Guess the Village/Town/City Thread 3 (read post 1)

Three More Big Sleeps

Splendid clue altogether, Grumpy. You lulled me into a false sense of security with focail Ghaeilge - which I fixated upon - only to whip the carpet from beneath me.

Truckermal wrote: »

Great to see the thread alive again!

Yes, yes, it is.

More churches, please.

williestroker1

Someone else can take a go.

GrumpyMe

A cathedral no less!

feargale

GrumpyMe wrote: »

A cathedral no less!

Kilfenora? Take it away if I'm right.

GrumpyMe

Right first time!

lassykk

Taking the opportunity when the winner offered it up.

Used to be an old main road which is hard to believe nowadays.

josip

That's Slieve Rue

lassykk

josip wrote: »

That's Slieve Rue

It is indeed

josip

byhookorbycrook

The Heath?

josip

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

The Heath?

Not the Heath and not Co. Laois.

byhookorbycrook

Feic, I'm sure I have passed here. Hill in background is very distinctive

Truckermal

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Feic, I'm sure I have passed here. Hill in background is very distinctive

That truck is from Ballyragget parish so I'm thinking Munster somewhere.

Three More Big Sleeps

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Hill in background is very distinctive

#specsavers

The triangular, pyramid-like hill? I'd decided that was roof of the building in the left mid distance. Grr.

Actually, I think the whole landscape is very distinctive for Ireland. It's what I imagine a dusty town in the middle of the American midwest - Nebraska, maybe - looks like after hours of riding the blacktop through endless fields of corn.

I'm defo intrigued by this one.

byhookorbycrook

That's why I thought it was the Heath. Or maybe the Curragh, but this is driving me mad!!!

Three More Big Sleeps

Crap, does the "no chat" rule apply to this thread? If so, apologies

Hmm, the only two flat-as-a-pancake places that spring to mind are somewhere in the peat-fields of Westmeath or somewhere near Carrick-on-Shannon.

josip

Sorry, I forgot the last few posts were about a pic I'd posted
The pyramidal structure on the left is the roof of a building.
If that's a Ballyragget truck, then it's 110km from home (by road)

Here's a close up for those who have a soft spot for church architecture

byhookorbycrook

josip wrote: »

Sorry, I forgot the last few posts were about a pic I'd posted
The pyramidal structure on the left is the roof of a building.
If that's a Ballyragget truck, then it's 110km from home (by road)

Here's a close up for those who have a soft spot for church architecture

ooppps!

Our Lady's Island.

Taken from the island itself

josip

TheTorment wrote: »

Our Lady's Island.

Taken from the island itself

Well done, a lovely spot and as a kid I always enjoyed the walk around the 'island'


https://goo.gl/maps/KhJNsHJHbUu


Your go.

Someone else can post one...

byhookorbycrook

Arghhhh! How did I not think of it !! Well done .

byhookorbycrook

Anyone have one?

lassykk

Here's one.

It's an iconic part of my teenage years and when I got to this junction I knew we were just there. Not the most famous part of the area so hopefully not too hard but going on past experience here it will be gotten in about 2 guesses!

Green&Red

Wexford?
Somewhere like Oilgate?

blackwhite

Wellingtonbridge?

josip

Hmnn, Kilkenny people go to Wexford for

• hurling matches (not every year in Wex Park though).
• Strawberrry fair
• Beaches, usually Duncannon or perhaps Slade for the bourgeois.

But not many Kilkenny people would go to Curracloe on the east coast.

Fairly far and you might run into Dublin people.

lassykk

josip wrote: »

Hmnn, Kilkenny people go to Wexford for

• hurling matches (not every year in Wex Park though).
• Strawberrry fair
• Beaches, usually Duncannon or perhaps Slade for the bourgeois.

But not many Kilkenny people would go to Curracloe on the east coast.

Fairly far and you might run into Dublin people.

You are two from two on my pics! Impressed it was gotten so quickly from a picture of that junction!

Curracloe is just one of the nicest beaches in Ireland and great camping spots so that's what attracted us there in our teen years!

josip

Being from the south east helps


I've left in the street name in this one.

Reminded me of the rural town put down, "...the Main St, the further up you go the mainer it gets".

Mefistofelino

Foynes
(The replica flying boat gives it away)

josip

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Foynes
(The replica flying boat gives it away)

Well done.
It's only a give away when you know it's the tail end of a flying boat


Your turn.

Mefistofelino

Time for another church. This village has the usual two and is significant in the history of a third.

byhookorbycrook

Rosenallis?

Mefistofelino

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Rosenallis?

Well, that didn't last long!

Fire away.

byhookorbycrook

Lived on the Laois/Offaly border for a bit , so knew it from then . If anyone has a picture ready to go , fire ahead .

Three More Big Sleeps

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Lived on the Laois/Offaly border for a bit , so knew it from then . If anyone has a picture ready to go , fire ahead .

Sigh. Fair play, hooks.

If you squint, turn down the lights, ignore the sheds on the left, rotate the church a wee bit clockwise and throw in some potholes, I could've sworn that was Carrowreigh in Wexford.

feargale

Mefistofelino wrote: »

Well, that didn't last long!

Fire away.

What's the significant history of a third church. That had me looking at the Palatine area of West Limerick.

Purple Mountain

Kitty6277

Doon?

Purple Mountain

Yes Kitty!

Kitty6277

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Yes Kitty!

Aw class, I hardly ever know any of these!

If anyone has one ready to go, fire away

Mefistofelino

feargale wrote: »

What's the significant history of a third church. That had me looking at the Palatine area of West Limerick.

As well as an RC and CoI church, it was once a Quaker village.

Purple Mountain

If it's too difficult, I'll give a clue soon.

Oops!

Templemore.

GrumpyMe

St Marys CoI Templemore
https://www.google.ie/maps/@52.7993694,-7.8303061,3a,37.5y,7.41h,95.47t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sBFWO-BpaAVrU1kbbu_IjTg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!9m2!1b1!2i38

Purple Mountain

Oops! wrote: »

Templemore.

You're too good!

You're up now.

Oops!

Somebody else can take my go.

Purple Mountain

Since noone else is going, I'll try again but mine seem to be very easy!

Rows Grower

Valentia?

byhookorbycrook

Achill Island, Kildavnet Graveyard,one of Gráinne Mhaol's castles in the background.