Most miserable and grim towns and villages in Ireland

freshpopcorn · 19-04-2020 8:12pm

Panda Killa wrote: »

Nope..it's a kip...and full of some of the vilest people I have ever met...

Didn't Primetime do a feature a few years ago about rough areas and Glanmire was one of the places featured on it.

Panda Killa · 19-04-2020 8:14pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Didn't Primetime do a feature a few years ago about rough areas and Glanmire was one of the places featured on it.

Yeah.... drop into The Castle, local drinking establishment some time...they welcome you with a glassing

barrymanilow · 19-04-2020 8:15pm

Tuam

triggermortis · 19-04-2020 8:16pm

BrianD3 wrote: »

So many candidates. Places with narrow streets, a mix of gloomy three story buildings and more modern eyesores, long closed shops and pubs, not much tourism. Where local employment consists of food factories employing surly foreign nationals who are treated like sh*t.

Ballybay, Co. Monaghan?

Some places that are rough kips are not necessarily grim. If there is chaotic parking on a main street a place can look "bustling" E.g. Bailieborough. On the other extreme, kips with wide streets and ample parking like Strokestown get a pass.

Then there are small places that look like they have barely changed since the 1950s. Ballintra, Co Donegal
https://www.google.ie/maps/@54.5784478,-8.1246875,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stqAQqVnzbI6b4EmA6byhAQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

When I started reading this, Ballybay came straight to mind!!

Seamai · 19-04-2020 8:18pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Didn't Primetime do a feature a few years ago about rough areas and Glanmire was one of the places featured on it.

Like I said earlier that's Riverstown a mile north, sprawling new housing estates, syringes found in the kids playground, no small wonder why they'll tell you they live in Glanmire.

freshpopcorn · 19-04-2020 8:20pm

Seamai wrote: »

Like I said earlier that's Riverstown a mile north, sprawling new housing estates, syringes found in the kids playground, no small wonder why they'll tell you they live in Glanmire.

Are you trying to sell houses in Glanmire?

Deiselurker · 19-04-2020 8:27pm

Fethard in Co Tipperary is a grim looking place that looks like it's stuck in a time warp and has awful bumpy road surfaces.
I lived in New Ross over 20 years ago for a short time and it wasn't great although maybe it's livened up with the influx of Polish and other immigrants since then. It's now bypassed as well as traffic was awful there for years.

Be right back · 19-04-2020 8:29pm

Seamai wrote: »

Like I said earlier that's Riverstown a mile north, sprawling new housing estates, syringes found in the kids playground, no small wonder why they'll tell you they live in Glanmire.

I have to say that I wouldn't have thought Glanmire as being very rough.

PhilOssophy · 19-04-2020 8:30pm

Ok close the thread, re-open and name it "Nice towns in Ireland".
I bet, what one person loves the next person will call a kip.
Many towns in rural Ireland have suffered from underinvestment, rates being wasted on council expenses rather than being spent as they should be, i.e. improving the look of the town.
They are also suffering due to poor footfall on the high streets, which is partly due to people with money spending it online or in Dundrum etc.
This leaves many of these towns with scobies hanging around bookies and pubs and generally causing nuisance for people, which is a good look for now town.
Many towns are in desperate need of a clean up and a paint job and with a few nicely thought out flora and fauna.

Airyfairy12 · 19-04-2020 8:30pm

Castlerea 1000% the town should be flattened with a bulldozer.

Surprised I haven't seen Edgworthstown on the list, if you want to see a town stuck in a time warp, Edgerwortstown is it. Rooskey and Dromod are another two hellholes. They have shop fronts that look like they haven't been touched since the 1930's.

Panda Killa · 19-04-2020 8:31pm

Be right back wrote: »

I have to say that I wouldn't have thought Glanmire as being very rough.

All I'll say is, I'm glad I never have to go back

Be right back · 19-04-2020 8:32pm

Panda Killa wrote: »

All I'll say is, I'm glad I never have to go back

Fair enough!

freshpopcorn · 19-04-2020 8:32pm

Be right back wrote: »

I have to say that I wouldn't have thought Glanmire as being very rough.

PrimeTime gave it a bad rap a few years ago. Certain parts are meant to be an extension to Mayfield. Which some would consider rough.

Jonybgud · 19-04-2020 8:33pm

dublin's a kip, that is all

smelly sock · 19-04-2020 8:33pm

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Castlerea 1000% the town should be flattened with a bulldozer.

