Athlone thread

Cost of that Heath Robinson route. Good lord. Just follow the existing track

Took a spin down to Hudson Bay Hotel yesterday. Those new walks are indeed pay for use. Booking required.

Seems the hotel have purchased the land beyond the hotel and golf course and plan to develop it for echo tourism. These two walks are the first steps on this. Haven't done them myself yet, but I see the fee for a family ticket is €14 for a 6.5km walk... Over 2 loops I guess.

3-4 bed semis right? Monksland is better value as it's outside the county boundary after the border war of 2015. Need a car or alot of time on your hands for the bus to get around though.

If money's no object, check out Hosdon Bay or Barrymore

Barrymore would be Athlone 4, rubbing shoulders with the great and the good of Athlone, lol. Coosan probably the "Howth" of Athlone.

Echo that, monksland has matured well in the last few years and is better value. To be fair both sides of Athlone estates well serviced with shops, bus routes and schools.

One thing on new housing estates is that they tend to start nice, go up a bit and then go down after 10-15 years, before coming back up again after 20.

Of course the down side of buying in more mature estates tends to be the houses badly need upgrading in terms of heat performance and style... And they're often not priced that way!

Barrymore is known as "Borrowmore", Its actually quite a dysfuntional area, Lots of Litigation between "Neighbours" and generally an unfriendly place to live.

What a load of rubbish. Know some of the nicest folks out in Barrymore. Its a lovely spot. Often go walking with friends I know out there and one thing that struck me is the amount of people who would stop and say hello. Don't know much about it being a dysfunctional area, I think theres a pre conception about it due to it being perceived as an affluent area.

Generally unfriendly place to live it is not, if money was no object i'd live out there in a heartbeat,

I can say this view is not generally representative of that area of Athlone. Not saying your view is false or invalid, but perhaps coloured by your own personal bias.

Barrymore is a nice area of Athlone, I wouldn't say the nicest... And I know a lot of lovely people in that area who I'd be delighted to have as neighbours.

Just on the tumbleweed thing- I blame much of that on the sheer lack of usability of Boards since they moved platforms, rather than on a lack of interest in the topic. On my mobile device, it takes 15-20 seconds for a page to load and that's ridiculous in this day and age.

I see this 'tumbleweed' across all the threads I'm interested in- previously good, vibrant discussions strangled by terrible tech.

Sad!

Agreed. It sits within the speed limited area, marked as Hodson Bay, and is deffo in Co. Roscommon, unlike Athlone's schizophrenic relationship with RN & WH . I'd say 4+ mikes from Barrymore to town centre. A bit like saying Glasson is in Athlone, really.

Where will that kind of address creep end,I ask! 🤔😨😱

Yeah agree. A testament to the saying 'if it ain't broke don't fix'

Is it closed? Was very much open a couple of weeks ago when I was there

They've had not much stock for the past 8 weeks as the back was empty. I wonder have they just moved what they had to back compound.

It's the same story in the Ford garage and in Michael Moore vw regarding second hand cars. Michael Moore used car lot is padded out with unreged new cars when I was there 2 weeks ago.

Don’t know as luckily have had no need to use it, it’s only open for a week even though Westmeath has the highest Covid levels in the country now. Such a pity as Athlone had been doing so well over the pandemic, I’m beginning to think there may be something in this ‘Herd Immunity’ after all.