Irish places with ironic names??

11-02-2021 01:53PM

Nenagh, but it's very quiet

dennyire · 11-02-2021 02:00PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

There’s a ‘Mountain View Road’ in Ranelagh. Not sure if it’s “ironic” or just false advertising.

It was there before they built up Clonskegh, Goatstown, Dundrum Sandyford etc ...so probably had a mountain view

dennyire · 11-02-2021 02:01PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Nenagh, but it's very quiet

Except for the ambulance factory

KaneToad · 11-02-2021 02:05PM

Bray.

Not a donkey to be seen...

Ger Roe · 11-02-2021 02:07PM

afro man wrote: »

A local area near Muff called Grainne’s Gap

Also a place called Muff Crescent in Nobber, co meath.

murpho999 · 11-02-2021 02:11PM

There seems to be Alanis Morissette levels of misunderstanding of the word 'ironic' in this thread

Zaney · 11-02-2021 02:21PM

Portlaoise and Portarlington - they are in the midlands, nearest port is hundreds of miles away

Moneygall

Swords (stand to be corrected as I don’t know the area well enough to understand the level of knife crime)

Blacklion - now that’s something I want to see

Zaney · 11-02-2021 02:24PM

Portlaoise and Portarlington - they are in the midlands, nearest port is hundreds of miles away

Moneygall

Swords (stand to be corrected as I don’t know the area well enough to understand the level of knife crime)

Blacklion - now that’s something I want to see

11-02-2021 02:26PM

murpho999 wrote: »

There seems to Alanis Morissette levels of misunderstanding of the word 'ironic' in this thread

Isn't it ironic?

Uncle Pierre · 11-02-2021 02:31PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

But none of these are ironic.

In fact, it's one of the ironies of any thread that calls for ironic examples that lots of people will post stuff that is not ironic at all.

It's like raaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnn, on your wedding daaaaaaaaay! etc.

Bastardstown is ironic in that people there are actually fairly sound.

I'm saying nothing about Fannystown.

By the same token, I'll say nothing about Lousybush in Kilkenny either. I don't have enough experience with the womenfolk there to be able to judge one way or the other.

cdeb · 11-02-2021 02:59PM

Leopardstown is an obvious one actually. No leopards at all. The Irish name gives it away - Baile na Lobhar - Town of the lepers. It was the site of a lepers' hospital in the middle ages.

dennyire · 11-02-2021 03:02PM

Stillorgan....Mickey Marbh

Miley Byrne · 11-02-2021 03:04PM

Zaney wrote: »

Portlaoise and Portarlington - they are in the midlands, nearest port is hundreds of miles away

Moneygall

Swords (stand to be corrected as I don’t know the area well enough to understand the level of knife crime)

Blacklion - now that’s something I want to see

Always wondered if this was a play on words and it should have been BlackLine due to the border there and the black border line running through it on a map, then again I presume the town was named long before partition so I haven't a clue really:pac:

Crocodile Booze · 11-02-2021 03:07PM

Glasthule

There is not a sign of a transparent penis there.

randd1 · 11-02-2021 03:07PM

Mullinavat, Kilkenny - No vat to be seen, so there's nothing to mull in it.

Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary - The feckin rock is in the Suir, no on it.

Ballycocksoost (pronounced Bally Cock Suas), Kilkenny - No obvious erections on view.

Waterford - There's no ford there.

Limerick - Nothing funny about the place at all.

Mayo - They prefer butter.

doublejobbing 2 · 11-02-2021 03:18PM

Buttercup, Snowdrop and Primrose avenue/ drive etc in Darndale.

Conjures up an image of somewhere nice for a picnic and a brisk walk on a long summer's evening, rather than a place teeming with gormless junkies, ltheir sons tearing about on scramblers, and 15 year olds driving the bollix out of an old car they bought on Facebook for 50 quid.

11-02-2021 05:27PM

Clones - and not another place like it

Mimon · 11-02-2021 05:33PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

There’s a ‘Mountain View Road’ in Ranelagh. Not sure if it’s “ironic” or just false advertising.

Maybe had a mountain view when it was originally built? Dublin originally wasn't very big.

Mimon · 11-02-2021 05:37PM

Pilltown - sounds like it should be a mecca for ravers, never been there but presume it's not.

Amirani · 11-02-2021 05:38PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Fairview, Dublin. No view at all.

It used to though, back when Fairview was directly on the coast. Hence "Fairview Strand" (same applies to North Strand).

EmmetSpiceland · 11-02-2021 05:42PM

Mimon wrote: »

Maybe had a mountain view when it was originally built? Dublin originally wasn't very big.

Could be. It’s not a very long road and is cut off to the south by houses of a similar type so if there was a view I don’t think it lasted very long.

Tabnabs · 11-02-2021 05:46PM

Foretunestown

(located next to Jobstown...)

randd1 · 11-02-2021 05:59PM

Mimon wrote: »

Pilltown - sounds like it should be a mecca for ravers, never been there but presume it's not.

Oh it feckin is.

Piltown is the spelling by the way.

Zebra3 · 11-02-2021 06:07PM

Amirani wrote: »

It used to though, back when Fairview was directly on the coast. Hence "Fairview Strand" (same applies to North Strand).

Yep, the park and Eastpoint are reclaimed land.

Take that, Holland!!

fryup · 11-02-2021 06:23PM

Spanish Point, co clare

not a spaniard to be seen or point at

odyssey06 · 11-02-2021 06:28PM

Amirani wrote: »

It used to though, back when Fairview was directly on the coast. Hence "Fairview Strand" (same applies to North Strand).

And similarly Marino (An Mairíne) was once closer to the sea.

I'll add Bull Island no bulls and no longer an island (since causeway built).

McGinniesta · 11-02-2021 09:04PM

Borris in Ossory.

What's an ossory? Who's Borris?

elperello · 11-02-2021 09:19PM

McGinniesta wrote: »

Borris in Ossory.

What's an ossory? Who's Borris?

Back in the mists of time Boris Yeltsin President of Russia made a stopover at Shannon Airport.

Our Taoiseach Albert Reynolds lined up with a bunch of dignitaries beside his plane but Boris never got off the plane so they all went home.

It later transpired that Mr Yeltsin had a feed of vodka during the flight and fell asleep. When they landed none of his staff would wake him.

The incident was described later as Boris is Ossified.

cdeb · 11-02-2021 09:24PM

McGinniesta wrote: »

Borris in Ossory.

What's an ossory? Who's Borris?

Buirìs is a town owned by a lord. Osraí was an old Irish kingdom. So it's a town in a kingdom. Very apt I think.

Not understanding it doesn't make it ironic

RandomViewer · 11-02-2021 09:29PM

There's a townland near Churchill in Donegal called Mountpleasure

Irish places with ironic names??

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