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Most miserable and grim towns and villages in Ireland

Infernal Racket

There are many towns and villages in Ireland which just seem to have got left behind in the 40s or 50s. For me, the following towns are the worst I've seen. Granard, Co Longford, stuck in a time warp it can't escape from. Rathdowney in Laois is not far behind. Third I'd go for Castlerea in Roscommon, they still have a travelling cinema which visits once in a while. What are your experiences of towns that time forgot??

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Seamai

Mountmellick
Tipperary
Tralee
Kilgarvan
Ballybunion
Carrick on Suir
Bundoran

GrumpyMe

Clontibret - you need to turn up the heating in the car as you drive through...

Seamai

Xertz wrote: »

Perhaps it's improved, but I really couldn't warm to Bundoran. The towns near by were lovely but just something oddly 'draining' about it.

Have to agree, Donegal town and even Ballyshannon are far nicer.

Better Than Christ

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I really like Bray, just sayin'!

Horrible place, horrible people (no offence to anyone who lives there, but you're horrible). The seafront is slightly less shit than it used to be, but away from that the town has nothing but traffic and supermarkets.

JohnnyFlash

The village of Killimor between Portumna and Loughrea in Galway.

Knock

Edenderry

Dundalk

jackboy

tastyt wrote: »

Cashel is a nice little town, tourism keeps a buzz in it in summer.

Chair is ok

Terryglass and Ballina are lovely on the water

Yes, cashel is nice. Cahir is fine, nothing special but not bad.

Don’t know Terryglass.

Slim pickings in Tipp but at least there is some.

All that fandango

Oh yay another thread on a topic thats already been done to death on here.

Slim Charles

Better Than Christ wrote: »

If there's a bigger shithole than Bray, I've yet to visit it.

I never undersatdn this hatred for seaside towns that ireland and the UK share, I love Bray probably the best of this countries seaside towns, across the sea Margate, Brighton and the much lamented Brighton are all good fun. Not sure what people expect from these places, perhaps spoiled by cheap flights and years of holidays in Spain, Turkey etc...be nice to see some of these places rejuvenated with holidaymakers over the next year or two as I imagine many will be reluctant to travel abroad.

I will grant you some of these towns don't exactly go out of their way to maintain the upkeep of buildings, but I'd sooner a Bray/Courtmacsherry/Scarborough to a Macroom or Thurles any day of the week.

That being said, I nominate Macroom, Thurles & Durrow.

whisky_galore

Knock looks like some craic, drove through it once, shops hawking religious tat from end to end.

corks finest

Slim Charles wrote: »

I never undersatdn this hatred for seaside towns that ireland and the UK share, I love Bray probably the best of this countries seaside towns, across the sea Margate, Brighton and the much lamented Brighton are all good fun. Not sure what people expect from these places, perhaps spoiled by cheap flights and years of holidays in Spain, Turkey etc...be nice to see some of these places rejuvenated with holidaymakers over the next year or two as I imagine many will be reluctant to travel abroad.

I will grant you some of these towns don't exactly go out of their way to maintain the upkeep of buildings, but I'd sooner a Bray/Courtmacsherry/Scarborough to a Macroom or Thurles any day of the week.

That being said, I nominate Macroom, Thurles & Durrow.

Macroom,Bandon,lots innCarlow,Laois,and kildare

Thelonious Monk

Better Than Christ wrote: »

Horrible place, horrible people (no offence to anyone who lives there, but you're horrible). The seafront is slightly less shit than it used to be, but away from that the town has nothing but traffic and supermarkets.

Well most towns are just traffic jams in Ireland tbf.

Slim Charles

Seamai wrote: »

Mountmellick
Tipperary
Tralee
Kilgarvan
Ballybunion
Carrick on Suir
Bundoran

Excellent shout, what a dross town. Really has nothing going for it, and I love Kerry.

alchemist33

Happy4all wrote: »

It's so long since I've been outside, I've forgotten what everywhere looks like.

Haven't you seen the photos of wildlife returning to the streets, Tyrannosaurs roaming the countryside etc?

JohnnyFlash

Slim Charles wrote: »

Excellent shout, what a dross town. Really has nothing going for it, and I love Kerry.

