Horrid Smell (Hansfield / Ongar Area)

Jammyd

Anyone know what the disgusting smell is the last 2 days around Hansfield Train station, the house wreaks and it would knock you out if you open the window or go outside :eek:

Gaspode

Slurry I'd say, the country is swimming in the stuff over the last week or 2, but at least a bit of rain is on the way so that'll dampen down the pong a good bit..

KGLady

Its carrying right down the Ongar Rd now too, first I knew was the kids squabbling over who was the stinker that used the upstairs bathroom I went up and nearly keeled over, the bang of Farm Animal Assholes was stomach turning. Was at least relieved that it was coming in the open windows and it wasn't one of the children. Its horrific.

Jammyd

I think its Pig Slurry which is the worst - on top of the dry weather which is making it worse... the whole place stinks, of course am sure the farmers need to do it for crops etc but I don't think we've ever had it this bad seems much stronger than anytime before you'd be knocked out with it once you open a door or window!! surely theres some laws on proximity of spread to residential areas i would have thought ?

ongarite

The houses have got closer to the farms not the other way around.
The farmer is doing what he has always done just there are now people living within the nosezone..

Jammyd

ongarite wrote: »

The houses have got closer to the farms not the other way around.
The farmer is doing what he has always done just there are now people living within the nosezone..

Yeah very true!! won't be much farmland in the next years when the Barberstown site starts after they have finished squeezing out their profits on the Hansfield lands

lalababa

Slurry especially pig slurry is fairly smelly. Before industrialised pig production in Ireland circa 1960s/70s, the pigs would be kept on solid floor mixed with straw. The pig manure /straw mix when spread would be less airborne(more solid) but still smell a bit. If you want any pork related product you have to put up with the smell around this time of year. And if you want cheap pork products you have to put up with the industrialization of farming. So basically suck it up.

LorelaiG

Caught it yesterday driving down the back road from Clonee to Ongar on my way to work and nearly passed out with the smell.

Pat Dunne

In fairness to the vast majority of Farmers, they usually do not spread Slurry until the forecast is for rain within the next 24 hours.
Funnily enough I enjoy the waft of that fine Agricultural Smell and I’m a Dub!

ongarboy

Funny, I strolled up and around Hansfield station yesterday evening and all I got was the sweet smell from the bakery beyond Hansfield.

Larbre34

Similar complaint every year around this time in the 12 years I've been here, to a greater or lesser extent depending on the amount of rain.

Its a small price to pay for being the beneficiaries of all that lovely fresh rural air on our doorstep all year round. Incidentally, whatever new developments are in the pipeline won't cancel out the thousands of acres in Kildare and Meath fertilised by slurry just a couple of kms away.

raheny red

I could get a waft of it in the Corduff area around lunch time. Could only imagine what it was like in Ongar.

Bargain_Hound

As said already, seems to happen every year, but we thought it was pretty intense this time around.

Jammyd

Bargain_Hound wrote: »

As said already, seems to happen every year, but we thought it was pretty intense this time around.

Likewise! seems to have died down thankfully over the last few days - back to the heavenly fresh bread smell / dust and dirt from all the nearby construction sites

Pat Dunne

Bargain_Hound wrote: »

As said already, seems to happen every year, but we thought it was pretty intense this time around.

I feel the reason it was noticeable this year, is because the vast majority of us are spending most of our time at home.

avalidusername

It's the same every year, farmers can only spread slurry when there's dry weather forecast, otherwise it washes into the rivers/canals and makes sh1t of everything there.

There seems to be 2 different streams of the smell in my 19+ years working in Damastown Industrial Estate, one comes from the Kilbride direction in a few weeks, the current one is from the Lucan/Leixlip direction.

From what I've been told by the countryside lads in work, the really sweet smelling awful one is pigsh1te. There was an incredibly awful one last year, it literally smelled like dog sh1te, but I've no idea what it actually was.

Yes I checked my shoes and I wasn't after dragging sh1te in before anyone asks!