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Magic Road

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  • #32
    turly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 254 ✭✭turly


    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    Ok nobody believes me, what a bunch of sceptics..

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof... :)


  • #33
    April Raine
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    drunkmonkey wrote: »
    The one I was on most definatly wasn't an optical illusion, the car physically went backwards up the hill with 5 people on board , I had to put my foot on the brake to stop me going backwards out on to the main road...the car was in neutral the whole time...

    The one on the was to Jonny Foxes is real!!
    The illusion is that the car appears to go uphill, it is really going downhil but seems to be uphill. I think its because of the way the road is built into the mountain at least in waterford where it was confirmed by council to be an illusion


  • #34
    vincenzo1975
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    I was on the road in Dundalk, Its out past the ballymacscanlon hotel, If yuo want to try it, just stop around there and ask directions.

    The car rolled up the hill, but when water was poured on it, it trickled in the opposite direction. It was a very wierd experience.

    It was actually on Ripleys believe it or not when jack Palance did the show..


  • #35
    April Raine
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    vincenzo1975 wrote: »
    The car rolled up the hill, but when water was poured on it, it trickled in the opposite direction. It was a very wierd experience.
    Weird, in Waterford the water flows the same way as the car moves. Any explanation, did you ever ask council


  • #36
    DundalkDuffman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭DundalkDuffman


    vincenzo1975 wrote: »
    I was on the road in Dundalk, Its out past the ballymacscanlon hotel, If yuo want to try it, just stop around there and ask directions.

    The car rolled up the hill, but when water was poured on it, it trickled in the opposite direction. It was a very wierd experience.

    It was actually on Ripleys believe it or not when jack Palance did the show..

    Its on the Dundalk-Omeath mountain road at Jenkinstown, take the next left turn after Bellurgan United football grounds signed Omeath. This takes you to Jenkinstown Cross (less than a mile) Its right up that road at the first dip on the hill at the water reservoir, best to turn back toward Dundalk bay, engine off and car into neutral. There really should be some sort of sign at it but wasn't last time I drove by.


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  • #37
    JangoFett
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    c - 13 wrote: »
    Theres one in the Comeragh mountains in waterford too.

    Stop your car at the end, take it out of gear and handbrake off, car rolls backwards up the hill. People say its an optical illusion but its cool all the same.

    I was on it on Sunday. The magic of optical illusions, how I enjoy them!


  • #38
    Whatsyourface
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    I wannago to the waterford one... Badly!!


  • #39
    Fuzzy Clam
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    Oh yis of little faith !

    Proof of the existence of magic roads can be found in an episode of Father Ted entitled "Hell".
    Father Jack travells uphill in his wheelchair.

    So there! ;)


  • #40
    Whatsyourface
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭Whatsyourface


    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    Oh yis of little faith !

    Proof of the existence of magic roads can be found in an episode of Father Ted entitled "Hell".
    Father Jack travells uphill in his wheelchair.

    So there! ;)

    True words spoken there - its been proven by a preist!


  • #41
    antodeco
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    Anyone got any co-ordinates for the one in Tallaght? Would like to try it :D


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  • #42
    Genghiz Cohen
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    antodeco wrote: »
    Anyone got any co-ordinates for the one in Tallaght? Would like to try it :D

    Ditto the Portlaoise one.


  • #43
    Ziycon
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    antodeco wrote: »
    Anyone got any co-ordinates for the one in Tallaght? Would like to try it :D
    Its at view point, the road that leads down away from view point just in front of the carpark.

    Its the road to the right of the destination marker.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Ballycullen+Rd&daddr=R115%2FStocking+Ln&hl=en&geocode=Fc7yLAMdZH-f_w%3BFSNgLAMd9Y6f_w&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=0&sz=14&sll=53.285589,-6.326151&sspn=0.02699,0.066175&ie=UTF8&ll=53.263467,-6.307011&spn=0.054008,0.132351&t=k&z=13


  • #44
    bigdogbarking
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    nothing to do with magic faeries or magnetic plates or whatever, "they" did a lot of testing at dundalk in the 70's afaik. its just an illusion, something to do with a hill on a hill??

