Where is rural Ireland.

farmchoice · 01-10-2019 03:38PM #1

one of the most common phrases these days is Rural Ireland. it is a subject of constant discussion here and across the media in general.
But where is it?
is it everywhere outside Dublin? is it only places that dont have street lights?

it has a bit of a Brexit quality to it, it means different things to different people. the average resident of even a small Irish town does not consider themselves a rural dweller, yet there are probably many people that would consider Galway city to be in rural Ireland.

Ray Palmer · 01-10-2019 03:43PM

If some culchie thinks because the live in a town they don't live in rural Ireland that is their problem.

Zamboni · 01-10-2019 03:47PM

If you zoom out on Google Maps satellite images its everywhere that isn't a depressing grey.

Bob Harris · 01-10-2019 03:49PM

It's where people don't have to remember when it was all fields.

Effects · 01-10-2019 03:49PM

Zamboni wrote: »

If you zoom out on Google Maps satellite images its everywhere that isn't a depressing grey.

So the Phoenix park is considered rural now?

Utter Consternation · 01-10-2019 03:49PM

I read the thread title in Ali G's voice for some reason.

bodhrandude · 01-10-2019 03:50PM

Ehhh! Fields, meadows, bogs, hills, mountains and seaside, country roads.

D3V!L · 01-10-2019 03:51PM

Basically everyone outside of the The Pale and the other cities (whatever they maybe)

EmmetSpiceland · 01-10-2019 03:53PM

D3V!L wrote: »

Basically everyone outside of the The Pale and the other cities (whatever they maybe)

Wouldn’t even include the other “cities”. It’s pretty much anywhere outside the M50, not including the North.

topper75 · 01-10-2019 03:53PM

Our Great Father in the east has made many empty promises to our people. He makes a treaty and we have peace. But then he announces a post office closure. We make a new peace treaty and he closes a Garda station or builds an Aldi trading post at the edge of town just beyond the hurling field. What will become of our people?

Gerry Mór O'Rourke
Great chief of the Roscommannii Sioux, 1876

gifted · 01-10-2019 03:58PM

Where family love takes on a whole new meaning....

Ruraldweller56 · 01-10-2019 04:00PM

Well hell that's where I live son.

Mr. Incognito · 01-10-2019 04:02PM

September 1913

What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone;
For men were born to pray and save:
Rural Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

Vita nova · 01-10-2019 04:03PM

Definition of Rural from National Spatial Strategy (CSO and OECD use similar definitions)
Quote:
“Rural” is defined as District Electoral Divisions (DEDs) with no population centre above 1,500 people, with a population density below 150 per sq. km, and which are not part of an urban district or borough, ie it broadly refers to open countryside and rural villages.

Ray Palmer wrote: »

If some culchie thinks because the live in a town they don't live in rural Ireland that is their problem.

Well, if someone thinks that a person is automatically a "culchie" because of where they live or where they are from then they are automatically a wanker.

Ray Palmer · 01-10-2019 04:11PM

Vita nova wrote: »

Well, if someone thinks that a person is automatically a "culchie" because of where they live or where they are from then they are automatically a wanker.

Well it pretty much goes with the definition the culchie is going to be from a particular type of location. They aren't going to be from Ballymun are they?

Your Face · 01-10-2019 04:44PM

Its where you have a local shop for local people.

Vita nova · 01-10-2019 04:45PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Well it pretty much goes with the definition the culchie is going to be from a particular type of location. They aren't going to be from Ballymun are they?

No, but while all thumbs are fingers not all fingers are thumbs.

Ray Palmer · 01-10-2019 04:51PM

Vita nova wrote: »

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Well it pretty much goes with the definition the culchie is going to be from a particular type of location. They aren't going to be from Ballymun are they?

No, but while all thumbs are fingers not all fingers are thumbs.

Jasus just accept you used a particular bad way to argue a point against a joke. Now one of my fingers is up but I can assure you it isn't a thumb, can you hazard a guess✌

ToddyDoody · 01-10-2019 05:11PM

Anywhere there's an agricultural college.

The Tetrarch · 01-10-2019 05:13PM

Anywhere they moan about Dublin.

jmayo · 01-10-2019 05:41PM

It must be the place that moronic very anti one off housing urbanite gobshyte Emaon Ryan reckon he can put wolves.

And to think some eejits see the green party as our saviours.

God deliver us from gobshytes.

01-10-2019 05:41PM

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Anywhere they moan about Dublin.

Yeah that what it seems to mean in its most common context. Anywhere people have a delusion that everything is somehow better in the Dublin and that they're all alone when it comes to crime and access to services

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 01-10-2019 05:43PM

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Anywhere they moan about Dublin.

So yiz could eliminate culchies by stopping being so feckin headwrecking, is what you're saying? :pac:

uck51js9zml2yt · 01-10-2019 05:47PM

Its outside my house

We're just back from back garden picking the last of the blackberry's

Marcusm · 01-10-2019 05:52PM

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

September 1913

Changing Romantic to Rural does not make it so!

washman3 · 01-10-2019 05:54PM

It's the place where some people from the cities and larger towns dump their rubbish.;)

Mad_maxx · 01-10-2019 05:55PM

It's as much cultural as a case of numbers, take Galway

Somewhere like maree looks rural but the vast majority who live there now in one off houses are blow ins with professional jobs in Galway city, it's not rural in the way somewhere like glenamady is where most are seed, breed and generation

01-10-2019 06:04PM

It similar to the phrase D4 it's more a cultural idea that a real place.

galwayllm · 01-10-2019 06:10PM

If you're not a west Brit you're a cultie... According to them.

Harry Palmr · 01-10-2019 06:18PM

Rural ireland is defined as being a place you might be able to afford a house if you could find one.

elperello · 01-10-2019 06:20PM

Any small town, village or crossroads with a pub that opens in the daytime - example Drumlish.

Where is rural Ireland.

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