Most isolated place in Ireland

gurramok · 26-02-2010 04:58PM

Out by Malin Head in Dongeal is quite isolated. Surrounded by mountains and sea and dirt track roads to cut you off from civilisation!

admiralofthefleet · 26-02-2010 04:59PM

terry's bedroom

26-02-2010 05:02PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

terry's bedroom

Just the opposite of Tar's bedroom

byhookorbycrook · 26-02-2010 05:50PM

The Black Valley in Kerry - the last place in Irleand to get electricity.

wishwashwoo · 22-09-2012 06:03PM

Darndale nobody from outside there would ever go there so it's far away

a5y · 22-09-2012 06:09PM

Deepest cave in Ireland here, Co. Fermanagh.

Sorry did I interrupt the usual ingenius slagging and hilarious banter?

...Good.

22-09-2012 06:13PM

America! :pac:

ladysarastro · 22-09-2012 06:15PM

Is it for a body you want to bury???

Wanderer2010 · 22-09-2012 06:17PM

There are parts of West Clare that are very isolated, particularly Fanore, a popular summer spot but during winter I wouldnt say there a sound from the place, very bleak. Also, the drive in the Burren just before you get to Poulenabrone Dolmen is particularly quiet and unnerving. I went there during the summer. Granted it was sunday morning at 10am but it was peak tourist month (July) and it was a lovely morning but I passed two cars at the most and the silence of the Region was almost deafening, very isolated spot..

3ndahalfof6 · 22-09-2012 06:18PM

Ballygobackwards, mudcabindrive is a close second.

John_Rambo · 22-09-2012 06:19PM

Hagar wrote: »

Living in a cardboard box on a street where people hurry by carrying €3.50 semi-decaffe moccachinos must be the most isolated place in Ireland.

I don't know what street you were living in a cardboard box, but glad you seem to have sorted yourself. Lots and lots of act of kindness are visited on the homeless where I am from, very often your coffee drinking people buy food or tea for them, I have also witnessed restaurant staff feeding the homeless on the sly. Most die from drug overdose, very few from lack of food or warmth.

I find the bigger peaks are the most isolated parts.

bijapos · 22-09-2012 06:19PM

If you go to the area around Slieve Carr in Mayo you are about 10km in each direction from the nearest house. I would think this is hard to beat. This is in the Ballycroy National Park between Bangor Ennis and Newport. I've walked the path from Bangor to Newport and for two days you see no sign whatsoever of civilisation, strange thing to do in Ireland.

You'd be very surprised as well as to how isolated some people live in Ireland.

questionmark? · 22-09-2012 06:19PM

A recruitment consultants office:pac:

probably somewhere in the whest hard to pinpoint really.

Pottler · 22-09-2012 10:21PM

dave 27 wrote: »

Is there a known spot or place in the island of Ireland thats known to be the furthest place from civilisation? not including islands, just the mainland..im thinking maybe somewhere in connemara or kerry??

somewhere in the middle of these mountain ranges?

it would be cool to know the exact point!

"Aahr Jim lad, I buried me treasure in the farthest point from civilisation - ye'll never find it I tell ye, Never. Look all ye want, even ask on After Hours, never will it be found."

The answers easy, it's Clonmel. Feckin furthest place from Civilisation I've ever been anyway.

JeffK88 · 22-09-2012 10:54PM

Don't Know if anybody else has mentioned Rockall out in the atlantic. Hundreds of Km of anywhere. Just got to plop a tricolour on it is all

dxhound2005 · 22-09-2012 11:06PM

JeffK88 wrote: »

Don't Know if anybody else has mentioned Rockall out in the atlantic. Hundreds of Km of anywhere. Just got to plop a tricolour on it is all

The Op said not to include islands.

Is there a known spot or place in the island of Ireland thats known to be the furthest place from civilisation? not including islands, just the mainland..im thinking maybe somewhere in connemara or kerry??

Reenascreena · 19-02-2013 05:30PM

The Beara Peninsula in Cork / Kerry - the western part is 50 miles west of Bantry, nearest "major" town, an hour's drive; 100 miles west of Cork city, two hours; 250 miles from Dublin, five hours - an hour to get to a minor hospital, two hours to a major hospital etc..
Mitchelstown in North Cork is roughly the halfway point between west Beara and Dublin.

enda1 · 19-02-2013 05:38PM

North coast of the Dingle peninsula maybe?

Its the longest section of coastline without a road on Ireland.

Probably not the furthest point from civilisation in a straight line, but could take the longest to get to it.
For example around where it says Loughaconeera on that map.

Some parts of West Donegal look really remote too.

Sh1tbag OToole · 19-02-2013 05:44PM

Someone just built a one-off house on the most isolated spot in Ireland. We're all DOOMED and no tourist will ever again visit

enda1 · 19-02-2013 05:47PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Someone just built a one-off house on the most isolated spot in Ireland. We're all DOOMED and no tourist will ever again visit

If you're talking about on my link then I think that's a sheep crush and dipping area.

Hunter21 · 19-02-2013 05:49PM

Killorglin Co Kerry- where the men act the goat and the goat is king!

tdv123 · 19-02-2013 05:51PM

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/17/article-0-0C968B9B00000578-794_634x466.jpg

snubbleste · 19-02-2013 05:53PM

I'd say the north western tip of the Mullet peninsula
Alternatively an island in Lough Corrib

Tombo2001 · 19-02-2013 05:57PM

The biggest actual wilderness in Ireland is in North Mayo.

Its a 20km by 20km area of mountain and bogland, so that means actual wilderness as opposed to farmland. And obviously no roads going through it (because if there was, then it wouldnt be isolated). Thats 400 square kilometres of pure wilderness. It takes 12 hours to walk from one side to the other, on a dry day.

Its a beautiful place and is rightly a protected nature site.

On the map its to the south and east of the n59 road, and Ballycroy National Park is the local heritage centre which details animal life in the area.

Zebra3 · 19-02-2013 06:09PM

Bertie's inner circle must be fairly isolated now.....

Pumpkinseeds · 19-02-2013 07:08PM

Castletownbere, I think the spelling is right, in Cork gets my vote.

Meangadh · 19-02-2013 07:14PM

It's hard to find a place in Ireland that's totally isolated in the sense of not being anywhere near even a small village. I'd say the most isolated places I've been personally are in Mayo, Connemara and maybe West Kerry. But unless you go up the mountains, in fairness it's not like you'd be driving hours without passing a house or village- Ireland's too small to have those kinds of distances between places.

Having said that, some of the most isolated parts of Ireland are breathtakingly beautiful. I'd rather live there than in some of the nondescript ghost estates around the county that exist at the moment.

John_Rambo · 19-02-2013 09:01PM

Meangadh wrote: »

Having said that, some of the most isolated parts of Ireland are breathtakingly beautiful. I'd rather live there than in some of the nondescript ghost estates around the county that exist at the moment.

Then the wouldn't be isolated places.

Andrewf20 · 19-02-2013 09:03PM

I remember reading that Slieve Carr mountain is considered the most isolated summit in mainland Ireland. Its in Sligo.

John_Rambo · 19-02-2013 09:08PM

Andrewf20 wrote: »

I remember reading that Slieve Carr mountain is considered the most isolated summit in mainland Ireland. Its in Sligo.

I've been up there, it's isolated and dramatic!

Most isolated place in Ireland

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