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Poshest Irish island?

  • 12-06-2017 12:37am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,313 ✭✭✭


    Of the 500+ islands off the coast of Ireland some are obviously posher than others. Most don't have anyone living on them which makes them a bit harder to be posh. Although not impossible

    Inish Turk Beg seems quite posh

    So does Inisheer. It might not have the million dolla 'pad' but houses aint cheap there. A sizeable barge used to call there, courtesy of Irish water keeping the tanks topped up. Everyone there seems to be on holidays. Well-to-do teachers trying to pass the 3 months, people with holiday homes. Much of the banal everyday working life seems to be blisfully absent from this island.

    Then there's Rathlin. Full of day trippers sitting on the terrace with their pints waiting for their meal to come out. But which is the poshest? Phone now to get your vote in early.. 1550 915 ...


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    Looks class


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    me hole.

    Galway without a regular means of escape.

    did you bring the monopoly?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Probably not River Island.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    endacl wrote: »
    Probably not River Island.
    boom boom

    Howth ?

    Dalkey island?? (although nobody lives there now )


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    I would say Howth.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Howth aint an Island, it's a peninsula.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Jesus Wept wrote: »
    Howth aint an Island, it's a peninsula.
    still posh :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    new poshest peninsula thread is badly needed


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    i dont know any posh islands i got no monies to go there :o

    the one haughey bought ??:)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Jesus Wept wrote: »
    new poshest peninsula thread is badly needed
    posh places ? posh is an island state of mind! :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    Go to Clare Island and it's got all these rust bucket cars tooting along. Apparently they don't need NCT there. It might have changed since though.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Actually which was the island Haughey bought out of curiosity?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Technically its lambay,it's owned by the baring family,second only to the rothschild family in terms of wealth and influence. Whiddy island just off Bantry is a fully operational oil terminal again,but the islanders wouldn't benefit much from it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Technically its lambay,it's owned by the baring family,second only to the rothschild family in terms of wealth and influence. Whiddy island just off Bantry is a fully operational oil terminal again,but the islanders wouldn't benefit much from it.
    Lambday is a wildlife sanctuary or something no? No one is allowed on it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Technically its lambay,it's owned by the baring family,second only to the rothschild family in terms of wealth and influence. Whiddy island just off Bantry is a fully operational oil terminal again,but the islanders wouldn't benefit much from it.
    http://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/to-rent-a-piece-of-paradise-off-dublins-coast-30371099.html

    This guy owned it for a while . Lord Revelstoke


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    The current Lord Revelstoke, the seventh, known to his friends as Alex Baring, wants to attract wealthy tourists to this island destination, when it is not being used by his family

    http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/private-isle-an-irishman-s-diary-about-lambay-island-1.2583426


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Lambday is a wildlife sanctuary or something no? No one is allowed on it.

    Its possible to visit,but only by appointment. Interesting little aside regarding lambay,a few breeding pairs of wallabies were introduced to the island at some stage and are still thriving to this day.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Its possible to visit,but only by appointment. Interesting little aside regarding lambay,a few breeding pairs of wallabies were introduced to the island at some stage and are still thriving to this day.
    I know they were nearing extinction at the time or something. Other wildlife too not just wallabies. :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    I think you have to be really rich to visit ...super rich tourism package holidays :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    I think you have to be really rich to visit ...super rich tourism package holidays :P

    Nah not really,just got to be involved in the rspb (Royal society for protection of birds) or have a bit of dirt on one of the members of said society and it can be arranged easily enough.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Fota


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    or have a bit of dirt on one of the members of said society and it can be arranged

    It kind of ruins the allure dirt is cheap....:P
    Ah I am kidding i don't know anyone and am unlikely too :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    Now all I can think about is The Wicker Man.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    There's a tiny islet in the middle of a lake nearish here, it's on the way to one of the "big" towns (I live way out in the west of Ireland, "big town" is relative). Just a house on this rock. The islet is so small that the three-storey house is basically the entire island.

    Pretty posh-looking, but you wouldn't want to be the sleep-walking type!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Now all I can think about is The Wicker Man.
    I wonder how they get supplies on islands ...in that film it's hard actually ..



