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What is Dunleer like to live in?

detergez

We are thinking of re locating to Dunleer with our children. We would like to get some feedback from anyone who lives or has lived there.

What are the locals like? Would they be clannish or would they welcome us?

What schools are in the area? And which one is the best one to send children to?

We have looked at the Rivervale estate? Is this a good estate or a no no?

What facilities is there sports wise for young children?

Any other points or tips be great to help us make our decision.

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kormak

detergez wrote: »

Macadam you are a life saver!!! We were literally going to buy in Rivervale!!:eek:

What is the situation with the houses there? Sinking floors?!!!!

Thank you so much. Back to the drawing board.:(

what about looking in Tenure??
some beautiful houses there going for half nothing.
Not much in it though... shop, church and school.

Whiskey Devil

OP - I'm no expert, if fact, that's probably the understatement of the year!! but I'd be very wary of buying any house (particularly those built in recent times!) without having them checked over by somebody who knows what they're talking about..

Also, would you not consider spending a bit of time staying in a b&b in the area before commiting your future to it.. Have a look at the schools, try the commute, sample the pubs etc..

It's a HUGE decision.. don't mean to sound like an arse..

whelan1

kormak wrote: »

what about looking in Tenure??
some beautiful houses there going for half nothing.
Not much in it though... shop, church and school.

i live in tenure , any questions fire away

detergez

Thanks everyone for your comments. We are going to wait a while and look around before jumping in.;)

Odysseus

detergez wrote: »

Would anyone know what the traffic is like from Dunleer to Dublin in the mornings?

I commute from Clogherhead which is about 10 miles approx from Dunleer. I mostly use the Ashborune road then on to the N2. However, I do at times use the M1 and in general its fine, but then again I'm on a bike.

Another option would be to come off the M1 at Duleek and follow the same route, you get off the N2 at the M50 at Finglas. A work mate who drives a car finds this a better route as well and she is in a car. That way you would avoid the M1 toll and you don't have to pass through Drogheda.

lucernarian

If you come off the M1 at the Donore Road junction you'll have to pay the toll there too

francie81

detergez wrote: »

Also my job is in Dublin so i would have to commute daily ,so it is trying to outweigh the pro's with the con's?!

OP am living in Dunleer all my life also and without need for me to break it all down as 'event' has already done so in an optimistic way.

Looking at your own situation relocating from the city life to the more urban quieter life this village is very ideal and I think many who have done so now living here would have took note of it being a great hub of the belfast/dublin route.

Odysseus

To_be_confirmed wrote: »

If you come off the M1 at the Donore Road junction you'll have to pay the toll there too

Sorry my mistake, I noticed that yesterday. I down usually drive south bound past there, hence my mistake.

TravelJunkie

detergez wrote: »

Hi Event. Thanks very much for that information. It s a big decision for us as the children would have to start all over again,and im a little nervous because of them.

Also my job is in Dublin so i would have to commute daily ,so it is trying to outweigh the pro's with the con's?!

Would anyone know what the traffic is like from Dunleer to Dublin in the mornings?

Takes us 1 hour from Dundalk to Red Cow on the M50. So I'd say you're looking at about 45 minutes. Not bad.
Or, 35 minutes to tunnel and add 25 minutes through Drumcondra traffic to city centre Dublin2 in peak hour. Total commute - 1 hour 10minutes.

maticm18

Hello everybody. I know that this thread is old but I would like to get some update. We want to buy house in Dunleer, we where checking houses in Woodlands. Can you guys recommend this area and Dunleer town as well?

macadam

maticm18 wrote: »

Hello everybody. I know that this thread is old but I would like to get some update. We want to buy house in Dunleer, we where checking houses in Woodlands. Can you guys recommend this area and Dunleer town as well?

Wodlands is a lovely estate with a well finished house, the estate is currently being finished by Louth Co Co, roads paths etc, the only problem I can see with it is if the unfinished houses are turned into Local authority housing which may devalue the private dwellings, Ive nothing against local authority housing grew up in one myself, it just might leave your property less valuable, other than that Dunleer is a fine place to live..

5.11 Tactical

Avoid Dunleer like the plague, heres my reasons why :

1.) A highly clannish and sectarian town
2.) People are overly nosey
3.) A high rate of alcholics and bar rats.
4.) A high rate of drink driving
5.) If your not from there they will not accept you
6.) A lot of uneducated unwilling welfare experts
7.) The Local Secondary school is out of control and again a lot of sectarism.

I went to school there and learned at a young age what disgusting attitudes people in general have to non catholics.

