Ireland’s most ‘Father Ted’ tourist attraction

Was just in Easkey this morning and came across this stunning addition to the Wild Atlantic Way. Accompanied by a brown tourist sign and a 4.4 rating on google (yes, a 4.4)

So wondered what other examples there are out there of ‘Father Ted’ like attractions. Needs to be recognised on google or trip advisor, preferably with a rating, and extra credit if it has its own sign.

And maybe even a legend (in this case, said to have been cast here by Fionn Mac Cumhal from the summits of the Ox Mountains during a giants stone-throwing competition)

Rawr

"The Wonderful Barn" in Leixlip. The name alone makes me think of "The Magic Road" on Craggy Island.

https://www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_Review-g212515-d2690198-Reviews-Wonderful_Barn-Leixlip_County_Kildare.html

Sort of a tourist attraction in theory, and mostly gets mentioned in Leixlip due to the few other landmarks there being generic grand houses (that are usually off limits). The Wonderful Barn is wonderfully placed as far away as you can get from Leixlip Village while still being in the Leixlip area, and is wedged between housing estates and the M4.

Apparently built as a "folly" to provide work during the Famine and appears to mark a boundary to the lands of Castletown House in Celbridge. (You'll see a tree line go directly from that house to the Wonderful barn on Google maps)

fryup

The Matt Talbot bridge, 4.5 google rating

a bridge in our capital city named after a mentally deranged fella who used to go around wrapped in chains and carried a kitten in his pocket cause he was allergic to cats, a sort of self-imposed punishment 🤪 mad altogether

*was the inspiration for Mattie Hislop

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117818995#Comment_117818995

And then there's Croagh Patrick

whisky_galore

The entirety of Knock.

A village whose claim to fame was the hallucinations of a few local simpletons spawning a religious tat mini industry and an airport.

Ballinaspittle, Knock minus the tat sales and airport.

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117820474#Comment_117820474

No I won't have that

But look at it there. Pure class.

giants causeway,very very overrated

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117820948#Comment_117820948

I agree. And yet look at the reviews it gets….

magicbastarder

the monument to nothing in recess.

https://www.geograph.ie/photo/381638

fryup

^^8 km from 'Gowl'a 🤗

Pawwed Rig

The Dublin Bus ghost tour. Absolute amateur hour at top dollar

blue note

https://g.co/kgs/VvB8pZ

The magic Road in Waterford. I imagine the inspiration behind the actual magic Road in father Ted.

In defence of it, I've been on it and released the handbrake. And it really does feel like you're rolling uphill. It's really cool. I obviously did it a few times and recommended it to people as something to do in Waterford.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821191#Comment_117821191

Something akin to Trotters Ethnic Tours springs to mind….

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117820948#Comment_117820948

From the 18th century.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see

• Dr Samuel Johnson

sligojoek

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821235#Comment_117821235

There's supposed to be one of them up here near Ben Bulben. I've tried it a few times. It doesn't work.

Deregos.

The Seven Wonders of Fore in County Westmeath include, the monastery in the bog, the mill without a race, the water that flows uphill, the tree that has three branches, the tree that won't burn, the water that won't boil, the anchorite in a stone and the stone/lintel raised by St Fechin's prayers.

interlocked

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117820474#Comment_117820474

I'd be very interested in your analysis, as to show why many random people apparently suffered hallucinations, at the same time in a remote rural village, utterly unprompted, and yet described the same visual scenario subsequently in two investigations, and maintained their stories on their death beds.

It may well have been some sort of magic lantern projected on the gable of the church, but your casual arrogance is pitiful.

lawred2

Fun's over lads. Go home now.

interlocked

"hallucinations of a few local simpletons"

Edgy stuff.

Don't Chute!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821579#Comment_117821579

You believe that happened and you call HIM pitiful? Wow!

Wildly Boaring

The Echo gate in Trim

It's a gate with an echo off the landscape.....

