp town has moved. It's out the Limerick Rd now! You have a huge shopping centre and then a petrol station with pizza etc across the way. Times have moved on. Tipperary used to have a thriving mart scene. A.lot of agricultural service businesses too. It's dead now with most shops for sale or rent. Few betting shops and aldi/lidl is all that's in the centre. Super valu too.

It was the same in Australia. Country towns are gone.

I said

kerry cow wrote: »

What's ballymahon like ? Used to be a bit dull .
Ya you would mind a village been dull but in fact they are not .But a town called after its county is a bit limb.
What the capital of tipperary ? Clonmel I presume

Ballymahon Is booming with centre parcs setting up beside it.

MF290

Mountmellick always strikes me as dead and dull when I pass through

charolais0153

Dunmore

Who2

_Brian wrote: »

Most towns are dieing a death.
When's he crash happened allot of the owner occupied shops closed their doors, many of these remain closed.

Those that reopen are typically tenant ran shops and the business levels just aren't there to pay rent and sustain a business given insurance, rates, esb and every other cost, as owner occupant shops they were just getting by and so the rent is the killer blow to any new business.

Above shops the shopkeepers accommodation is empty and the shopkeepers moved outside the towns to better accommodation, but the nature of how the shops were incorporated into the living accommodation they are unsuitable to rent out, many wouldn't meet fire standards being first and second floor.

So these shops and accommodation are empty, there is no revenue to maintain how they look and the general area looks worse and worse.

Cavan has many such towns, Killeshamdra, Arva, Ballinagh, ballyjamesduff, Bailieborough, Kingscourt, all grubby shadows of their former selves.

I do a lot of work around the cavan area brian and id agree with you on some of the towns but we were working on the main street in Bailieborough and i would have put it down as a town that is well on the mend, kingscourt is a booming wee town too, between Kingspan, lagan goup, O reilly concrete and hangar doors, a new secondary school being built and nearly all the shop units now back in action, i wouldnt really say they are shadows of their former selves. Now killeshandra and arva are wrecked and id throw in belturbet, but id say theres hope for bally duff.

Suckler

charolais0153 wrote: »

Dunmore

+1 pitiful looking spot. Would drain the life out of you driving through it.