Achillhenge?

LETHAL LADY · 08-01-2013 11:27PM #1

Just watched Prime Time and quite enjoyed the Achillhenge segment, I think it may possibly become a lucrative tourist attraction for the island. It seems that it was not just thrown together and it has actually some acoustic merit (me hoop) or so the programme leads us to believe. So what say you, knock it down or advertise it for "The Gathering"?

Isolt · 08-01-2013 11:27PM

I liked your man 'throat singing'

LETHAL LADY · 08-01-2013 11:30PM

Isolt wrote: »

I liked your man 'throat singing'

That was brill, just blackguarded my cat with it, he was not impressed.

TheStook · 08-01-2013 11:36PM

I have literally no idea what Achillenge is. Should I feel bad?

RikkFlair · 08-01-2013 11:44PM

Ah **** I was on Achill last summer and forgot to check this "attraction" out

LordSutch · 08-01-2013 11:45PM

TheStook wrote: »

I have literally no idea what Achillenge is. Should I feel bad?

Don't feel bad, you're not alone . . .

Sounds like a modern day equivalent of a Victorian Folly, so lets call it a 'Post Celtic Tiger' Folly.

ben.schlomo · 08-01-2013 11:49PM

That Prime Time piece was like something id have expected Alan Partridge to have presented, i was half expecting them to just say it was a piss take at the end.

LETHAL LADY · 08-01-2013 11:53PM

ben.schlomo wrote: »

That Prime Time piece was like something id have expected Alan Partridge to have presented, i was half expecting them to just say it was a piss take at the end.

Me too, it was bizarre to say the least.

Fromthetrees · 09-01-2013 12:03AM

Wait for 20 year boyos and there be moss and the weeds growing all over the thing, we tell the rich Yanks that comeoverere that the thing was built be Cu Culainn himshelf and was bleshed by him and all that capper, we can sell them cheap tat for top dollar than, Mickie, getanuder round in dere, we have a good thing comin'.

Pottler · 09-01-2013 12:05AM

It's all good, it has the same type of planning permission they got for Newgrange.

TheStook · 09-01-2013 12:06AM

Fromthetrees wrote: »

Wait for 20 year boyos and there be moss and the weeds growing all over the thing, we tell the rich Yanks that comeoverere that the thing was built be Cu Culainn himshelf and was bleshed by him and all that capper, we can sell them cheap tat for top dollar than, Mickie, getanuder round in dere, we have a good thing comin'.

I read this in a Hector accent for some reason? It fits in fairness

irishgeo · 09-01-2013 12:39AM

ben.schlomo wrote: »

That Prime Time piece was like something id have expected Alan Partridge to have presented, i was half expecting them to just say it was a piss take at the end.

Not many locals willing to speak in public about it.

The local nickname on the other hole in the ground in keel is ground zero.

Wibbs · 09-01-2013 12:41AM

Pottler wrote: »

It's all good, it has the same type of planning permission they got for Newgrange.

About the same amount of concrete and invention too.

Pottler · 09-01-2013 12:42AM

irishgeo wrote: »

Not many locals willing to speak in public about it.

The local nickname on the other hole in the ground in keel is ground zero.

Which is fair enough, seeing as they were both products of a big boom.

ben.schlomo · 09-01-2013 01:11AM

irishgeo wrote: »

Not many locals willing to speak in public about it.

The local nickname on the other hole in the ground in keel is ground zero.

Bar the lad with the Guinness talking absolute nonsense in the pub and the councillor who looked like one of the village people minus a hat, what the fook was with his tache!!!

squod · 09-01-2013 01:14AM

We should advertise ''Copperminge'' the traditional hunting ground of young pissed up culchies visiting Dublin.

Kichote · 09-01-2013 08:56AM

I have good intentions to pay a visit to Achillhenge one day. To hell with all the boring law and order folk who want it pulled down 'just to discourage other people from building something without planning permission

Plazaman · 09-01-2013 09:25AM

Didn't see Primetime but I thought there was a demolition order placed on it by the courts?

Anyway it's crying out for a concrete floor and an Orchestra in the middle of it. Cha Ching!!!!

conorhal · 09-01-2013 09:33AM

Kichote wrote: »

I have good intentions to pay a visit to Achillhenge one day. To hell with all the boring law and order folk who want it pulled down 'just to discourage other people from building something without planning permission

I'll never understand this weird Irish 'shure didn't he stick it to de man, the boyo him!' nonsense.
Only in this morally bankrupt nation could we have a sneeking regard for property developers that build substandard crap without planning permission, regard for fire safety (priory Hall) or the fact that a listed building used to sit on that site until it 'accidentally fell down one bank holiday weekend'.
It's sympathy for the Devil so it is....

irishgeo · 09-01-2013 09:39AM

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Bar the lad with the Guinness talking absolute nonsense in the pub and the councillor who looked like one of the village people minus a hat, what the fook was with his tache!!!

