Biggest Sh1thole In The Country?

tech2 wrote: »

Gort is probably the filthiest looking place I have ever seen tbh with slaps of road tar thrown around the ground. Buildings are in dire need of repair and painting over. It is definately the most rundown town in Ireland. Only the brazilians save it from becoming an absolute kip altogether.

Gort is also a "Heritage Town."

How do places get Heritage Town status? I'm sure there are lots more so-called Heritage Towns that have also been mentioned in this thread.

Actually just checked the http://www.heritagetowns.com/irelandmap.shtml website, and despite Gort displaying a sign as you drive into it that it is a heritage town, turns out it's not on the list on the website.

So it's a fraudulent kip too.

Summerhill, Co Meath only because of the 4x4 trail that is supposed to be a main road through the village.

Quint wrote: »

People are comparing "kips" in ireland to 3rd world countries, there's a massive difference!
And the dublin divide is east/west not north south. But you still get people from Clontarf and Howth in €0.1m or €0.2m houses saying they're "real dublin" and the south siders are "posh"!



Sounds great, a town where you can buy a spudball of Fats in the death wagon!

Edit here for you, Celtic tiger is gone.....they cant sell em anymore so they aint worth the millions they were!

I'm voting for Longford again its Dire, Tuam aint that bad its just people associate it with travellers maybe?

aghowle co wicklow bet you never heard of it

musicmonky wrote: »

oh my god who Kilkenny. Kipkenny more like...

holy god. and the god dam awful traffic lights and waste of time that is Enniskillen..
(hmm a theme is forming, towns with kill in them!)

or Strabang, i mean Strabane. unemployment black spot

On a positive note, Westport is well formulated.
East and West Cork is class, as is the Antrim coast its just amazing on a good day.
And I actually like the tacky seaside towns of Bundoran and Portrush / Portstewart, Bettystown, Bray etc...
Oh the smell of a bag of chips on the beach.
Reminds me of times before people when to Majorka and had egos.

maybe someone should do a mashup on googlemaps and then get bus to do tours..... just to point and laugh...

Being objective, Cork countryside and city is an excellent place to live, whatever you may think of the people.

Lets start a poll with the most suggested places

+1 for borris-in-ossery

Shannon Co Clare is without doubt the winner. From the classy public houses like the Crossroads (think Baghdad squashed into a dingy damp smelly room in west Clare) which is on the second floor of what looks like an abandond 60's apartment block to the Nites night club. Basically the same thing as the Crossroads with loud music, drugs the constant and frankly worrying smell of vomit and rubber carpets. The "town centre" (shopping centre) largely consists of the Nites, a supermacs, Lidl and Dunnes. All the houses and estates were built in the 60's and 70's and look it too.

The town is laid out all over the place without any sort of obvious logic, one way streets and dark alleys. House estates thrown up here and there. As if it were not bad enough all the scummy f*ucks from Southill and Moyross whose houses are being rebuilt under the urban redevelopement programme have moved out here too.

The place just rots your brain if you stay there for any lenght of time. Avoid!!!

waxon-waxoff wrote: »

Yawn...........

These threads keep appearing every few weeks, biggest hole, dump etc in Ireland. The usual suspects are always there- rural towns, Limerick city and the council estates of Dublin.

Do people need to slag off other places to feel superior about themselves? Lets have more pride and respect for ourselves and our country. You would never get this in America, Australia or Europe.

lol absolute nonsense. If anyting you get more of this sort of thing in highly regionalised countries like Italy and Spain.