Buying in Maynooth

Its generally grand apart from a few families. Id visit a few times at various times of the day to have a look. They still have bonfires at halloween and you'll be considered a blow in forever. Plenty of curtain twitchers.

Theres no real issue with students in any estates anymore so if you have other options in mind id go for them first.

Agreed. Im here my whole life. 40yrs. Id love to move.

Op dont forget there are 85 all social houses going in behind old greenfield. Bound to be problems.

Id avoid maynooth as a whole.

Completely agree. I feel Maynooth is very very safe and even if some social housing comes in that's probably peanuts compared to other areas.

Aside from a community centre I'm not sure of anythign that Maynooth is really missing tbh.

I’d say that prob has a rep as one of the ‘worst’ parts of Maynooth .Whether the town itself is ‘bad’ is another story .I would have said no 2-3 years ago but sure the whole country is going the same way now …Traditionally Old Greenfield was associated with ‘rowdy’ students and was also some of the furthest locations from the town centre .But as nowadays can be harder to judge as very rough areas become gentrified etc .Always wise to just visit yourself several times at different times of day and night .

Would love a cinema and theatre / venue but don't see those as essential and can't see how they'd turn a profit - Liffey Valley is just down the road from cinema point of view and in terms of touring productions we're not that far away to go to shows whether comedy, dramatic or music. If we had a venue it'd surely struggle to stay in operation?

100% agree on community centre and health centre though.

I'd advise anyone thinking of buying in Maynooth to visit the town in their car at 5pm. The traffic is shocking. By far the worst in North Kildare.

While it doesn't have the charm of a theatre or venue, the Glenroyal does this

Keith Barry for example has had shows there, Deirdre O'Kane was in the K Club recently. I go to gigs a fair bit and would love a good venue but can't see how it'd turn a profit here when Dublin isn't that far away. Even looking at The Moat Theatre (which I haven't been to) I've no idea how that can be operational given the events it's got coming up.

The college is actually a hinderance to the town for getting new infrastructure, swimming pool, cinema, theatre - don't need one the college has one, or is building one. The Aula Maxima has been used for a few bits down the years, as was the swimming pool before its…. issues.

Should have gone to Specsavers