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I've never been to Armagh...

  • 27-01-2021 12:01am
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    Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭


    So i was doing some pondering during a recent bold journey and figured out I've been in all of our counties bar Armagh. My ocd spiked.

    Can anyone tell me a decent reason to visit. And also... are you in that same 31 county dilemma. Bonus point for Armagh being the one that got away.

    I feel like there's a prize for "finishing" Ireland


    Maybe a united ireland?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,389 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Actually, you missed out on my bonus point. Derry is the only one I haven't been to...


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭Northernlily


    Monaghan the only county on the whole island that I've never sat foot in or drove through.

    Any use?


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,707 ✭✭✭✭Hello 2D Person Below


    32/32 here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    32/32 here.

    What happens when you hit 32


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    All 32 here too - Armagh has Lurgan and Portadown and a big Sainsbury's (might not be Sainsbury's anymore) that does really creamy cakes. And you have to drive through it to get to Belfast, lots of roundabouts.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,492 ✭✭✭ArnoldJRimmer


    Waterford is the only county I've never set foot in

    Trying to think of a reason to visit Armagh, and outside of going to an Ulster Championship match, I'm pretty stumped.

    Trip Advisor doesn't exactly sell it either

    https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g186474-Activities-Armagh_County_Armagh_Northern_Ireland.html


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,472 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    If you’ve driven, or taken the train or bus from Dublin to Belfast then you have passed through county Armagh.

    Armagh town (“city”) is really lovely. Full of history and of course the brilliant planetarium (the only one on the island of Ireland) and observatory. I think of Armagh town as a sort of Kilkenny of the North.

    And my great-grandmother harked from Armagh too. :)

    Portadown is a horrible miserable dump of a place. Best avoided...


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,183 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    At the moment nothing open,even if you did travel.
    But the Planetarium is probably the best known attraction. Few historic buildings, etc.
    Womens prison slap bang in the centre of town, if that gets you going... :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Oops!


    31/32 for me.... I've never set foot in Mayo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    Cork Down,Kerry,Tipperary,Waterford, with the exception of Down i don't think I'm missing much


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Im nearly sure Carlow doesn't exist.

    Anyhoo, reasons to visit Armagh - there are some nice buildings.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    They gave years rodding into the wrong hole there


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,435 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Pretzill wrote: »
    All 32 here too - Armagh has Lurgan and Portadown...

    Well, that is certainly one reason to avoid it. Portadown is a miserable hole. Full of malice and spite.

    Wouldn’t ever stop there now except to use the “facilities” for a particularly bad one. It’s all that place deserves.

    The tide is turning…



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    I've masturbated in every county in connacht.

    I'm hoping to have a **** in laois before lockdown ends


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Oops! wrote: »
    31/32 for me.... I've never set foot in Mayo.

    A huge county -.with a stunning coast and the islands off it are beautiful, go. Not Now obviously but when we aren't locked up anymore.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    Well, that is certainly one reason to avoid it. Portadown is a miserable hole. Full of malice and spite.

    Wouldn’t ever stop there now except to use the “facilities” for a particularly bad one. It’s all that place deserves.

    Some fine sectarian history. ⊙_⊙


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,435 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    I've masturbated in every county in connacht.

    I'm hoping to have a **** in laois before lockdown ends

    Might I suggest the Rock of Dunamase?

    The tide is turning…



  • Administrators Posts: 53,127 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I'm from Armagh and I'm struggling tbh.

    Planetarium. Apples. Navan Fort.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    I hope you would. She is your sister after all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Oops!


    Pretzill wrote: »
    A huge county -.with a stunning coast and the islands off it are beautiful, go. Not Now obviously but when we aren't locked up anymore.

    Westport is suppose to be a nice spot i hear...


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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,183 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    awec wrote: »
    I'm from Armagh and I'm struggling tbh.

    Planetarium. Apples. Navan Fort.

    Stopped once on the way to Belfastfor a break and a coffee.
    Had a French teenager with us, over for a month.
    There was a cricket match in progress in the centre of town, and the youngster was mesmerised...
    He really thought it was a fictional game, from the pages of some 1930's English novel... :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    And also... are you in that same 31 county dilemma. ?

    Fermanagh for me.

    Haven't heard of any redeeming features, so no loss.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Fermanagh for me.

    Haven't heard of any redeeming features, so no loss.


    I went on a pilgrimage to visit the Holy Stone of Clonrichert in County Fermanagh once

    But some fecker had taken it and moved it to some feking island off the west coast of Ireland :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    Lough Neagh


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,836 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    I've masturbated in every county in connacht.

    I'm hoping to have a **** in laois before lockdown ends

    Bonus points for bashing the bishop in one county and landing the yoghurt in another. I call it the “Dukes of Hazzard”, because their trick was to shoot across county lines to get away from Sheriff Roscoe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Oops! wrote: »
    Westport is suppose to be a nice spot i hear...

    There are worse places to spend lock down in for sure.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Fermanagh for me.

    Haven't heard of any redeeming features, so no loss.

    https://www.killyhevlin.com/social-community/blog/2017/08/04/enniskillen/fermanagh-s-stairway-to-heaven/73-34/

    Lough Erne is beautiful too. Fermanagh is a lovely spot.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Cork Down,Kerry,Tipperary,Waterford, with the exception of Down i don't think I'm missing much

    Yeah you’re not wrong mate; there’s a good reason tourists completely ignore places like Cork, Kerry and Waterford.


  • Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭chosen1


    JupiterKid wrote: »

    Armagh town (“city”) is really lovely. Full of history and of course the brilliant planetarium (the only one on the island of Ireland) and observatory. I think of Armagh town as a sort of Kilkenny of the North.

    It's a nice looking town center but it would be Kilkenny with zero craic.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    . I think of Armagh town as a sort of Kilkenny of the North.

    Been reading David McWilliams have you?


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