Kiltyclogher

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly · 03-08-2017 11:41PM #1

Would you move to Kiltyclogher? They're short of people according to today's news.

I couldn't be arsed moving there.

There is an €8 blow-dry for women available:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/leitrim-village-issues-appeal-for-people-to-come-live-there-1.3175871

Ubbquittious · 03-08-2017 11:48PM

I'd go

Much prefer to live on an island though. Like Inishturk or Whiddy also suffering acute population decline

Zaph · 03-08-2017 11:53PM

Never heard of the place until I saw the article earlier. Population is 223 and it's in the complete arse end of nowhere. Sounds horrific.

uck51js9zml2yt · 03-08-2017 11:55PM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I'd go

Much prefer to live on an island though. Like Inishturk or Whiddy also suffering acute population decline

How about living on Ireland?;)

EmoCourt · 03-08-2017 11:55PM

Lovely part of Ireland. Rolling hills and tranquil lakes. Nevin Maguires restaurant not too far away for the best food in Ireland. Enniskillen for shopping, Marble Arch, Florencecourt, Culcaigh Mountain, the Shannon Pot.

Really nice place.

Noveight · 03-08-2017 11:59PM

Sweet FA jobs there, I'd imagine.

feargale · 04-08-2017 12:35AM

EmoCourt wrote: »

Lovely part of Ireland. Rolling hills and tranquil lakes. Nevin Maguires restaurant not too far away for the best food in Ireland. Enniskillen for shopping, Marble Arch, Florencecourt, Culcaigh Mountain, the Shannon Pot.

Really nice place.

Right on, man. Leitrim people are the nicest in Ireland, very laid back and friendly. The best of 1950's Ireland. Sligo and Bundoran not too far away. I haven't been in Kiltyclogher for a very long time but I remember walking across the border from there to the village of Garrison. You can shop either side of the border. Over all else, a stress-free life.

eviltwin · 04-08-2017 12:59AM

Not a hope in hell. I know leitrim well, gorgeous part of the world but the locals can be a bit too traditional.

andekwarhola · 04-08-2017 01:01AM

It's up there with with Drumshambo for most culchie town name of all time.

andekwarhola · 04-08-2017 01:04AM

EmoCourt wrote: »

Enniskillen for shopping,

Why didn't they say that before.

Bags packed.

sligojoek · 04-08-2017 01:07AM

I worked there for two weeks about 15 years ago. It was very bleak back then. Al the locals were very suspicious of us. I wouldn't go back there unless I had to.

04-08-2017 01:09AM

andekwarhola wrote: »

It's up there with with Drumshambo for most culchie town name of all time.

The people of Mucklagh, Skeheenarinky, and Hackballscross are looking at you askance.

feargale · 04-08-2017 01:14AM

eviltwin wrote: »

Not a hope in hell. I know leitrim well, gorgeous part of the world but the locals can be a bit too traditional.

Yes, that's what I said, the best of 1950's Ireland. Good honest people who wouldn't do you for a euro. Good traditional music too. Unfortunately the hurling is at the lower end of the scale. But I'm told they all get ringside seats in the great hurling stadium in the sky.

And unlike those posh Cuala hurlers in Dublin, when they do eventually win the All-Ireland they won't be celebrating with prawn sandwiches and Chateau Margaux. They hate pretentiousness up there. It'll be bottles of Guinness and crubeens all the way. You'd like that, wouldn't you?
BTW what do you think is too traditional about them?

andekwarhola wrote: »

It's up there with with Drumshambo Drumshanbo for most culchie town name of all time.

FYP. What would you be doing up there when you couldn't even get your post delivered?

Are Am Eye · 04-08-2017 01:18AM

I take it they're laying on a job, a house and a mot for the prospective immigrant?

feargale · 04-08-2017 01:26AM

Noveight wrote: »

Sweet FA jobs there, I'd imagine.

