Most miserable and grim towns and villages in Ireland

freshpopcorn · 19-04-2020 08:12PM

Panda Killa wrote: »

Nope..it's a kip...and full of some of the vilest people I have ever met...

Didn't Primetime do a feature a few years ago about rough areas and Glanmire was one of the places featured on it.

Panda Killa · 19-04-2020 08:14PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Didn't Primetime do a feature a few years ago about rough areas and Glanmire was one of the places featured on it.

Yeah.... drop into The Castle, local drinking establishment some time...they welcome you with a glassing

barrymanilow · 19-04-2020 08:15PM

Tuam

triggermortis · 19-04-2020 08:16PM

BrianD3 wrote: »

So many candidates. Places with narrow streets, a mix of gloomy three story buildings and more modern eyesores, long closed shops and pubs, not much tourism. Where local employment consists of food factories employing surly foreign nationals who are treated like sh*t.

Ballybay, Co. Monaghan?

Some places that are rough kips are not necessarily grim. If there is chaotic parking on a main street a place can look "bustling" E.g. Bailieborough. On the other extreme, kips with wide streets and ample parking like Strokestown get a pass.

Then there are small places that look like they have barely changed since the 1950s. Ballintra, Co Donegal
https://www.google.ie/maps/@54.5784478,-8.1246875,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stqAQqVnzbI6b4EmA6byhAQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

When I started reading this, Ballybay came straight to mind!!

Seamai · 19-04-2020 08:18PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Didn't Primetime do a feature a few years ago about rough areas and Glanmire was one of the places featured on it.

Like I said earlier that's Riverstown a mile north, sprawling new housing estates, syringes found in the kids playground, no small wonder why they'll tell you they live in Glanmire.

freshpopcorn · 19-04-2020 08:20PM

Seamai wrote: »

Like I said earlier that's Riverstown a mile north, sprawling new housing estates, syringes found in the kids playground, no small wonder why they'll tell you they live in Glanmire.

Are you trying to sell houses in Glanmire?

Deiselurker · 19-04-2020 08:27PM

Fethard in Co Tipperary is a grim looking place that looks like it's stuck in a time warp and has awful bumpy road surfaces.
I lived in New Ross over 20 years ago for a short time and it wasn't great although maybe it's livened up with the influx of Polish and other immigrants since then. It's now bypassed as well as traffic was awful there for years.

Be right back · 19-04-2020 08:29PM

Seamai wrote: »

Like I said earlier that's Riverstown a mile north, sprawling new housing estates, syringes found in the kids playground, no small wonder why they'll tell you they live in Glanmire.

I have to say that I wouldn't have thought Glanmire as being very rough.

PhilOssophy · 19-04-2020 08:30PM

Ok close the thread, re-open and name it "Nice towns in Ireland".
I bet, what one person loves the next person will call a kip.
Many towns in rural Ireland have suffered from underinvestment, rates being wasted on council expenses rather than being spent as they should be, i.e. improving the look of the town.
They are also suffering due to poor footfall on the high streets, which is partly due to people with money spending it online or in Dundrum etc.
This leaves many of these towns with scobies hanging around bookies and pubs and generally causing nuisance for people, which is a good look for now town.
Many towns are in desperate need of a clean up and a paint job and with a few nicely thought out flora and fauna.

Airyfairy12 · 19-04-2020 08:30PM

Castlerea 1000% the town should be flattened with a bulldozer.

Surprised I haven't seen Edgworthstown on the list, if you want to see a town stuck in a time warp, Edgerwortstown is it. Rooskey and Dromod are another two hellholes. They have shop fronts that look like they haven't been touched since the 1930's.

Panda Killa · 19-04-2020 08:31PM

Be right back wrote: »

I have to say that I wouldn't have thought Glanmire as being very rough.

All I'll say is, I'm glad I never have to go back

Be right back · 19-04-2020 08:32PM

Panda Killa wrote: »

All I'll say is, I'm glad I never have to go back

Fair enough!

freshpopcorn · 19-04-2020 08:32PM

Be right back wrote: »

I have to say that I wouldn't have thought Glanmire as being very rough.