    Either way though,it is f**king cool,and it has to be seen to be believed, never tried water on it but you can put a football on it and see it roll up the hill, just like magic ;)

    Just be careful, its on a dangerous bend, cars do tend to speed around the corner.


  • #45
    snow ghost
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    Last time I was on one of these so called 'Magic Roads', I parked up, whipped the spirit level out of the boot and stuck it down on the road... to my horror the spirit level started moving slowly up the hill.


  • #46
    Pot Noodle =
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    Spelga Dam has one in Co Down heard it on Liveline


  • #47
    sierra117x
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    im heading to the one in johhny foxes tonight ill bring some esentials like balls and spirit levels and see how it goes :)


  • #48
    maccored
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    Fact or Faked Series 1 Ep 5 proves, step by step, that such 'magic roads' are most certainly an optical illusion. Their study of the story of the school bus and the train in America, where the kids apparently push cars over the tracks show that its not uphill at all - in fact 1 degree downhill.


  • #49
    Hootanany
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    maccored wrote: »
    Fact or Faked Series 1 Ep 5 proves, step by step, that such 'magic roads' are most certainly an optical illusion. Their study of the story of the school bus and the train in America, where the kids apparently push cars over the tracks show that its not uphill at all - in fact 1 degree downhill.

    Link please


  • #50
    maccored
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    Dont be so lazy - Im sure you can find it if you goggle.


  • #51
    lisij
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭lisij


    can some one point me where's exactly is this magic road in waterford, a simple point on the map would be much appreciated, thanx


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  • #52
    Tragamin2k2
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    lisij wrote: »
    can some one point me where's exactly is this magic road in waterford, a simple point on the map would be much appreciated, thanx

    http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=52.216652,-7.531486&hl=en&sll=52.216705,-7.531643&sspn=0.026504,0.055189&mra=mift&mrsp=1&sz=14&z=14

    Around there. Driving toward mahon falls, when ya pass a gate theres a downhill after it. Theres a tree about halfway down, stop at that and roll back up the hill :pac::pac::pac:


  • #53
    lisij
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 397 ✭✭lisij


    Tragamin2k2 wrote: »
    http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=52.216652,-7.531486&hl=en&sll=52.216705,-7.531643&sspn=0.026504,0.055189&mra=mift&mrsp=1&sz=14&z=14

    Around there. Driving toward mahon falls, when ya pass a gate theres a downhill after it. Theres a tree about halfway down, stop at that and roll back up the hill :pac::pac::pac:
    thanx a million mate..


  • #54
    mcmoustache
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    I came across one on the bike last week. I went west through chapelizod and then turned north towards an entrance (beside the vehicle entrance which was closed) to the phoenix park. On the beginning of that stretch of road, I thought I was going uphill because of how it looked but gravity was making me speed up. It was cool. The place is covered in trees so you can't see the horizon.


  • #55
    sofix
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    PLease mark in map dundalk magic road. thank you


  • #56
    MrMojoRisin
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    sofix wrote: »
    PLease mark in map dundalk magic road. thank you

    There are some driving directions here: http://www.carhire.ie/car-rental-info/car-trip-through-ireland-magic-road-of-dundalk.php

    Some jolly videos of the lovely magic road: :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcXEOnCCIwY








    The tourists love the magic road, by the looks of it. Failte Ireland may have overlooked this mighty attraction.


  • #57
    Herrick
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    Hi everyone, long time lurker here, first time posting :)

    I don't know if they are all illusions. I think I remember some documentary a few years back showing it can happen due to some abnormal magnetic fields or something similar.


  • #58
    maccored
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    they are illusions. theres even been a few tvs shows done on it - the most recent being the fact or faked episode already mentioned in this thread.


  • #59
    maccored
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    http://www.1channel.ch/external.php?title=Fact+or+Faked+Paranormal+Files&url=aHR0cDovL2dvcmlsbGF2aWQuY29tL3RnZW1sOGl0MmRlbw==&domain=Z29yaWxsYXZpZC5jb20 - about 30 mins in
    Hootanany wrote: »
    Link please


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