FA jobs? You're confusing Kiltyclogher with Manchester.

eviltwin · 04-08-2017 01:34AM

feargale wrote: »

Yes, that's what I said, the best of 1950's Ireland. Good honest people who wouldn't do you for a euro. Good traditional music too. Unfortunately the hurling is at the lower end of the scale. But I'm told they all get ringside seats in the great hurling stadium in the sky. And unlike those posh Cuala hurlers in Dublin, when they do eventually win the All-Ireland they won't be celebrating with prawn sandwiches and Chateau Margaux. They hate pretentiousness up there. It'll be bottles of Guinness and crubeens all the way. You'd like that, wouldn't you?
BTW what do you think is too traditional about them?

FYP. What would you be doing up there when you couldn't even get your post delivered?

I spend a bit of time there and its very 1950's as you say with similar attitudes in some cases. Not all of course, most are fine and don't care, but its enough that it would impact on your life I'd say.

diomed · 04-08-2017 02:09AM

It sounds like an appeal to the unemployed because I doubt there is much work for new arrivals.
Using Google maps I found out it is 400 metres from the border.

To quote John Cooper-Clarke "Its like a fairytale .... Grimm"

WoollyRedHat · 04-08-2017 03:13PM

Only if I can become lord mayor on arrival and sit in a throne.

bear1 · 04-08-2017 04:08PM

Would I ****.
I used to live in Ballaghaderreen so that's my **** hole place crossed off my list.

Conor Bourke · 04-08-2017 04:13PM

Ubbquittious wrote: »

I'd go

Much prefer to live on an island though. Like Inishturk or Whiddy also suffering acute population decline

You might meet a girlie who doesn't spook at the suggestion of a camping trip or a spin up the mountains with a stranger though. Imagine the possibilities!

testicles · 04-08-2017 04:15PM

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bear1 · 04-08-2017 04:17PM

testicles wrote: »

I was getting excited there for a second...

It's what you were thinking, they merely dry ya afterwards.

bodhrandude · 04-08-2017 05:35PM

Didn't they have the county fleadh there a few times.

04-08-2017 05:43PM

I wonder what the broadband is like. Is it arse-end of nowhere 2Mbits? If so, I'll pass.

Where Im from in Rural-but-near-a-main-road Galway, the broadband is pretty pathetic, topping off at about 4Mb. In Rural-not-even-a-main-road-goes-there Sligo, I think I'll pass. Even if you can buy a five bedroom house for 36 cent and a bag of wagonwheels.

MilesMorales1 · 04-08-2017 05:54PM

But why would you move somewhere with no jobs or amentities?

bodhrandude · 04-08-2017 05:59PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

But why would you move somewhere with no jobs or amentities?

I suppose if they made the scenery edible, it might be worthwhile.

AMKC · 04-08-2017 06:35PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I wonder what the broadband is like. Is it arse-end of nowhere 2Mbits? If so, I'll pass.

Where Im from in Rural-but-near-a-main-road Galway, the broadband is pretty pathetic, topping off at about 4Mb. In Rural-not-even-a-main-road-goes-there Sligo, I think I'll pass. Even if you can buy a five bedroom house for 36 cent and a bag of wagonwheels.

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I wonder what the broadband is like. Is it arse-end of nowhere 2Mbits?

On the news it said the broadband there was quite good and there was a women moving from Dublin to there who had a graphics design business.

04-08-2017 09:17PM

AMKC wrote: »

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I wonder what the broadband is like. Is it arse-end of nowhere 2Mbits?

On the news it said the broadband there was quite good and there was a women moving from Dublin to there who had a graphics design business.

"Quite good". Quite good for where?

Maybe the village has a gigabit pipe. Except a gigabit shared between 225 users is... about 4Mbits each.

odyssey06 · 04-08-2017 09:23PM

I think I'd prefer exile in Burnley... "The UK town where average house prices are just £70,311."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/uk/uk-town-average-house-prices-just-70311-nine-affordable-property/

I could afford a season ticket to Burnley in the Premier League...

DoozerT6 · 04-08-2017 10:24PM

Currently ONE house for sale there, according to Daft...

04-08-2017 10:28PM

DoozerT6 wrote: »

Currently ONE house for sale there, according to Daft...

So they do joined up thinking in Kiltyclogher as well as, well, everywhere else in Ireland.

Do a national campaign to introduce new people to the area, hoping a few chose to move and integrate into the village, and then the 4 families who decide to end up squabbling over the only available house.

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