Why is Ireland regarded as a scenic country?

ronano · 26-06-2011 11:09PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

We have a beautiful little country here.

Our tourist trade speaks for itself.

er hasnt it decreased by 33 percent in a few years?

Ireland is lovely though once you get out into the country,wales is stunning too,both have their faults but

both

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 26-06-2011 11:09PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I notice things like old cars rusting away after being dumped in the river, and once scenic areas being destroyed by some arsehole who slipped a few quid to the local planning department, so that he could quarry the guts out of the place.:mad:

I've a feeling this is a major part of the problem and our country would look a lot nicer if it was better taken care of.

For Forks Sake · 26-06-2011 11:09PM

Lapin wrote: »

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Highest ratio of women:men in britain, fact fans

It wasn't me! · 26-06-2011 11:11PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I notice things like old cars rusting away after being dumped in the river, and once scenic areas being destroyed by some arsehole who slipped a few quid to the local planning department, so that he could quarry the guts out of the place.:mad:

Yeah, but the place has never been pristine since it was inhabited by humans. Granted, there are hideous things, but when I see something like that, the bad aspects couldn't be further from my mind.

Lapin · 26-06-2011 11:16PM

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Highest ratio of women:men in britain, fact fans

Ah.

I thought it might have been the jukebox in the Sal that drew the crowds there.

Crackin pub.

Dyr · 26-06-2011 11:16PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I've often wondered what Ireland has a reputation as a beautiful 'Emerald Isle'. Although some areas of our country are beautiful, the majority of the landscape is quite dull and we also have a major problem with litter and poor planning, which spoil many areas with the potential to be scenic. I've been in Wales and it is a far more scenic country than Ireland, with beautiful unspoiled countryside, yet it doesn't seem to draw half the amount of tourists Ireland does. Why is this?

And before people point out areas that have great natural beauty such as Achill, West Kerry, Connemara etc, my entire point is that these areas are very rare.

Most countries on earth are fairly scenic in some way...except kips like chad. Ireland is pretty around the edges but once you move inland its just fields, cows and boggers.

Snowie · 26-06-2011 11:17PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I regularly walk through Irish country lanes. And they're not filled with awe-inspiring beauty. Funny you should mention America, its filled with much greater natural beauty than Ireland. I can never understand Americans visiting Ireland when they have unbelievable scenery throughout their own nation.

ahhh so maybe you should look at ireland in the same light might unturn your thoughts

kippy · 26-06-2011 11:18PM

Bambi wrote: »

Most countries on earth are fairly scenic in some way...except kips like chad. Ireland is pretty around the edges but once you move inland its just fields, cows and boggers.

I completely disagree. There's plenty ares around the shannon and the lakes that are part of it, as well as parts of Sligo and Leitrim that are as scenic as anywhere.
It's all relative I suppose.

ArtSmart · 26-06-2011 11:19PM

Daegerty wrote: »

We're fecked so because people go to Cambridge for the beours. The amount of fine beours in that place is unreal.

All our fine beours with a millimeter of thread left on the tyres has left for "Oz". If I run into one more beour saying she's leaving for "Oz" I'm going to blast her with piss

didnt understand a word, but still LOL'd. funny stuff.

anyway, seen a beautiful sunset tonight and started thinking this very thing (OP comment) how is Ireland compared to other countries

Cornwall and Wales pretty stunning, so too is most of the planet - certainly anywhere i've been, which is quite a few places - even some city-scapes are beautiful.

i think the Irish 'scenic' thing is tied up with a lot more than actual landscape

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 26-06-2011 11:20PM

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

ahhh so maybe you should look at ireland in the same light might unturn your thoughts

Ireland's mostly dull uninspiring landscape doesn't remotely compare to the varied and incredible landscape I seen in America.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 26-06-2011 11:20PM

kippy wrote: »

I completely disagree. There's plenty ares around the shannon and the lakes that are part of it, as well as parts of Sligo and Leitrim that are as scenic as anywhere.
It's all relative I suppose.

Sligo and Leitrim are on the coast.

Dyr · 26-06-2011 11:21PM

kippy wrote: »

It's all relative I suppose.

