Lovers Lane? Taylors Hill to Westside?

jellytot93 · 04-03-2021 4:48pm #1

Just wondering if anyone knows where this is? I have heard about it multiple times but can never seem to find it when out walking.... Can anyone help? Need new scenery in these times!

biko · 04-03-2021 5:09pm

Can you be more specific? That's quite a distance and there are no lanes there.

Maybe this short one? https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2687269,-9.0761416,3a,75y,15.67h,85.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAmVW2c0bplzGhRexh2uTBw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

jellytot93 · 04-03-2021 5:30pm

Unfortunately that is all I know

I saw images and it looked like a pathway up by a wall and lots of greenery.. thanks for replying though!

04-03-2021 5:39pm

jellytot93 wrote: »

Unfortunately that is all I know I saw images and it looked like a pathway up by a wall and lots of greenery.. thanks for replying though!

Would it be the small one in Highfield? Near the main entrance between the houses

biko · 04-03-2021 6:45pm

That's the one I linked to. Did you click link OP?

04-03-2021 7:09pm

biko wrote: »

That's the one I linked to. Did you click link OP?

No, I meant the one that goes from Rockmount Rd to Oakely Crescent

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2731981,-9.0785523,3a,75y,256.73h,78.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sb0r5DgSphS_CPRqQR-DUqg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Its only a small lane though. I spent many an evening there with a lady in my teens. Never made love in it though lol

Cheshire Cat · 04-03-2021 7:50pm

There used to be a railway line from Highfield into town (when it was a quarry). I was told that the line became a footpath until it was absorbed by the gardens it ran alongside. That would have been between Cedarwood Close and Maunsells Park ending at the laneway that Biko linked.

Cheshire Cat · 04-03-2021 7:52pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

No, I meant the one that goes from Rockmount Rd to Oakely Crescent

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2731981,-9.0785523,3a,75y,256.73h,78.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sb0r5DgSphS_CPRqQR-DUqg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Its only a small lane though. I spent many an evening there with a lady in my teens. Never made love in it though lol

That's still there and it's a rather unpleasant laneway.

Geuze · 05-03-2021 12:59am

Many years ago I took a lane/track off Taylor's Hill, but it lead towards Glenard.

It went to the left off Taylor's Hill, up past the Ardilaun hotel.

I think this is it?

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2683499,-9.0823469,3a,75y,179.32h,64.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqhLz-8Yt_zAl4MAh--doag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Gadgetman496 · 05-03-2021 1:39am

Maybe this one?

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2734587,-9.0762975,3a,75y,185.89h,83.35t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sK2OZULpcBnqCOP4Bal32Nw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

or this one

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2733779,-9.0755183,3a,75y,3.27h,93.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s0m9T11MdXVAJzi0PjolYHw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

There was another shortcut from Rahoon Rd to taylors Hill way back but it was through a field, strip of land rather than a lane as such.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2733193,-9.074973,3a,75y,180.18h,89.22t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sRn73OGQtBu5pqxjVC_laVQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Gadgetman496 · 05-03-2021 1:52am

This one runs directly from Shantalla (Davis RD) to Maunsells Road which in turn leads directly to Taylors Hill. Used to be called the Red Lane back in the day because the surface was hardened red clay.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2730597,-9.0725969,3a,75y,22.3h,87.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snPqcw18amh7piJwv-jUudA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

This is it from the Davis Rd end.

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2744743,-9.0726844,3a,90y,168.48h,82.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYYpllcZwb-jkhKheFnTfQw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Meemars · 07-03-2021 10:27pm

Geuze wrote: »

Many years ago I took a lane/track off Taylor's Hill, but it lead towards Glenard.

It went to the left off Taylor's Hill, up past the Ardilaun hotel.

I think this is it?

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2683499,-9.0823469,3a,75y,179.32h,64.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqhLz-8Yt_zAl4MAh--doag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

This lane, indicated by Geuze, is the one I remember being called 'Lover's Lane' in my youth growing up in the area.
The lane beside Scoil Rois, was known as Rocky lane (used to be more of a boreen, now a road, called Rosary lane)

what_traffic · 08-03-2021 10:14am

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

That's still there and it's a rather unpleasant laneway.

The steepness of it?

Cheshire Cat · 08-03-2021 11:26am

what_traffic wrote: »

The steepness of it?

Steep, dark and often full of rubbish.

Gadgetman496 · 08-03-2021 1:13pm

Geuze wrote: »

Many years ago I took a lane/track off Taylor's Hill, but it lead towards Glenard.

It went to the left off Taylor's Hill, up past the Ardilaun hotel.

I think this is it?

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2683499,-9.0823469,3a,75y,179.32h,64.12t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqhLz-8Yt_zAl4MAh--doag!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Where does the above lane-way lead to on the westside end?

jellytot93 · 08-03-2021 2:00pm

This is it! Thanks a million!!!

Geuze · 08-03-2021 2:25pm

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

Where does the above lane-way lead to on the westside end?

The lane/path I travelled, 20+ years ago, leads from Taylor's Hill, along the side/back of Ardmore houses to Glenard Crescent.

Gadgetman496 · 08-03-2021 2:37pm

Geuze wrote: »

The lane/path I travelled, 20+ years ago, leads from Taylor's Hill, along the side/back of Ardmore houses to Glenard Crescent.

The title of the OP's post is "Lovers Lane? Taylors Hill to Westside?". The track you mention seems to be more Taylor's Hill to Salthill.

08-03-2021 2:51pm

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

The title of the OP's post is "Lovers Lane? Taylors Hill to Westside?". The track you mention seems to be more Taylor's Hill to Salthill.

Op has confirmed it's the lane in question

smurf492 · 08-03-2021 5:48pm

Gadgetman496 wrote:

The title of the OP's post is "Lovers Lane? Taylors Hill to Westside?". The track you mention seems to be more Taylor's Hill to Salthill.

Know the lane well as it is near me residentially but never heard of it called lover's lane. I know it as something else more so a derogatory name for a certain group..

Gadgetman496 · 08-03-2021 5:50pm

The topic unearthed quite a few lanes in that general area all the same.

biko · 08-03-2021 6:16pm

I must have driven or walked past there hundreds of times and never thought of it.
Looks interesting, will have to go see for myself.

Lovers Lane? Taylors Hill to Westside?

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