Small Village narrow mentality...

Stick to Dundalk or Drogheda but avoid the kip.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I'm not from Dunleer but I can't agree with any of that. That does not reflect my visits to the town or any of the people I know there.

5.11 Tactical

I would suggest living there and going to school there.

As a teenager and as an adult I have seen more sectarianism there than my time in Belfast, it is like a scratch card, sooner or later you see what is going on.

This is my personal experience and also local newspapers about the area are filled with facts of the high level of drink driving and generally scumbagery in the village.

These are not things estate agents are going to tell you about...

Again Avoid..

macadam

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

Avoid Dunleer like the plague, heres my reasons why :

1.) A highly clannish and sectarian town
2.) People are overly nosey
3.) A high rate of alcholics and bar rats.
4.) A high rate of drink driving
5.) If your not from there they will not accept you
6.) A lot of uneducated unwilling welfare experts
7.) The Local Secondary school is out of control and again a lot of sectarism.

I went to school there and learned at a young age what disgusting attitudes people in general have to non catholics.

Small Village narrow mentality...

Stick to Dundalk or Drogheda but avoid the kip.

1.) Dunleer is anything but clannish or sectarian ask any of the latest 1000 or so people from various religions who recently moved there.
2.) as for being Nosey, dunleer people are the friendliest youll meet on the east coast.
3.) A high rate of alcholics and bar rats, Id like to know what eveidence you have to back this up, there are 5 public houses in Dunleer which is the average for a small town, you dont see anyone falling around or drinking from brown bags along the streets.
4.) Id say theirs no more drink driving in the area than any other small town in Ireland, actually Id say theirs less as the traffic corp use it for access and egress to the M1 daily.
5.) SEE 1 Above !!
6.) One of the most industrial small towns in Ireland !!
7.) Myself my wife and my children went to both schools in Dunleer I have yet to see anytrouble along the route of the secondary school hardly even see a bit of litter, and you will see all the ethnic minoritie children who live locally mixing well with everyone in the school.

As for non Catholics Dunleer has a CoI that has a service every Sunday and In my life I have yet to see any sectarianism or bigotry in what was a village and is now a small town.
You actually couldnt be any further from the truth with your seven points, you obviously fell out with someone in Dunleer and are taking it out on the town as a whole..
Dunleer will provide anyone with all they need the only things I see wrong with the town is the lack of clothes shops, we have a good selection of pubs, a very good restaurant, decent chip shops which are virtully trouble free spots at 3am on weekends. Dunleer can provide you with Gaa clubs Soccer, basketball, a decent Recreation Center with a gym an out door track for running there are also various clubs in Dunleer Camera and film clubs historical club, Womens Club theres a decent hardware store good grocery and newsagents, excellent butchers a garage car dealers car wash, ..
What more could you want from a small town??????????

whelan2

on the secondary school, I think its a fantastic school, eldest lad goes there and the rest of my kids will too. If it wasnt a good school why are the numbers increasing year on year, speaks for itself

MugMugs

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

Avoid Dunleer like the plague, heres my reasons why :

1.) A highly clannish and sectarian town
2.) People are overly nosey
3.) A high rate of alcholics and bar rats.
4.) A high rate of drink driving
5.) If your not from there they will not accept you
6.) A lot of uneducated unwilling welfare experts
7.) The Local Secondary school is out of control and again a lot of sectarism.

As a former resident of Dunleer, I read the above and said, "sure he's entitled to his opinion, incorrect as it is. "

But then you top it off with this utter nugget!

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

Stick to Dundalk or Drogheda but avoid the kip.

I live in Dundalk and can honestly say that I'd be less surprised to witness the above there than in Dunleer.

5.11 Tactical

MugMugs wrote: »

As a former resident of Dunleer, I read the above and said, "sure he's entitled to his opinion, incorrect as it is. "

But then you top it off with this utter nugget!

I live in Dundalk and can honestly say that I'd be less surprised to witness the above there than in Dunleer.

Might be an idea to have a chat to the local gardai about protestant children getting escorts to the bus stop in the 90's and attacked on the street and told to go back to your own country, spat at and degraded... I would expect that in Belfast but again a little insular sectarian town...

I personally witnessed it as I was one of those children...

Again a KIP

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

2014. Dunleer is a place I'd love to see my children or grandchildren settled in. A charm of a town.

macadam

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

Might be an idea to have a chat to the local gardai about protestant children getting escorts to the bus stop in the 90's and attacked on the street and told to go back to your own country, spat at and degraded... I would expect that in Belfast but again a little insular sectarian town...

