Your favorite Irish county

Gervais08 · 30-11-2020 03:12AM

Arghus wrote: »

I like Sligo.

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

My aunty was from there and pronounced it Schhhhligo. Loved her saying it that day!!

Married a Caaaaavan man.

Man I love this country !!!

ILoveYourVibes · 30-11-2020 03:51AM

This is no contest. Dublin.

My blood is blue.

Any sorrow in my heart is healed by the cry of 'up the dubs'.

Walking the keys ..i feel alive.

There are ghosts in the air ...ether ..i feel they are reaching down my throat ever time i breathe.

We are a town full of pirates.

Dublin is hard and soft in all the right places.

Its a dark deep pool.

At one point it was called Devlin ...because we have a bit of the devil in us

Its both dark and light and every shade of the valley of the uncanny in between.

The river of the great north south divide and the four quarters around her.

Its home.

30-11-2020 05:53AM

My least favourite would be Limerick..

topper75 · 30-11-2020 10:12AM

artanevilla wrote: »

I don't judge places on arbitrary lines drawn by the Brits.

Nor should you.

The GAA is a fine organisation and all but they have a lot to answer for in that respect. They perpetuated the imposition in cultural terms.

It was also remiss of the new Irish state not to re-do the local authority boundaries.

Trouser Snake · 30-11-2020 10:16AM

ChikiChiki wrote: »

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

Some shower of langers.

Bob Harris · 30-11-2020 10:19AM

Arghus wrote: »

I like Sligo.

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

Useless in a call centre though.

bocaman · 30-11-2020 10:27AM

Have to say Galway. The city, Aran Islands and Connemara. Cant beat it.

Next would be Mayo and third Sligo, a place just crying out to be explored.

El Tarangu · 30-11-2020 10:47AM

bocaman wrote: »

Have to say Galway. The city, Aran Islands and Connemara. Cant beat it.
Weather is shocking, though

Next would be Mayo and third Sligo, a place just crying out to be explored.

I think this must be the most under-rated county in Ireland in terms of scenery and everything - Galway and Donegal hoover up most of the plaudits, but Sligo is really beautiful.

Cluedo Monopoly · 30-11-2020 10:48AM

bocaman wrote: »

Have to say Galway. The city, Aran Islands and Connemara. Cant beat it.

Next would be Mayo and third Sligo, a place just crying out to be explored.

Sligo is a hidden gem. So much diversity for a small county.

Gardesana Pecher · 30-11-2020 10:50AM

Longford. I was asked to recite the twenty six counties once. I managed to get twenty five. Longford was the one that I could not for the life of me remember. But who in their right mind would.

Howard Beale · 30-11-2020 10:53AM

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

Clare, a beautiful and friendly county, Kilkee the highlight

Easily the nicest county in Ireland and lovely stunning town Kilkee is

Mad_maxx · 30-11-2020 11:11AM

Wompa1 wrote: »

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

those are all villages bar clifden

Wompa1 · 30-11-2020 11:47AM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

those are all villages bar clifden

Fair enough. Athenry, Oranmore, Oughterard and Clifden.

The only sh1tty towns I can think of are Ballinasloe and Tuam.

Thelonious Monk · 30-11-2020 11:57AM

Dublin, because it has all the stuff and has the closest thing we have to a real city.
And Sligo, because I can get to Strandhill in about 2.5 hours, and it's beautiful around there and doesn't have the same diddley-eye touristy thing going on that you get in Kerry and other places in the west.

Cluedo Monopoly · 30-11-2020 11:59AM

Wompa1 wrote: »

Fair enough. Athenry, Oranmore, Oughterard and Clifden.

The only sh1tty towns I can think of are Ballinasloe and Tuam.

Actually Tuam once got a city charter and is very interesting from a historical point of view. It has 2 cathedrals.

Strumms · 30-11-2020 12:18PM

I think Wexford. Our family have friends there, been going since I was a kid. The beach by Grangecourt / Fethard on Sea, early evening in late July or anytime is stunning...sun beginning to set...the quietness, tranquility...super people, super beautiful place...

Wompa1 · 30-11-2020 12:18PM

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Actually Tuam once got a city charter and is very interesting from a historical point of view. It has 2 cathedrals.

It is an interesting place. Not the prettiest.

Mad_maxx · 30-11-2020 12:22PM

Wompa1 wrote: »

Fair enough. Athenry, Oranmore, Oughterard and Clifden.