Surprised I haven't seen Edgworthstown on the list, if you want to see a town stuck in a time warp, Edgerwortstown is it. Rooskey and Dromod are another two hellholes. They have shop fronts that look like they haven't been touched since the 1930's.

The midlands in or around Longford and the athlone side of Roscommon are dumps.

smelly sock · 19-04-2020 8:34pm

Athenty is another kip along with Headford.

Be right back · 19-04-2020 8:35pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

PrimeTime gave it a bad rap a few years ago. Certain parts are meant to be an extension to Mayfield. Which some would consider rough.

Yeah, Mayfield can be rough in parts. Can make the headlines for the wrong reasons.

Seamai · 19-04-2020 8:35pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

Are you trying to sell houses in Glanmire?

No, I wouldn't want to live in the village, being on a tidal estuary I think it will have problems down the road.

Seamai · 19-04-2020 8:37pm

Be right back wrote: »

Yeah, Mayfield can be rough in parts. Can make the headlines for the wrong reasons.

It can be but I'd say it's far from the roughest part of the city.

the dark phantom · 19-04-2020 8:37pm

Spencer Brown wrote: »

Because unless they levelled the place in the meantime it won't have improved :pac:

It got worse in the last twenty years. These places don't the population to support thriving towns and most of the people who have the power or means to effect change in these towns don't actually live in them so they have no incentive to do anything.

Ray Donovan · 19-04-2020 8:39pm

Calahonda52 wrote: »

The road surface has been fixed so as they have a nice welcome for the new residents who have made a wonderful cultural contribution to the village

I can't figure out if there's sarcasm or not in this post...?

ShamNNspace · 19-04-2020 8:40pm

barrymanilow wrote: »

Tuam

Could you expand a bit did you get a bad pint there one time or what?

Sultan of Bling · 19-04-2020 8:46pm

flazio wrote:

Rathkeale, County Limerick. Close the thread here.

Never been there boss but would have thought it would feature a lot more than it has.

LiquidZeb · 19-04-2020 8:47pm

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I grew up in a small West of Ireland town, and am a regular visitor back to Ireland, especially during the summer months. My own town wouldn't even be a particularly awful one, by the admittedly low standards it would be compared against.

It's the whole package of small town Irish life that fills me with horror. The lack of ambition inherent in a decision to live in one of these awful places. The nosiness, the resentment, the jealousy that emerges as your mind starts to warp during to lack of intellectual and cultural stimulation. The boarded up shops and pubs, the decay, the fading signs, the empty butcher, the sadness. Gormless looking men standing in a pub door sharing a rollie cigarette. Fat-arsed women wearing a O'Neills tracksuit pushing a trolley around the local Supervalu while two peanut-headed children follow her around. The Wrangler bootcut jeans, Superdry jackets, and checked shirts. The acceptance of 3rd world levels of dental hygiene amongst the populace. The pints of cider while playing pool in a ran down pub on a Tuesday night.

Yeah I know I fcuking dread it myself. I'm fecking off to Germany ASAP

Sober Crappy Chemis · 19-04-2020 8:47pm

Jonybgud wrote: »

dublin's a kip, that is all

Looks like you really hate CAPITALS so much.

smelly sock · 19-04-2020 8:49pm

Carnew.

Mic drop.

19-04-2020 8:52pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

You live in Roscommon. Nuff said.

Still a good few steps up from Dublin, where I lived for 30 years.

Sober Crappy Chemis · 19-04-2020 8:56pm

smelly sock wrote: »

Athenty is another kip.

Wow wie the fweilds of Athenty.....

Ubbquittious · 19-04-2020 8:57pm

Shannon Town. Looks like some social engineering experiment gone wrong

Galwayguy35 · 19-04-2020 8:58pm

barrymanilow wrote: »

Tuam

It used to be but it's actually not a bad town now at all.

AndyBoBandy · 19-04-2020 9:00pm

I spent a few weeks down in Tarbert, Co. Kerry back in 2004 and it was fairly grim!!

Also I’ve been in and around Tynagh in Co. Galway a fair bit over the years, and it’s not got a lot going for it, apart from one of Europe’s largest go-kart tracks!!

ChikiChiki · 19-04-2020 9:01pm

Never been there but my vote goes to Tipperary Town. The hack of the shoddy run streets and the locals are like something out of deliverance allegedly. A place where allegedly Covid 19 won't cross the inside the town boundaries.

Lord Spence · 19-04-2020 9:07pm

fryup wrote: »

Shannon Town - weird town, weird people > soulless

Great Town, Great People. Soulless? Nope!

Oops! · 19-04-2020 9:07pm

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Never been there but my vote goes to Tipperary Town.