I personally witnessed it as I was one of those children...

Again a KIP

Thats the first I ever heard of this happening in Dunleer which was a village in the 90s and something like this would have been spoke about, as you say it was town where everyone was nosey etc etc , also with 3 gardai who done different shifts getting an escort was highly unlikely, especuially with the 3 gardai I remember being there in the 90s two of whom still live locally. I presume you were completely innocent in all this if it ever happened at all..
As far as protestants go Dunleer has a number of CoI families who live work locally and get on with everyone else in the parish, some of them play GAA and as long as I remember religion never came into any argument or disturbance in Dunleer, I can safely say I know most of these families and often shared a pint and a joke with some of them, I was actually working with one of them today, also the village of Dunleer was once owned by a protestant family and parts of it still is owned by them today, they have lived here over 400 years, and even through some of the troubles that has occurred in this country down the years they were always safe and welcome in Dunleer...

MugMugs

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

Might be an idea to have a chat to the local gardai about protestant children getting escorts to the bus stop in the 90's and attacked on the street and told to go back to your own country, spat at and degraded... I would expect that in Belfast but again a little insular sectarian town...

I personally witnessed it as I was one of those children...

Again a KIP

Even if this is true then you're going back nearly 25 years. Move on man, the rest of us have.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

MugMugs wrote: »

Even if this is true then you're going back nearly 25 years. Move on man, the rest of us have.

+1. Something like that would have made at least the local papers and I have to say I have never even heard of it. I would have been 45 or so then and was well aware of local issues.

Zane97

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

Avoid Dunleer like the plague, heres my reasons why :

1.) A highly clannish and sectarian town
2.) People are overly nosey
3.) A high rate of alcholics and bar rats.
4.) A high rate of drink driving
5.) If your not from there they will not accept you
6.) A lot of uneducated unwilling welfare experts
7.) The Local Secondary school is out of control and again a lot of sectarism.

I went to school there and learned at a young age what disgusting attitudes people in general have to non catholics.

Small Village narrow mentality...

Stick to Dundalk or Drogheda but avoid the kip.

OP you couldn't be more wrong. Far from it. Sectarian? Never seen or hear it. Drink driving? Your laughable.

Loads of people have moved here in the last 10 years and like it. A lot of highly educated people went through the Secondry school here .

Lots of people in this Village are proud to live here. People that moved for Dublin and Drogheda to set up home here.

You might have had a bad experience in the past with a school bully? They obviously get the better of you.

So to end , your points of 1-7 are complete rubbish. Houses are selling here again . People are attracted to what Dunleer has to offer.

Jlo251

Hi guys

Any opinions on wood grove heights as an estate??

Zane97

Jlo251 wrote: »

Hi guys

Any opinions on wood grove heights as an estate??

It's a good estate... It would overlook Dunleer as such as it sits on a big hill :-)

Same entrance as Mountain View , but more modern houses.

event

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

This is my personal experience and also local newspapers about the area are filled with facts of the high level of drink driving and generally scumbagery in the village.

I would LOVE for you to throw up some proof there, should be easily available if it's as rampant as you claim

Jlo251

Robbie G wrote: »

It's a good estate... It would overlook Dunleer as such as it sits on a big hill :-)

Same entrance as Mountain View , but more modern houses.

Super, thanks for that! Heard some people had issues with soundproofing in the houses but think that's an area called riverdale rather than wood grove , Seems like a lovely village close to everything

macadam

For Location on the east coast Dunleer is very well situated 45mins to Dublin on the M1 and 55mins to Belfast, if the train station would open it would be a great asset to the small town of Dunleer.
Woodgrove heights is a small quiet estate adjoining Mountain view which is extremely quiet, all the estates private and local authority are the same, yes you will have the odd bit of vandalism but I think Dunleer is well below par to similar towns villages of its size...

Jlo251

macadam wrote: »

For Location on the east coast Dunleer is very well situated 45mins to Dublin on the M1 and 55mins to Belfast, if the train station would open it would be a great asset to the small town of Dunleer.
Woodgrove heights is a small quiet estate adjoining Mountain view which is extremely quiet, all the estates private and local authority are the same, yes you will have the odd bit of vandalism but I think Dunleer is well below par to similar towns villages of its size...

Thanks for that

I'm sure dunleer has gotten a lot busier since this thread began! It seems to be the new hotspot as it's on the motorway

macadam

There was a development plan put in place to stop the over growth in the village back when the tiger was roaring, which actually worked to the village/towns favour.