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Does anyone know the place i'm talking about?

  • 21-07-2009 7:14pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭


    :p

    This might sound a bit weird now but I'll ask it anyway and see where it gets me!

    I remember hearing about a spot just outside the city that you can pull into, and from this spot you can see over the whole city. Its supposed to be a great view at night time :) I just done know what the name of this spot is

    Anyone know where I'm talking about?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭LimeFruitGum


    From the Clare side of Limerick or from another direction?


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭SoCo2009


    From the Clare side of Limerick or from another direction?

    Jaysus, I'm afraid I dont even know that much! :o I know...I'm a disaster :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,152 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    I would imagine you mean up by the Golf Ball on the Clare Hills.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    Sounds like up the Clare hills if it is overlooking the city.


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭SoCo2009


    Berty and Kess, you know, Clare Hills actually rings a bell! Ye're spot! Cheers!

    Must go check it out so :D

    Is it as cool as it sounds?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭The Blonde One


    It's pretty cool alright on a clear night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Gallows Hill near Cratloe. It looks really good on a clear night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭mark1974


    Watch out for fellas dumpin fridges and washing machines!:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭SoCo2009


    haha i will do mark! I've a couch I'm looking to offload myself actually! :P

    And it is a safe enough spot during the evening like???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Are you bringing the bird up there?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    +1 on clare hills.

    *cough perv cough*:D:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭mark1974


    SoCo2009 wrote: »
    haha i will do mark! I've a couch I'm looking to offload myself actually! :P

    And it is a safe enough spot during the evening like???

    It depends what you mean by safe.
    A fella brought a woman up there at night a few years back and a gang of scumbags attacked them.
    They locked him in the boot of the car while they gang raped her.
    They all were caught and convicted.
    Google it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,547 ✭✭✭✭phog


    Clare Hills - the view from the "golf ball" is fantastic, the road leading up to it is very narrow from either direction (Meelick side or Cratloe side) so be careful. During the day, you should take a walk past the golf ball, keep that to your right, once you pass it head for the metal drain covers and the view over the city on a clear day is just wonderful, if you have decent footware you could venture a bit more into the heather and head for the rocks to your left (I think) and look down towards Thomond Park and the city.

    Another great view of Limerick county rather than the city is Barna out past Newcastle West.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43 Furious_Daz


    mark1974 wrote: »
    It depends what you mean by safe.
    A fella brought a woman up there at night a few years back and a gang of scumbags attacked them.
    They locked him in the boot of the car while they gang raped her.
    They all were caught and convicted.
    Google it.

    Are you sure that wasn't Cratloe woods?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭source


    Cratloe Woods is only a few hundred metres from the Golf Ball.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    There is also a pretty good view of the city from the Limerick By pass, where the train line goes under it, always notice it when driving late at night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭concussion


    Cratloe Woods is at the bottom of Gallows Hill which is just down the road from Woodcock Hill.

    Edit: Like Foinse said.


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭SoCo2009


    Thanks for all the advice! i'm only interested in the view out der! haha so would ye think it is safe enough for a quick trip out or?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭WuuZii


    concussion wrote: »
    Cratloe Woods is at the bottom of Gallows Hill which is just down the road from Woodcock Hill.

    Gallows Hill is the local name for Woodcock Hill. Easiest way to get there is to head towards Cratloe and then onto the Sixmilebridge road and from there to the woods (all sign posted), its at least another mile or 2 of very windy roads to the top. Getting to the top can be tricky, as can finding your way back down (I ended up in sixmilebridge after a wrong turn once). I would recommend doing it during the day at least once so you know what your doing at night.

    Up by the golf ball is pretty safe (because its fairly remote). The 1 incident that was mentioned already in this thread is the only one I have heard of in my 27 years living in Cratloe. The view is fantastic on a good night.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Another spot to view the city from (you see more of it than Golf Balls actually and can stay in the car) is out the Long Pavement, turn at Quinpool before Parteen, going up about a mile towards Meelick. Instead of turning left down the winding hill to Meelick, continue on straight up the hills and about a mile up that road, the entire city comes into view. Good at night.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    WuuZii wrote: »
    The 1 incident that was mentioned already in this thread is the only one I have heard of in my 27 years living in Cratloe. The view is fantastic on a good night.

    Well said WuuZii. What is it with people's fixation with the negative???

    We are goddamn specialists at it too in the Midwest.

    That neck of the woods (no pun) is gorgeous and is enjoyed year in and year out by thousands and thousands of people, but somehow the incident that some dark minds fixate on is that case referred to above.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭wylo


    make sure to actually get out of the car and walk past the golf ball, because once you walk just a few meters past it the view is brilliant,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,547 ✭✭✭✭phog


    wylo wrote: »
    make sure to actually get out of the car and walk past the golf ball, because once you walk just a few meters past it the view is brilliant,

    ...see post #14 :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭SoCo2009


    phog wrote: »
    Clare Hills - the view from the "golf ball" is fantastic, the road leading up to it is very narrow from either direction (Meelick side or Cratloe side) so be careful.

    Actually, would you have directions to the Golf Ball coming from the Cratloe side? :)
    went out der today but couldnt find it!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    SoCo2009 wrote: »
    Actually, would you have directions to the Golf Ball coming from the Cratloe side? :)
    went out der today but couldnt find it!!

    Myself and An File drove out there before, basically head out the dual carriage way and then turn off for cratloe, go up the huge hill that goes past the entrance into cratloe woods, if memory serves you just keep following the road and keep going up hills and you will eventually see it.

    An File probably remembers it better than i do..... oh wait check out this



    and this



    This is driving back down from the golf ball and then down the huge hill past the entrance to cratloe woods, hope it helps :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 70 ✭✭offalyman


    I've often wondered, what exactly is that golf ball? Some sort of communications device? Something to do with shannon airport?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,846 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    offalyman wrote: »
    I've often wondered, what exactly is that golf ball? Some sort of communications device? Something to do with shannon airport?


    As far as I know, the golf ball is a protective cover for a piece of equipment called a 'secondary surveillance radar which can pick up a transponder signal from high-flying aircraft as soon as they come into VHF range (about 220 miles) of it. This signal is than beamed to Air Traffic Control at Shannon and they have the aircraft's position, altitude and direction and it's identification code.


  • Registered Users Posts: 289 ✭✭SoCo2009


    Myself and An File drove out there before, basically head out the dual carriage way and then turn off for cratloe, go up the huge hill that goes past the entrance into cratloe woods, if memory serves you just keep following the road and keep going up hills and you will eventually see it.

    An File probably remembers it better than i do..... oh wait check out this



    and this



    This is driving back down from the golf ball and then down the huge hill past the entrance to cratloe woods, hope it helps :)




    Thanks a lot dude! Thats all the help I needed!

    We went straight up that hill alright, but for some reason we thought we'd be smart and turn off at some point :rolleyes:

    Actually we got a simular day to you aswel! :D Lashing rain and resulting foggy windows!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭Limerick Dude


    Haha yeah, that day it was torrential, don't think myself and an file were ever happier to be back on the dual carriageway


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35 gracem


    there used to be 2 golf balls when i was younger but one dissappeared!


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