    I love that film :P


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Is ireland an Irish island? how posh are we?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Craggy.

    Mods, you can close the thread now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    Lambay Island.

    It's got names like Lord Revelstoke and Cecil connected to it.

    Also wallabies.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/private-isle-an-irishman-s-diary-about-lambay-island-1.2583426


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    fatknacker wrote: »
    Lambay Island.

    It's got names like Lord Revelstoke and Cecil connected to it.

    Also wallabies.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/private-isle-an-irishman-s-diary-about-lambay-island-1.2583426


    British people make everything more posh automatically...you just need one on your road to make the price of your house go up!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Now THERE Is a money making scheme ....get lots of British people to live on your road! CHA CHING!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Bere island, we're all fierce posh down my way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Now all I can think about is The Wicker Man.

    Now all I can think of is Britt ekland in wicker man.Sweet mother of God... No silicone or saline jobs back in 1973.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭Rachiee


    +1 for Lambay, its completely privately owned, invite only for a visit and has wallabies FFS! Wallabies in Ireland! How posh can you get!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    the one haughey bought ??:)

    One of the Blaskets. Innisvickillane(sp?). The family still own it, I think.

    Wouldn't say it's too posh. Think there's little on it except a small cottage, nesting birds and an imported herd of deer. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Jesus Wept wrote: »
    Howth aint an Island, it's a peninsula.

    It's not a peninsula either. It's a tombolo


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    One of the Blaskets. Innisvickillane(sp?). The family still own it, I think.

    Wouldn't say it's too posh. Think there's little on it except a small cottage, nesting birds and an imported herd of deer. :D
    Lol how are they allowed to still own that after what all that came out??


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    jamesbere wrote: »
    Bere island, we're all fierce posh down my way

    How about this one, near Adrigole.

    https://m.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/roancarrigmore-island-castletown-berehaven-cork-west/3676245


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    They all look dreary ...we need warm sunny ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,385 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Fota Island. Those Giraffes are completely up their own arse.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    richard_necker_roof_full_width_1.jpg

    I love this one :) It's Richard Branson's island :P

    https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/how-i-bought-necker-island


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Lol how are they allowed to still own that after what all that came out??

    Last I read about it, the family still owned it.

    I've always wanted to see it for some reason but obviously I never will :pac:


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Last I read about it, the family still owned it.

    I've always wanted to see it for some reason but obviously I never will :pac:

    It's a bit bleak. I have been on a couple of Blaskets in addition to the Great Blasket, a couple have ruins eg. Inishnabro and Inishtooskert. Tearaght looks spectacular but only accessed by helicopter, would love to get out there.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    I would have to go to a luxury warm island..


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    No rain!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Now all I can think of is Britt ekland in wicker man.Sweet mother of God... No silicone or saline jobs back in 1973.
    Britt was a stunner alright. Sweet mother of God indeed. Her boobs are in the flic, but not her bum. She had a stunt arse. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Britt was a stunner alright. Sweet mother of God indeed. Her boobs are in the flic, but not her bum. She had a stunt arse. :D
    I loved that film ...apparently the stunt arse was because she would not let the director shoot from the waist down as she was pregnant but in the early stages and worried it would show as she was carrying low. (sorry if that is too much info)



    Love this scene :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    It's so weird though ..it's a totally diff arse...mayeb she was worried about the media just going on about her bum....keep the mystery etc!

    Keep em guessing!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Always thought the scene a small bit...gratuitous. It almost overwhelms the film, as the first thing anyone says when you refer to the film is "Britt Ekland...that scene".

    Ironically, it's one of the films where Ingrid Pitt kept all her clothes on...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


    Oh actually i am wrong she was just insecure about her body.

    http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12767429.Ekland_reopens_controversy_of_the_mystery_rear/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,313 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious



    Posh because you simply need a helicopter if you want to live on it.
    I passed by very close to that one but landing was too dodgy despite the weather being not that bad. The jetty is quite exposed so if you went to Super Valu in Castletownbere for your shoppings by boat and conditions worsened while you were gone you could easily end up camping on the shore for the night.

    Or you could throw yourself down on a couch in a forgotten corner of the Skipper's bar for the night


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