PrimeTime gave it a bad rap a few years ago. Certain parts are meant to be an extension to Mayfield. Which some would consider rough.

Jonybgud · 19-04-2020 08:33PM

dublin's a kip, that is all

smelly sock · 19-04-2020 08:33PM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Castlerea 1000% the town should be flattened with a bulldozer.

Surprised I haven't seen Edgworthstown on the list, if you want to see a town stuck in a time warp, Edgerwortstown is it. Rooskey and Dromod are another two hellholes. They have shop fronts that look like they haven't been touched since the 1930's.

The midlands in or around Longford and the athlone side of Roscommon are dumps.

smelly sock · 19-04-2020 08:34PM

Athenty is another kip along with Headford.

Be right back · 19-04-2020 08:35PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

PrimeTime gave it a bad rap a few years ago. Certain parts are meant to be an extension to Mayfield. Which some would consider rough.

Yeah, Mayfield can be rough in parts. Can make the headlines for the wrong reasons.

Seamai · 19-04-2020 08:35PM

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Are you trying to sell houses in Glanmire?

No, I wouldn't want to live in the village, being on a tidal estuary I think it will have problems down the road.

Seamai · 19-04-2020 08:37PM

Be right back wrote: »

Yeah, Mayfield can be rough in parts. Can make the headlines for the wrong reasons.

It can be but I'd say it's far from the roughest part of the city.

the dark phantom · 19-04-2020 08:37PM

Spencer Brown wrote: »

Because unless they levelled the place in the meantime it won't have improved :pac:

It got worse in the last twenty years. These places don't the population to support thriving towns and most of the people who have the power or means to effect change in these towns don't actually live in them so they have no incentive to do anything.

Ray Donovan · 19-04-2020 08:39PM

Calahonda52 wrote: »

The road surface has been fixed so as they have a nice welcome for the new residents who have made a wonderful cultural contribution to the village

I can't figure out if there's sarcasm or not in this post...?

ShamNNspace · 19-04-2020 08:40PM

barrymanilow wrote: »

Tuam

Could you expand a bit did you get a bad pint there one time or what?

Sultan of Bling · 19-04-2020 08:46PM

flazio wrote:

Rathkeale, County Limerick. Close the thread here.

Never been there boss but would have thought it would feature a lot more than it has.

LiquidZeb · 19-04-2020 08:47PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I grew up in a small West of Ireland town, and am a regular visitor back to Ireland, especially during the summer months. My own town wouldn't even be a particularly awful one, by the admittedly low standards it would be compared against.

It's the whole package of small town Irish life that fills me with horror. The lack of ambition inherent in a decision to live in one of these awful places. The nosiness, the resentment, the jealousy that emerges as your mind starts to warp during to lack of intellectual and cultural stimulation. The boarded up shops and pubs, the decay, the fading signs, the empty butcher, the sadness. Gormless looking men standing in a pub door sharing a rollie cigarette. Fat-arsed women wearing a O'Neills tracksuit pushing a trolley around the local Supervalu while two peanut-headed children follow her around. The Wrangler bootcut jeans, Superdry jackets, and checked shirts. The acceptance of 3rd world levels of dental hygiene amongst the populace. The pints of cider while playing pool in a ran down pub on a Tuesday night.

Yeah I know I fcuking dread it myself. I'm fecking off to Germany ASAP

Sober Crappy Chemis · 19-04-2020 08:47PM

Jonybgud wrote: »

dublin's a kip, that is all

Looks like you really hate CAPITALS so much.

smelly sock · 19-04-2020 08:49PM

Carnew.

Mic drop.

19-04-2020 08:52PM

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

You live in Roscommon. Nuff said.

Still a good few steps up from Dublin, where I lived for 30 years.

Sober Crappy Chemis · 19-04-2020 08:56PM

smelly sock wrote: »

Athenty is another kip.

Wow wie the fweilds of Athenty.....

Ubbquittious · 19-04-2020 08:57PM

Shannon Town. Looks like some social engineering experiment gone wrong

Galwayguy35 · 19-04-2020 08:58PM

barrymanilow wrote: »

Tuam

It used to be but it's actually not a bad town now at all.

Most miserable and grim towns and villages in Ireland

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