The councillor was from WestPort.

nacimroc · 09-01-2013 10:03AM

Leave it up! In years we will look back and remember how mental things were.

LordSutch · 09-01-2013 10:49AM

It needs to be dismantled, taken down and removed, and the landsacpe returned to the way it was (pre being defaced).

The whole episode makes Ireland look like a joke (to outsiders)! How could any one person be allowed to just build a massive
concrete structure on such a large scale, without the authorities stepping in and calling a halt to the construction

And now that its there, why the delay in removing it? People will say "Only in Ireland", and what a waste of good concrete.

PULL IT DOWN AND REMOVE IT.

ben.schlomo · 09-01-2013 10:51AM

irishgeo wrote: »

The councillor was from WestPort.

Whats that got to do with how odd he looked? Do all Westport-ians look like that? If so then surely that would be a greater tourist attraction.

gobnaitolunacy · 09-01-2013 11:00AM

It is of no historical, architectural, or aesthetic merit whatsoever.

It's a fugly bunch of concrete slabs FFS which I don't think too many tourists will go out of their way to see.
Whoever put that piece of sh*t up should be forced to take it down at his own cost.

yeppydeppy · 09-01-2013 11:11AM

I would say the majority of locals want to get rid of it and return the landscape to its natural beauty - as per the law. However, I would also say most people are afraid to speak out due to the violent nature of some members of family involved. "Ground zero" as it is called in Keel is a disgrace, he went ahead with the deveopment without planning permission, was refused permission and left this eye sore for the locals and tourists sitting there for years. He then wastes who knows how many thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) on this concrete monstrosity - why didn't he spend that money tidying up the Keel site or pay it back to Anglo (which is now us)?

yeppydeppy · 09-01-2013 11:14AM

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

It is of no historical, architectural, or aesthetic merit whatsoever.

It's a fugly bunch of concrete slabs FFS which I don't think too many tourists will go out of their way to see.
Whoever put that piece of sh*t up should be forced to take it down at his own cost.

There is a court order in place for him to remove it at his own cost but as he is now hiding in the UK, working as a subbie, I doubt he'll ever do it. It's up to the council but sure they probably don't have the money either.

gobnaitolunacy · 09-01-2013 11:18AM

yeppydeppy wrote: »

There is a court order in place for him to remove it at his own cost but as he is now hiding in the UK, working as a subbie, I doubt he'll ever do it. It's up to the council but sure they probably don't have the money either.

And some shmoe in Co Limerick got jail recently for installing a couple of windows (which didn't look too bad) without PP. One law for the rich....

Guill · 09-01-2013 11:20AM

I think it's art. To me it shows how during the boom we tried to replace old Ireland with a modern concrete one and how this was not always pretty and not always better. It also reflect how buildings popped up in places they shouldn't have due to bad planning practices. Let it stand, long live Achill Henge!

RayCon · 09-01-2013 11:26AM

It's an ugly piece of crap that needs to be pulled down and the area returned to it's former natural state.

Anybody else find it weird that at the end of the piece Miriam O'Callaghan said something along the lines of "Mark Coughlan reporting there from Achill ... beautifully shot by our own .............. (didn't catch the name).

I thought it a bit strange to single out a camera man's input into the piece

irishgeo · 09-01-2013 11:30AM

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Whats that got to do with how odd he looked? Do all Westport-ians look like that? If so then surely that would be a greater tourist attraction.

I was pointing out the fact he is not from Achill and therefore not a local.

yeppydeppy wrote: »

I would say the majority of locals want to get rid of it and return the landscape to its natural beauty - as per the law. However, I would also say most people are afraid to speak out due to the violent nature of some members of family involved. "Ground zero" as it is called in Keel is a disgrace, he went ahead with the deveopment without planning permission, was refused permission and left this eye sore for the locals and tourists sitting there for years. He then wastes who knows how many thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) on this concrete monstrosity - why didn't he spend that money tidying up the Keel site or pay it back to Anglo (which is now us)?

He also has a huge mansion with no Planning unfinished, which has a garage with a turntable for the turning the car around. :rolleyes:

yeppydeppy wrote: »

There is a court order in place for him to remove it at his own cost but as he is now hiding in the UK, working as a subbie, I doubt he'll ever do it. It's up to the council but sure they probably don't have the money either.

He is back often enough as he climbs croach patrick every year and plays the in the locla pipie bands.

Mitch Buchannon · 09-01-2013 12:10PM

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

It is of no historical, architectural, or aesthetic merit whatsoever.

It's a fugly bunch of concrete slabs FFS which I don't think too many tourists will go out of their way to see.
Whoever put that piece of sh*t up should be forced to take it down at his own cost.

I totally agree. I was camping in Achill with friends during the summer and poped up to have a look. I was disgusted :mad:. The príck that built it should be forced to take it down and restore the ground to the way it was.

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