Working class heroes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821579#Comment_117821579

Please don’t knock this thread.

Working class heroes

https://visitwicklow.ie/listing/cronebane-the-mottee-stone/

Another stone.

_Brian

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821579#Comment_117821579

“Magic lantern”🤣🤣🤣🤣

blade1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821492#Comment_117821492

It probably needs to be plugged out and back in again.

mariaalice

Local pride along with deluded locals and county council heritage and tourism officers are the reason of for a lot of it.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821665#Comment_117821665

Fionn was certainly hurling a few boulders around back in the day….

Ljmscooter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821579#Comment_117821579

Mushrooms

dreamers75

Leprachaun Museum off jervis Street (if still open)

magicbastarder

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.2919626,-8.199275,3a,75y,211.88h,95.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szVEI9HQ7rA2GdQzVQeseXw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821872#Comment_117821872

2 stars

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821579#Comment_117821579

Whatever buddy, have a great day for yourself.

The Davestator

The National Wax Museum is a national embarrassment. I cringe when I see tourists heading for it.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821948#Comment_117821948

Any wax museum worldwide really, why anyone would want to take pics of a fake figure of a celebrity in a darkened room is beyond me.

xper

Well if it is large grey objects sitting in a field off a country lane in the middle of nowhere and are on tripadvisor that you're looking for:

https://www.tripadvisor.ie/Attraction_Review-g1459421-d4154464-Reviews-Father_Ted_s_House-Burren_National_Park_The_Burren_County_Clare.html

magicbastarder

it must confuse a lot of tourists who think they're headed south west.

_Brian

Laugh at this thread.

I passed the Fr Ted house today and took a selfie there. Just for a laugh with my nephew in Canada as he’s a massive Fr Ted fan.

it’s literally a farmers house in a field, and there me taking photos 🙄

jmlad2020

Fungie was essentially this. Only in Ireland would he be personified as much as he was; and missed. There will be shrines next.

HBC08

Great thread!

happyoutscan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117820474#Comment_117820474

I'm not religious so my thinking was that it was the work of a lamp of some sort. That's another discussion though.

There's a few simpletons that use this site as well by the looks of it...

Parachutes

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821235#Comment_117821235

It’s really good. Got some laugh off it.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058206349/ireland-s-most-father-ted-tourist-attraction

4.4 out of what, 4.5 ???

that rock is only a 4.3 in my view.. the angle of the crack is another 6 degrees off what I’d term affluently culturally adorable.... so only 4.3..

retalivity

It doesnt happen anymore and it was kinda covered in Father Ted already but the Daniel O'Donnell tea party was weird as hell.

Pity it doesn't continue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdgNJGwC6WQ

Be right back

The Blarney stone comes to mind.

Carfacemandog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117821492#Comment_117821492

There's one a little past the Merry Ploughboy in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains. I can't remember exactly where, but went there as a teenager and it is indeed real. I have a vague memory of it being very close to Rockbrook school.

chosen1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117844638#Comment_117844638

I've been to one of those magic hills outside Jenkinstown in Louth and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was.

Fully aware of the fact that it is an optical illusion but it is a damned good one at that and did have me wondering if it was in fact genuine.

Economics101

I nominate the plaque on O'Connell Bridge in memory of Father Pat Noise: surely an inspiration for the writers of Father Ted:

Loafing Oaf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117844845#Comment_117844845

Was someone trying to contact him on his new wireless telegraph machine when it happened?

sligojoek

https://images.app.goo.gl/Au65WZUbTCGxvmEr6

https://images.app.goo.gl/Au65WZUbTCGxvmEr6

sligojoek

Jesus. The site is fcuked.

Tried for 10 minutes to embed this pic.

StupidLikeAFox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117844307#Comment_117844307

Of all the covid casualties, surely this is fucked. Hundreds of people a day queuing up to kiss the same bit of rock, it was actuallly pretty disgusting regardless of covid