It has a world class golf course.

whisky_galore

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

It has a world class golf course.

Cos everyone plays golf, right?

Slim Charles

corks finest wrote: »

Macroom,Bandon,lots innCarrlow,Laois,and kildare

I don't think I've ever even been to Carlow.

I think alot of towns would look a whole lot better without those daft green or blue bookmaker shops. And I like a bet, but those places just attract the doldrums of society and look **** also.

Seamai

Slim Charles wrote: »

I never undersatdn this hatred for seaside towns that ireland and the UK share, I love Bray probably the best of this countries seaside towns, across the sea Margate, Brighton and the much lamented Brighton are all good fun. Not sure what people expect from these places, perhaps spoiled by cheap flights and years of holidays in Spain, Turkey etc...be nice to see some of these places rejuvenated with holidaymakers over the next year or two as I imagine many will be reluctant to travel abroad.

I will grant you some of these towns don't exactly go out of their way to maintain the upkeep of buildings, but I'd sooner a Bray/Courtmacsherry/Scarborough to a Macroom or Thurles any day of the week.

That being said, I nominate Macroom, Thurles & Durrow.

I've never spent much time in Macroom but pass through it pretty regularly, it always strikes be as being a lively place, I'd prefer it to Bandon or Fermoy.

Sober Crappy Chemis

Cork Village.

Itssoeasy

The last few times I was in youghal in east cork it was dreary as **** and given the history in the town and a potential rail link they are tearing up for a greenway they are making no effort.

Better Than Christ

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

It has a world class golf course.

A big playground for men in silly trousers.

Slim Charles

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

It has a world class golf course.

It doesn't though, it's well outside the town, you can call it Tralee all you like but you've to go through other villages to get there.

Slim Charles

Itssoeasy wrote: »

The last few times I was in youghal in east cork it was dreary as **** and given the history in the town and a potential rail link they are tearing up for a greenway they are making no effort.

Winner.

kksaints

New Ross and Enniscorthy are both fairly grim.

JohnnyFlash

Better Than Christ wrote: »

A big playground for men in silly trousers.

What a playground though, dude.

Women play it as well btw.

EmmetSpiceland

Are we talk the island of Ireland or just the “republic”?

If it’s the 32 counties, it has to Portadown. A thoroughly joyless “dump” populated with miserable, angry, people.

Dundalk if it’s RoI only. Awful place, awful accent.

ThePiedPiper

Dundalk is a woeful kip. Smelly, covered in dog dirt, miserable I’m pretty much every respect.

Dufflecoat Fanny

Ballinasloe

whisky_galore

Itssoeasy wrote: »

The last few times I was in youghal in east cork it was dreary as **** and given the history in the town and a potential rail link they are tearing up for a greenway they are making no effort.

A kids amusement arcade (Perks)... concrete animals with various limbs missing on the top of the facade slap bang next to a crumbling former factory building. Elsewhere, a boarded up hotel, curtains flowing in the breeze through shattered windows.
It's like a glimpse of Pripyat. Pripyat On Sea.

Better Than Christ

Slim Charles wrote: »

I never undersatdn this hatred for seaside towns that ireland and the UK share, I love Bray probably the best of this countries seaside towns, across the sea Margate, Brighton and the much lamented Brighton are all good fun. Not sure what people expect from these places, perhaps spoiled by cheap flights and years of holidays in Spain, Turkey etc...be nice to see some of these places rejuvenated with holidaymakers over the next year or two as I imagine many will be reluctant to travel abroad.

I will grant you some of these towns don't exactly go out of their way to maintain the upkeep of buildings, but I'd sooner a Bray/Courtmacsherry/Scarborough to a Macroom or Thurles any day of the week.

That being said, I nominate Macroom, Thurles & Durrow.

Bray's proximity to the sea gives it so much potential. The absolute state of the place though. I'd almost go as far as to say I prefer Wicklow Town or, fuck me, Arklow.

whisky_galore

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Are we talk the island of Ireland or just the “republic”?

If it’s the 32 counties, it has to Portadown. A thoroughly joyless “dump” populated with miserable, angry, people.

Dundalk if it’s RoI only. Awful place, awful accent.

Portydown...a town built around a church, bonfire and a bus stop.