It is in the midlands anyway

ArtSmart · 26-06-2011 11:23PM

It wasn't me! wrote: »

You know, any time I've gone abroad, I've been rocked by the breathtaking spectacle of some of the scenery I've witnessed. However, when I come home, and if I'm out early, in November, shooting, snow and frost on the ground, crackling underfoot like thunder in the still morning, and a snipe breaks underfoot and rises over the hedge, backlit by a red sky over pines, I realise this place is special. And there are a thousand other images like that that make this country unique. It's not about being better; it's about offering something absolutely unique.

yes, very true - but it's one's unique connection to the place one grew up. i'm sure pretty much any citizen of a country could say the same - even the Inuit. (em, That's Eskimos to the un-PC

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kippy · 26-06-2011 11:24PM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Sligo and Leitrim are on the coast.

Fairly muff - but for me, part of Leitrim is inland a fair part of it, same with sligo, Galway and Mayo etc.

hmmm · 26-06-2011 11:28PM

I've travelled quite a bit, and the scenery in most of the planet is crap. Every country has some areas that are scenic, and many places have scenic areas that outdo anything in Ireland, but usually you have to travel long distances to find them and there's a million other people there at the same time. We forget how dry, arid and flat most of the world is.

A tourist in Ireland can drive 5 minutes outside a city and be driving amongst trees, rolling green fields and little streams. If they go to the West, they can drive on little roads and have vast areas of savage and stark beauty almost all to themselves. Our coastlines are full of little areas waiting to be discovered.

I wish however we'd stop building holiday homes in random spots all over the place, and also make an attempt to build them out of local materials and not simply cheap concrete and paint them white.

Columbia · 26-06-2011 11:39PM

There are many, many beautiful parts of the country. From my parents' house it's about a 3-minute drive to the top of a hill. From there you can look across to the Macgillycuddy Reeks, and way off in the distance make out Carrauntoohill. You can look down to Tralee and see Tralee bay and Blennerville, and you can see the Dingle peninsula stretch away to the west. Take a 10 minute walk north and you'll be on the other side of the hill, from where you can see Kerry Head, and watch the sun set over north Kerry.

I live in Kildare now and it is more boring here, but hop in a car (or, if you're me, on a bike) and you can get to Blessington, the Wicklow mountains and Glendalough in no time. There are definitely drab parts of the country, but there are very few places in Ireland from which natural beauty is totally out of reach.

ArtSmart · 26-06-2011 11:42PM

hmmm wrote: »

I've travelled quite a bit, and the scenery in most of the planet is crap. Every country has some areas that are scenic, and many places have scenic areas that outdo anything in Ireland, but usually you have to travel long distances to find them and there's a million other people there at the same time. We forget how dry, arid and flat most of the world is.

A tourist in Ireland can drive 5 minutes outside a city and be driving amongst trees, rolling green fields and little streams. If they go to the West, they can drive on little roads and have vast areas of savage and stark beauty almost all to themselves. Our coastlines are full of little areas waiting to be discovered.

I wish however we'd stop building holiday homes in random spots all over the place, and also make an attempt to build them out of local materials and not simply cheap concrete and paint them white.

hmmm....

anyway, for sure, been less densely populated outside the pale is a major plus, for a Western European country. but as you say
'the scenery in most of the planet is crap. Every country has some areas that are scenic, and many places have scenic areas that outdo anything in Ireland' which em, i take to mean most places arent crap as such, just hard to access the nice scenery.

Doyler92 · 26-06-2011 11:42PM

It has lovely roundabouts.

Daegerty · 26-06-2011 11:48PM

ArtSmart wrote: »

didnt understand a word, but still LOL'd. funny stuff.

Daycent

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Yes, except I never do this

Today doesn't count I suppose

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 26-06-2011 11:51PM

Daegerty wrote: »

Today doesn't count I suppose

Try reading the rest of my post like a good lad.

Brian CivilEng · 26-06-2011 11:55PM

I've sat on the end of the pier in Dun Laoghaire and watched the boats come in for hours, I've got the Dart to Howth and walked up to the summit, all the while thinking how lucky we are to live in such a scenic country. I live in "dirty" Dublin, yet these options are available to me with the minimum of fuss. My other half is Norwegian, their scenery is so spectacular that Slartibartfast won an award for it. I'm familiar with some of the greatest scenery the world has to offer, but we're not half bad here ourselves. Other countries may have better scenery, but the problem is that it is in other countries. I appreciate what I have at home.

