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Your favorite Irish county

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  • #32
    beerguts
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    Most beautiful place in Ireland is as you are coming down the M6 going past the Itinerant caravans after the first Balinasloe exit. The brown gray landscape, fly tipping, Irelands most boring road and with overcast weather is something to behold.


  • #33
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Pedant.

    Smallest population.
    Technically true, because Leitrim doesn't exist.


  • #34
    3d4life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 963 ✭✭✭3d4life


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    What's your favorite county in Ireland and why? (Including the occupied 6 in Munster but let's try and keep it civil)

    Mine is Leitrim. Yes, it's the smallest and no one knows why it exists as a county but I find coming across someone from Leitrim exceedingly rare.

    But when I have they've always been lovely. Genuine all round very nice people

    Plus it has great scenery!

    I'd highly recommend Carrick-on-Shannon for a visit :)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Leitrim

    The population of Leitrim in 1841 was 155,000     : o

    When did the Cavan Leitrim border get realigned ?







    Dont a lot of them dig with the other foot ?


  • #35
    Graces7
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    I started my ( so far) 20 years in Ireland in Mayo. Then Leitrim... on to Donegal, then west Cork, then Kerry.... then Galway ( Connemara) and then!

    Back HOME to Mayo....and only a few miles from where I started. AND the island life I have yearned for for years.

    Just is... ME. Hard to quantify. A perfect match. It has everything; shore, mountains, scenery... spacious and not overcrowded or over-organised ...Happy. Most of all, a rental when/ where I needed it most. I could hardly believe my good fortune .

    The other places were grand in so many ways, and there are places etc I miss greatly in each county, but nowhere could match Mayo. I am in my fifth year here and no desire to be anywhere else.


  • #36
    Lewis_Benson
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    Galway, lovely people, scenery and a great city.

    Mayo is a desolate place altogether, they avnt moved on from the 1700s.


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  • #37
    mfceiling
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    Kilkenny is a great county. Lovely people, beautiful countryside, lovely little villages and Kilkenny city is a great place to visit.


  • #38
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    favourite for what ?

    in terms of scenery = Donegal

    to live = Dublin

    overall on balance = Dublin


  • #39
    Mad_maxx
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    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    Can’t see beyond Monaghan tbh, for its natural beauty, stoney soil and stop off from Dublin-Letterkenny.

    dont forget everyone being up to some sort of crookery , no such thing as an honest monaghan man


  • #40
    [Deleted User]
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    There’s nothing in Dublin only people.


  • #41
    Parabellum9
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    Limerick cos we’re all sound and we throw the best house parties.


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  • #42
    KaneToad
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    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    There’s nothing in Dublin only people.

    Most of them not even from Dublin either!


  • #43
    Mad_maxx
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    i do like limerick i have to say , very authentic folk , no airs and graces

    galway city is full of pretentious liberals , galway county has the most clannish folk in the country, galway isnt friendly at all despite the reputation it has , i live here but i dont rate it

    i do like Mayo however


  • #44
    lcwill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 259 ✭✭lcwill


    No county in Ireland has so many great little towns, and so much beautiful nature as Cork.

    Other places have some good towns and cities, there are a few that might challenge Cork for scenery and nature, but no other county has so much of both.

    If I had to stay in one county for the rest of my life it would be Cork.


  • #45
    Mad_maxx
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    lcwill wrote: »
    No county in Ireland has so many great little towns, and so much beautiful nature as Cork.

    Other places have some good towns and cities, there are a few that might challenge Cork for scenery and nature, but no other county has so much of both.

    If I had to stay in one county for the rest of my life it would be Cork.

    it does indeed have great towns , Galways hasnt one decent town in it , the city doesnt count


  • #46
    Cluedo Monopoly
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    I think the west coast counties are by far the most interesting and scenic - Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Donegal. I would include West Cork too.

    What are they doing in the Hyacinth house?



  • #47
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    lcwill wrote: »
    No county in Ireland has so many great little towns, and so much beautiful nature as Cork.

    Other places have some good towns and cities, there are a few that might challenge Cork for scenery and nature, but no other county has so much of both.

    If I had to stay in one county for the rest of my life it would be Cork.


    It has size going for it. Very useful during Level 3 lockdown.


  • #48
    dxhound2005
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    Louth would fit into Cork 9 times, Dublin 8 times.


  • #49
    whisky_galore
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    Westmeath.





    Lol, no it isn't.


  • #50
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Cork is my favourite. Love the people, scenery, accent etc etc

    Leitrim is my favourite fictional place.


  • #51
    Kermit.de.frog
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    Is there anything to be said for Roscommon?

    500px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Roscommon.svg.png


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  • #52
    _Godot_
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    My own. Because I live in it. :)


  • #53
    Wompa1
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    it does indeed have great towns , Galways hasnt one decent town in it , the city doesnt count

    Clifden, Clonbur, Roundstone, Kilronan, Kinvara to name a few...parts of Cong are in Galway too.


  • #54
    dinorebel
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Is there anything to be said for Roscommon?

    500px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Roscommon.svg.png
    Yes you travel through it on the way to Galway.


  • #55
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    lcwill wrote: »
    No county in Ireland has so many great little towns, and so much beautiful nature as Cork.

    Other places have some good towns and cities, there are a few that might challenge Cork for scenery and nature, but no other county has so much of both.

    If I had to stay in one county for the rest of my life it would be Cork.

    I know but then the people......


  • #56
    ChikiChiki
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    Ubbquittious wrote: »
    It has size going for it. Very useful during Level 3 lockdown.

    Good point, imagine being stuck in Drogheda for level 3.


  • #57
    spring lane jack
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    Dublin, I love flying out of the airport.


  • #58
    RandomViewer
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Is there anything to be said for Roscommon?

    500px-Island_of_Ireland_location_map_Roscommon.svg.png

    No beaches?


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Can you imagine not being from Cork la?

    Last thing I see at night...
    First thing I see when I open my eyes...

    Cork.



    cork-not-cork-photo-2-310x415.jpg

    Honorary mention to Limerick. Like Cork, only not Cork.


  • #60
    Arghus
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    I like Sligo.

    Anyone I've met from Sligo was generally pretty sound.


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  • #61
    Gervais08
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    Down, where the folks are from.
    Cork, cos it’s lovely
    29 others - no real preference
    Dublin


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