The only sh1tty towns I can think of are Ballinasloe and Tuam.

whats good about athenry bar it has a train leaving it ?

oranmore is really just greater galway , it hasnt nor has it ever had any individual original character , its new money entirely

Wompa1 · 30-11-2020 12:22PM

Clare

Kilkee, Spanish Point, Ballyvaughan, Fanore, The Burren, Miltown Malbay, Doolin, Lahinch, The Cliffs of Moher.

I'd give Kerry and Donegal a shout too but Clare ahead of them. Helps that it's an easy drive to Galway, Limerick and Shannon too.

Wompa1 · 30-11-2020 12:30PM

Mad_maxx wrote: »

whats good about athenry bar it has a train leaving it ?

Athenry Castle, the archway in the town, the river running through it, very good Hurling team, golf course and accessible due to motorway and train station.

Rrrrrr2 · 30-11-2020 12:36PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

My least favourite would be Limerick..

No offence to anyone from limerick but I have to agree- while there’s some pretty countryside it’s overall pretty drap- endless flat wet fields full of rushes in parts.
Wicklow is beautiful, Leitrim is the hidden gem for me- you hear nothing much about it but it’s a gorgeous county and Carrick on Shannon is one of Ireland’s nicest and best set towns by the Shannon

Shannon Erne canal waterway is another underused gem. Walks along it and you can do some water activities too on the likes of Lough Allen I

Rrrrrr2 · 30-11-2020 12:41PM

mfceiling wrote: »

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

I’m so biased as I live there but the countryside is beautiful with rolling farmland and the river valleys. A person I worked with from Holland said to me before it’s the Ireland she had an image of her in head. Down by Inistioge, Thomastown and into new Ross are lovely.
All the south east Carlow Wexford Waterford and Wicklow have some lovely countryside and often off the beaten track too

Rrrrrr2 · 30-11-2020 12:46PM

Gardesana Pecher wrote: »

Longford. I was asked to recite the twenty six counties once. I managed to get twenty five. Longford was the one that I could not for the life of me remember. But who in their right mind would.

I’m going to defend Longford here- the town was turned into a ghetto and it gets a bad name.
But there is some lovely spots by the Shannon, Ardagh, Cairn Hill, Lanesborough and of course the new Centre Parks is a massive coo for them and Westmeath

IAMAMORON · 30-11-2020 12:48PM

Well it definitely isn't Cork anyways.

Thanks for asking btw.

Rrrrrr2 · 30-11-2020 12:59PM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Well it definitely isn't Cork anyways.

Thanks for asking btw.

As a Kilkenny man we were supposed to hate cork lol but I just can’t do it - the people are so friendly down there- they’ll chat away to you at the drop of a hat, have a great positive outlook on life, great work ethic and attitude- always a pleasure to work with cork people in my experience in work and business.
County itself speaks for itself - it’s beautiful and a lovely place to visit

EmmetSpiceland · 30-11-2020 01:03PM

bocaman wrote: »

Have to say Galway. The city, Aran Islands and Connemara. Cant beat it.

Too many liberals.

Airyfairy12 · 30-11-2020 01:53PM

Rrrrrr2 wrote: »

No offence to anyone from limerick but I have to agree- while there’s some pretty countryside it’s overall pretty drap- endless flat wet fields full of rushes in parts.
Wicklow is beautiful, Leitrim is the hidden gem for me- you hear nothing much about it but it’s a gorgeous county and Carrick on Shannon is one of Ireland’s nicest and best set towns by the Shannon

Shannon Erne canal waterway is another underused gem. Walks along it and you can do some water activities too on the likes of Lough Allen I

Id hardly call Carrick on Shannon a town, its more of a village. Nice to pass through but wouldn't want to stay there for too long.

BattleCorp · 30-11-2020 01:55PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

I find coming across someone from Leitrim exceedingly rare.

I hope you at least apologise and wipe it off when it does happen.

Andrewf20 · 30-11-2020 02:12PM

Donegal for me. I used to venture up there a few years back on my own with the mountain bike in the boot in the dead of winter. Not a soul around and barely any tress but heaps of atmosphere. Malin Beg is one of the many highlights, below. The walls that surround the water inlet create a strange echo. Not a sinner on the beach when I was there last in January 2008.

Mad_maxx · 30-11-2020 03:28PM

Wompa1 wrote: »

Athenry Castle, the archway in the town, the river running through it, very good Hurling team, golf course and accessible due to motorway and train station.

so do countless rural towns

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