"Up" to Dublin, but "down" to Cork, "Over" to England etc.

pj9999

We never seem to go simply 'go' anywhere.

We seem to go "up" to Dublin
Down to Cork,
Over to London,
Into town,
Out to Another place,
Back to [BackOfBeyondsPlace]

What other words do yalls use to supplement 'Go' when travelling somewhere?

frozenfrozen

Round to my place

punisher5112

Quit your jibba jabbin....


I ain't got time for this......

verycool

Ride me sideways.

Mackerel and Avocado Sandwich

I live in Dublin so all of those things are geographically correct so that’s what I say

milehip

Come outta my way to F*uck!!!

Samuel T. Cogley

Beyond the Pale
Get t' ****
Come the **** in or **** the **** off.

donegaLroad

Head out, headin over

Sofiztikated

Stall over. Stall round to mine.

SeamusG97

Down the pub. Not in this country we don't. We go out for a pint.

Sofiztikated

SeamusG97 wrote: »

Down the pub. Not in this country we don't. We go out for a pint.

But are you out, or out out?

SeamusG97

Ah no. Go out . Not Come out. Mind you there's quite a few elderly bachelors frequenting the pubs of Ireland that didn't ]
Me I'm a happily henpecked husband.

Omackeral

I love that people in Donegal can geographically go down to Northern Ireland. Of course we all go down standards-wise when we visit there but they can literally do it as well. Fantastic.

Flash ahaaaa

Flyin, I'm just flyin into town..on the bus

Charlie19

Under the table.

Omackeral

Flash ahaaaa wrote: »

Flyin, I'm just flyin into town..on the bus

Why do we say ''on the bus'' but ''in'' a taxi?

penno

I am a thread snoop, and I have to say I like this thread!
Keep them coming!!:)

Up, down and over to places, but if it's someone you fancy and you're lucky enough, you get to go 'off' with them. What's that all about?

donegaLroad

Omackeral wrote: »

I love that people in Donegal can geographically go down to Northern Ireland. Of course we all go down standards-wise when we visit there but they can literally do it as well. Fantastic.

Everyone else in the south can go up to Down.... wah wah wahhh

Allinall

Beyond in the top field.

Westernyelp

Out to the kitchen. in to the bedroom

Spanish Eyes

Culchies all of ya. Ha ha.

For us lovely Dubs it is always "down the country" doesn't matter if it is N S E or W it is always down there somewhere.

I'm sure you culchies have some words for Dublin. Let's be hearing ya now!

Try_harder

Omackeral wrote: »

I love that people in Donegal can geographically go down to Northern Ireland. Of course we all go down standards-wise when we visit there but they can literally do it as well. Fantastic.

Is it at a lower elevation?

Try_harder

Omackeral wrote: »

Why do we say ''on the bus'' but ''in'' a taxi?

On a plane!

splinter65

pj9999 wrote: »

We never seem to go simply 'go' anywhere.

We seem to go "up" to Dublin
Down to Cork,
Over to London,
Into town,
Out to Another place,
Back to [BackOfBeyondsPlace]

What other words do yalls use to supplement 'Go' when travelling somewhere?

If you live in North Tipp then you would go to visit someone in hospital “below in Clonmel”.
When the psychiatric hospital was there you would regularly hear a harassed mother admonishing a bold child with the barb “ will you stop for Gods sake you’ll have me below in Clonmel !”.

Are Am Eye

splinter65 wrote: »

If you live in North Tipp then you would go to visit someone in hospital “below in Clonmel”.
When the psychiatric hospital was there you would regularly hear a harassed mother admonishing a bold child with the barb “ will you stop for Gods sake you’ll have me below in Clonmel !”.

So what you're saying is that you are north riding.
And sometimes you would go south riding.

Omackeral

Try_harder wrote: »

Is it at a lower elevation?

No, there are parts that are geographically more northern than Northern Ireland. Donegal is in colour here, The North is in white.

FanadMan

We'd use up to Letterkenny but down to Dublin. Where I live we have to go through Letterkenny to go anywhere!

Day Lewin

I go 'round to the doctor, across to the shop. In to the neighbour. Back to the house.
Busy little round trip.

Try_harder

Omackeral wrote: »

No, there are parts that are geographically more northern than Northern Ireland. Donegal is in colour here, The North is in white.