Seamai · 19-04-2020 9:09pm

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Shannon Town. Looks like some social engineering experiment gone wrong

I'd never been there until my curiosity got the better of me a few years ago on a trip back from Galway, a half an hour wasted.

Infernal Racket · 19-04-2020 9:14pm

All that fandango wrote: »

Oh yay another thread on a topic thats already been done to death on here.

And yet you found some precious time to comment

deaglan1 · 19-04-2020 9:16pm

A cultural and architectural delight along the main street of a large West of Ireland town - photo taken in 1920...sorry, 2020!!!!! Any guesses?

pidgeoneyes · 19-04-2020 9:17pm

Rochfortbridge.

Lord Spence · 19-04-2020 9:19pm

Seamai wrote: »

I'd never been there until my curiosity got the better of me a few years ago on a trip back from Galway, a half an hour wasted.

It's a great town to grow up in and raise kids, it's by no means a visitor attraction.

TheRiverman · 19-04-2020 9:19pm

Athlone, Church Street which is the main Street down the centre of the town has been destroyed by the awful "street enhancement" plague.The Town Centre shopping centre should never have been built during the boom. The site of the old Athlone Shopping Centre is disgraceful with the awful obnoxious multi storey carpark and closed up shop units that are just ugly and an eyesore.Connaught Street on the Westside is now almost completely derelict with very depressing closed up shops.The Golden Island Shopping Centre is built on what used to be the old rubbish dump beside the River Shannon,there is constantly a smell of sewerage around the carpark.I live about 15 km approx from it and it is not the great town anymore that I remember from my childhood.

JohnnyFlash · 19-04-2020 9:26pm

deaglan1 wrote: »

A cultural and architectural delight along the main street of a large West of Ireland town - photo taken in 1920...sorry, 2020!!!!! Any guesses?

Ballinasloe?

Sober Crappy Chemis · 19-04-2020 9:30pm

deaglan1 wrote: »

A cultural and architectural delight along the main street of a large West of Ireland town - photo taken in 1920...sorry, 2020!!!!! Any guesses?

Galway 'city' ?

The_Kew_Tour · 19-04-2020 9:31pm

Mallow. For a town that should offer so much the place is so run down with no pride in some shops and upkeep is terrible. One way system is joke. A horrible town now, 20 years ago it was great town.

Every town in Tipp seems depressing but for Cashel which is still just ok

Rathkeale. Christ what happened. Well it's obvious but anyway.

Dont get hate for Tralee. Rough during night maybe but great town to shop about

billyhead · 19-04-2020 9:32pm

Balbriggan although it has potential.

Gbear · 19-04-2020 9:47pm

Buttevant Co. Cork. It's an awful place.

I once said to one of my friends, "what's the name of that ****e place on the way to Limerick?"

"Oh, Buttevant?".

deaglan1 · 19-04-2020 9:49pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Ballinasloe?

Congratulations...your prize is a pristine sheet of A4 paper...to avail of this magnificent reward, please send a self-addressed and stamped envelope to Headoffice, Galway, European Capital of Culture, 2020.

Ubbquittious · 19-04-2020 9:51pm

deaglan1 wrote: »

A cultural and architectural delight along the main street of a large West of Ireland town - photo taken in 1920...sorry, 2020!!!!! Any guesses?

I actually love those shops if they're still open. Much better than a soulless Spar with mad bright lights

Jurgen Klopp · 19-04-2020 9:52pm

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Shannon Town. Looks like some social engineering experiment gone wrong

The trouble is it your actually right. It was never a village or town historically, it was purpose built for the airport workers and their families along with the later additions of the various factories.

You'll always here people in Clare it's not a real town, it isn't there isn't really any sort of history or culture to the place. However in saying that all places started somewhere so maybe in time it will find its own identity, but can't see it for a long time

ChikiChiki · 19-04-2020 9:56pm

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Mallow. For a town that should offer so much the place is so run down with no pride in some shops and upkeep is terrible. One way system is joke. A horrible town now, 20 years ago it was great town.

Every town in Tipp seems depressing but for Cashel which is still just ok

Rathkeale. Christ what happened. Well it's obvious but anyway.

Dont get hate for Tralee. Rough during night maybe but great town to shop about

A lot of towns never emerged from the last recession. Castlerea is another example. Unfortunately they will end up even worse again after the pandemic fallout.

the purple tin · 19-04-2020 10:02pm

Has anyone said Moate yet?
What am I saying, of course they have

Most miserable and grim towns and villages in Ireland

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