ArtSmart · 26-06-2011 11:58PM

abitofacomedian wrote: »

I've sat on the end of the pier in Dun Laoghaire and watched the boats come in for hours, I've got the Dart to Howth and walked up to the summit, all the while thinking how lucky we are to live in such a scenic country. I live in "dirty" Dublin, yet these options are available to me with the minimum of fuss. My other half is Norwegian, their scenery is so spectacular that Slartibartfast won an award for it. I'm familiar with some of the greatest scenery the world has to offer, but we're not half bad here ourselves. Other countries may have better scenery, but the problem is that it is in other countries. I appreciate what I have at home.

Slartibartfast's award was for his technical achievement!

ok, carry on

Snowie · 27-06-2011 12:00AM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Ireland's mostly dull uninspiring landscape doesn't remotely compare to the varied and incredible landscape I seen in America.

uninspiring hmmmmm

so you cant find any inspiration yet you blame a country for it.

The only thing you have to blame for you're lack of inspiration is your self.

Krusader · 27-06-2011 12:02AM

Heres a nice windows 7 theme for you OP on ireland, some beautiful scenery in it

Solair · 27-06-2011 12:04AM

I think the OP needs to go for a drive somewhere interesting.

Most of the country's extremely scenic. Of course it has its boring bits, but it has vast areas of really spectacular scenery.

Take a drive down to Dingle or up the west coast or from Sligo in through the Glens of Leitrim or almost all of West Cork / Kerry / Galway / Wicklow ... eh, the list goes on and on.

You realise that you become desensitised to your own scenery, right?

A lot of Ireland's actually totally Lord of the Rings type scenery. If you're not sick of looking at it, it actually looks absolutely stunning.

Seriously, we actually had to stop the car on the way down to Dingle last time the scenery was just mind blowing when the sun hit particular angles - rainbows, amazing looking beaches, mountains ... it pretty much has it all!

Daegerty · 27-06-2011 12:05AM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

Try reading the rest of my post like a good lad.

I did. You seem to be looking at Ireland through sh1t-coloured glasses if you think Wales is better.

Einhard · 27-06-2011 12:06AM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

And before people point out areas that have great natural beauty such as Achill, West Kerry, Connemara etc, my entire point is that these areas are very rare.

West Cork, much of Kerry, parts of Clare, Connemara and other areas of Galways, Sligo, Roscommon, Wicjlow, Donegal...seriously, these areas aren't all that rare. They take up a huge amount of the countryside. And, on top of that, they're all relatively near. Sure, the likes of Canada and America might have more scenic areas...if you have two weeks to spare!

PARKHEAD67 · 27-06-2011 12:09AM

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I've often wondered what Ireland has a reputation as a beautiful 'Emerald Isle'. Although some areas of our country are beautiful, the majority of the landscape is quite dull and we also have a major problem with litter and poor planning, which spoil many areas with the potential to be scenic. I've been in Wales and it is a far more scenic country than Ireland, with beautiful unspoiled countryside, yet it doesn't seem to draw half the amount of tourists Ireland does. Why is this?

And before people point out areas that have great natural beauty such as Achill, West Kerry, Connemara etc, my entire point is that these areas are very rare.

A lot of it is Yanks with Irish heritage and all that jazz bigging it up.Wales is probably as nice but Ireland is absoloutely beautiful. Some of the scenery is stunning.Especially if your coming from The Bronx or somewhere like that.

Lapin · 27-06-2011 12:12AM

kippy wrote: »

Fairly muff - but for me, part of Leitrim is inland a fair part of it, same with sligo, Galway and Mayo etc.

Tell that to the Aran Islanders !

Galway is the most diverse county in the country.

Full.Duck · 27-06-2011 12:13AM

Love the scenery in Ireland. Its amazing and blows me away. I just have to walk out of my house turn right and i have the Curragh.

How can you say its dull and not varied enough. The Curragh, one of the only places in the world that looks like that. Same with the Burren, flowers that only grow in the Artic and the Burren. Giants causeway, no where in the world is like that. Cliffs of Moher, stunning and very few countries even have cliffs on that scale. The lakes of Leitrim, every 5 mins you will see one. The mountains and roads of Donegal, absolutely breathtaking. Hundreds of forests, hundreds of rivers with wildlife bursting at their seams like nowhere else in the world. The coastal roads that surround our whole little island. Amazing untouched little gems like hidden waterfalls, old curracks washed up in corks coastline, streams running down mountains. The list goes on and on and on and on ......

Why is Ireland regarded as a scenic country?

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