North isnt always up from south though. Thats a misconception

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been-different

stimpson

I used to work with a lad from Newry. He used to go up to Down.

Are Am Eye

Try_harder wrote: »

North isnt always up from south though. Thats a misconception

The earth moves on it's axis.
The tectonic plates move around as well.

Are Am Eye

stimpson wrote: »

I used to work with a lad from Newry. He used to go up to Down.

Try_harder

Are Am Eye wrote: »

The earth moves on it's axis.
The tectonic plates move around as well.

Putting the north on the top is just stylisation you could equally put East West or South as the top mark, with the other 3 in the corresponding positions

dxhound2005

I'm only after being over beyant at the shop fornenst the garage.

Are Am Eye

You are always in a helicopter.
Yet sometimes people are in a plane. But more often they are on a plane.
'i saw that movie on the plane last year'

dxhound2005

If you couldn't get on a plane, you would never be able to get off it.

the_syco

pj9999 wrote: »

What other words do yalls use to supplement 'Go' when travelling somewhere?

Down; to go there.
Up; to come back from there.

Optimalprimerib

My mother says down the north

sligojoek

splinter65 wrote: »

If you live in North Tipp then you would go to visit someone in hospital “below in Clonmel”.
When the psychiatric hospital was there you would regularly hear a harassed mother admonishing a bold child with the barb “ will you stop for Gods sake you’ll have me below in Clonmel !”.

In Nenagh we used to say "Down South"

Where's John these days?

I heard he's gone "down south" again.

topper75

sligojoek wrote: »

In Nenagh we used to say "Down South"

Where's John these days?

I heard he's gone "down south" again.

...and he weren't playing no harmonica on no plantation either.

valoren

It's based on your frame of reference in the 3 dimensional space per the spherical co-ordinate system.

If I'm in Dublin then that is my 'original' point reference O in 3 dimensional space below.



So from my reference frame, I don't give you vector co-ordinates because that would be confusing and weird. So instead I generalise and say I am going DOWN to Cork or UP to Belfast or OVER to London.

Each city, from point O, would get their own spherical co-ordinates i.e the radial distance between Cork and Dublin (O to P) , the polar angle between both on the earth and the azimuthal angle between the two and that would let you know what to say. And given that while the earth rotates at a constant velocity (i.e. it doesn't acclerate) and we know Cork and Dublin don't themselves move and this reference frame is thus inertial.

Bummer1234

I live on the border in cavan and we say "Goin down the north" if we are heading to fermangh...We were heading north but it was only down the road from us so thats where that came from.

splinter65

Are Am Eye wrote: »

So what you're saying is that you are north riding.
And sometimes you would go south riding.

Below in Clonmel south riding to be exact.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

In Kerry, for some reason, to go west within the county is to go 'back' somewhere, e.g. "I was back in Dingle for the weekend" or "Oh, that pub is back in Lispole".

I never got that.

SeamusG97

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

In Kerry, for some reason, to go west within the county is to go 'back' somewhere, e.g. "I was back in Dingle for the weekend" or "Oh, that pub is back in Lispole".

I never got that.

It's from the Irish - "Ag dul Siar" siar can mean both back or west

Capt'n Midnight

Try_harder wrote: »

Putting the north on the top is just stylisation you could equally put East West or South as the top mark, with the other 3 in the corresponding positions

Having North-South works out quite well on a Mercator projection though. Because you couldn't sail through the polar ice sheets.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Try_harder wrote: »

North isnt always up from south though.

In Dundalk it used to be Up to Dublin (south) and down to Belfast (north). It stemmed from the days of the railway works in the town. There are two main rail lines called the Up Line and the Down Line. Trains towards Dublin used the down line, Belfast trains ran on the Up line.

Going Up the Town, or Down the Town were used more or less equally, no matter what area you were coming from.

amcalester

Augustus Prickly Stereoscope wrote: »

In Dundalk it used to be Up to Dublin (south) and down to Belfast (north). It stemmed from the days of the railway works in the town. There are two main rail lines called the Up Line and the Down Line. Trains towards Dublin used the down line, Belfast trains ran on the Up line.

Going Up the Town, or Down the Town were used more or less equally, no matter what area you were coming from.

Saw this thread and immediately thought of growing up in Dundalk and going up to Dublin/down to Newry.

Never knew why we said it that way.