**** Towns and Villages of Ireland

YupLimerick · 11-07-2018 11:53PM #1

What towns and villages in this country do ye think are just awful? In my own county (Limerick), we have Rathkeale, the inner city and more. Outside Limerick, Tipp Town is fair bad, as is Buttevant. Can't think of others atm.

Jim Bob Scratcher · 11-07-2018 11:54PM

Are you from Limerick by any chance?

pleas advice · 11-07-2018 11:55PM

In before Tralee

bear1 · 11-07-2018 11:57PM

Ballaghaderreen/charlestown/frenchpark/castlerea/ballyhaunis/tubercurry.
List is endless.

Foggy Jew · 11-07-2018 11:58PM

Ballivor, Co.Meath. The armpit of Ireland. Nay! The anal oriface of Ireland.

Diesel Weasel · 11-07-2018 11:59PM

Portarlington. The Sh1t stain on the underpants of Ireland.

YupLimerick · 12-07-2018 12:00AM

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Are you from Limerick by any chance?

Just pretending. I really admire the place. Lovely people and serious craic, so it is

YupLimerick · 12-07-2018 12:01AM

pleas advice wrote: »

In before Tralee

Been there a few times. I think it's grand. I hear it's a sh~thole though

YupLimerick · 12-07-2018 12:02AM

bear1 wrote: »

Ballaghaderreen/charlestown/frenchpark/castlerea/ballyhaunis/tubercurry.
List is endless.

Going to avoid Connacht then lol

wakka12 · 12-07-2018 12:02AM

Unfortunately there are hundreds of towns and villages across the country with no redeemable features and are all equally soul destroying

YupLimerick · 12-07-2018 12:04AM

wakka12 wrote: »

Unfortunately there are hundreds of towns and villages across the country with no redeemable features and are all equally soul destroying

There really are. The amount of places that are too small to be considered villages (like Newtwopothouse in Cork)

dxhound2005 · 12-07-2018 12:04AM

wakka12 wrote: »

Unfortunately there are hundreds of towns and villages across the country with no redeemable features and are all equally soul destroying

The thing they have in common is that you have been to them all.

ArchXStanton · 12-07-2018 12:06AM

Balbriggan... Rowdy kip

Jim Bob Scratcher · 12-07-2018 12:08AM

Ballinasloe looks fairly depressing.

12-07-2018 12:11AM

Thurles. <shudders>

Longford.

James Bond Junior · 12-07-2018 12:11AM

I come from a smallish town back west. I now live in Limerick city. Work outside a smallish Limerick town. Other half is from a large town down south. We go to a holiday home outside a small town even further south. My brother lives in a large town in the East. All mentioned towns are kips in the eyes of their inhabitants and natives, it's an Irish mentality when in reality every town has it's good bits and it's bad bits but the reality is there are many, many towns in Ireland where living and raising a family is a good thing.

YupLimerick · 12-07-2018 12:12AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Thurles. <shudders>

I've only been there on matchdays. I like it

Conservatory · 12-07-2018 12:12AM

Hey op does two people, an old fella and a single woman ever turn up annoying you in here?

YupLimerick · 12-07-2018 12:13AM

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I come from a smallish town back west. I now live in Limerick city. Work outside a smallish Limerick town. Other half is from a large town down south. We go to a holiday home outside a small town even further south. My brother lives in a large town in the East. All mentioned towns are kips in the eyes of their inhabitants and natives, it's an Irish mentality when in reality every town has it's good bits and it's bad bits but the reality is there are many, many towns in Ireland where living and raising a family is a good thing.

Which Limerick town is it? I wanna see is it a kip

12-07-2018 12:15AM

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I come from a smallish town back west. I now live in Limerick city. Work outside a smallish Limerick town. Other half is from a large town down south. We go to a holiday home outside a small town even further south. My brother lives in a large town in the East. All mentioned towns are kips in the eyes of their inhabitants and natives, it's an Irish mentality when in reality every town has it's good bits and it's bad bits but the reality is there are many, many towns in Ireland where living and raising a family is a good thing.

TBH, I'd imagine you're right. Most of the people I know who complain about small towns are single... and it's the lack of population, dating opportunities, extra activities/convenience that brings the place down.

12-07-2018 12:16AM

YupLimerick wrote: »

I've only been there on matchdays. I like it

I lived there for a few years due to work... and no... no. no. no. Never again. Doesn't matter how much someone would pay me. No.

YupLimerick · 12-07-2018 12:21AM

Conservatory wrote: »

Hey op does two people, an old fella and a single woman ever turn up annoying you in here?

Not at the moment but I'll wait and see. Might be a good laugh.

bodhrandude · 12-07-2018 12:28AM

Kiltyclogher, Mullingar, Athlone, Loughrea, Lisburn, Larne.

12-07-2018 12:33AM

bodhrandude wrote: »

Kiltyclogher, Mullingar, Athlone, Loughrea, Lisburn, Larne.

Athlone?

It's not that bad. Not wonderful but not that bad.

You might aswell include every town outside of the cities then if you're including Athlone. (Yup, I'm originally from Athlone)

I'm curious... any towns you'd consider to be good? :pac:

Canis Lupus · 12-07-2018 12:34AM

pleas advice wrote: »

In before Tralee

Tralee!!!

What a scrotefest of a town.

Stigura · 12-07-2018 12:44AM

Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

Ballinasloe looks fairly depressing.

Even the horses brought there have long faces (Boom, Boom!)

Deleted User wrote: »

Longford.

National septic tank. Twinned with Liverpool?

pleas advice · 12-07-2018 02:42AM

YupLimerick wrote: »

Been there a few times. I think it's grand. I hear it's a sh~thole though

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Tralee!!!
What a scrotefest of a town.

used to have good craic down there, but haven't been in years

mg1982 · 12-07-2018 02:54AM

bear1 wrote: »

Ballaghaderreen/charlestown/frenchpark/castlerea/ballyhaunis/tubercurry.
List is endless.

Tubber isnt a bad town its small but at least it looks in decent nick. Gurteen and ballymote on the other hand depress the life out of me. Boyle isnt a ray of sunshine either.

JupiterKid · 12-07-2018 02:58AM

Apart from a handful of tourist oriented towns, mainly in coastal areas, most medium to smaller rural Irish towns are in serious decline. The larger towns with substantial employers and commuter belt towns will probably be OK. I've posted up a thread about this already.

The process of urbanisation is speeding up and Dublin and the bigger provincial cities are sucking the life and population out of rural Ireland. I think the process is inevitably irreversible at this stage.

Atrocious/non existent strategic spatial planning is partially to blame - we had our chance with the Buchanan Report of 1968, the National Spatial Strategy in 2002 and we blew it - they weren't implemented thanks to gombeen parish pump politics.

I picture hundreds of thousands of virtually dead villages and towns and abandoned bungalow blitz one-off rural houses in my own lifetime. Much of the more marginal farming land given over to forestry and many more wind farms. I could bet a lot of money on this prospect.

mg1982 · 12-07-2018 02:59AM

Yep come back in 50 years and theres gonna be a lot of ghost towns with tumbleweed going through them.

Benildus · 12-07-2018 08:14AM

Tralee, Thurles, Rathkeale, Dundalk, Portlaoise

**** Towns and Villages of Ireland

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