Will you go to ploughing 2019?

Say my name · 11-09-2019 1:40pm

hopeso wrote: »

There will be traffic plans in place for miles before you get to the site. There's no point planning your route on a map. You'll just have to go the way you're sent, which may not be the direct route. There is a map and a guide to the traffic plans on the NPA website.

Yea the Waterford and south Kilkenny crowd are being directed through Gowran, Goresbridge, Borris, and onto Fenagh and ploughing site.

You can still use Google maps to work out the length and time without traffic on that route.
Just go Fenagh to borris on Google maps and borris to kilkenny.
Tis simple.

Villain · 11-09-2019 4:34pm

FYI the Gardai have a web app this year which is very good see https://garda.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=c11c4045bb814be696c38318d962a448

The weather is looking nice and dry and might even get warm for Wednesday and Thursday, if anyone has any questions around local diversion etc let me know and I'll try.

Also for any ICA members I'm giving a presentation on my hobby Carlow Weather in their tent on Tuesday at 3pm.

See you all in the sunny southeast next week

Snowfire · 13-09-2019 11:55am

I’d say the atmosphere at the ploughing this year will be fairly somber, between brexit, the beef trade and the latest milk price cuts, I wonder will the traders notice a reluctance in farmers willing to part with money this year.

davidk1394 · 13-09-2019 12:02pm

I’m going up for a day. I’ll have a good look at parlors cubicles and water drinkers. All I’m missing is the money :P

K.G. · 13-09-2019 9:42pm

What day is creed coming as o wont go that day

Dickie10 · 13-09-2019 10:30pm

why do the ploughing crowd never donate a bit of the gate to charity?

3 the square · 13-09-2019 10:42pm

Are things going to get nasty up at the ploughing
Over on Facebook there are guy talking about a hurricane hitting the board bia, aldi , lidl tents

giveitholly · 13-09-2019 10:44pm

3 the square wrote: »

Are things going to get nasty up at the ploughing
Over on Facebook there are guy talking about a hurricane hitting the board bia, aldi , lidl tents

Was that not last year?

K9 · 13-09-2019 11:48pm

Dickie10 wrote: »

why do the ploughing crowd never donate a bit of the gate to charity?

They’re too hungry for money for themselves

kollegeknight · 14-09-2019 8:11am

Wasn’t going to go as new role at work means I’m up the walls with things to do. But boss asked me to go as a few of the lads aren't Great at following instructions and I’d be slightly better at dealing with them.

Didn’t really have the cash to go this year as we had to replace a car and trying to do a few jobs on the house.

jimmy G M · 14-09-2019 8:31am

Going on weds, plan on calling in to some selected stands to give them my opinon on a few things.... might buy one of those coloured driver sticks if I can afford it......

Weather looks good for this year....

Reggie. · 14-09-2019 8:31am

jimmy G M wrote: »

Going on weds, plan on calling in to some selected stands to give them my opinon on a few things.... might buy one of those coloured driver sticks if I can afford it......

Weather looks good for this year....

Sure buy 3

patsy_mccabe · 14-09-2019 9:31am

jimmy G M wrote: »

Going on weds, plan on calling in to some selected stands to give them my opinon on a few things.... might buy one of those coloured driver sticks if I can afford it......

Weather looks good for this year....

I started using a hazel stick around here since last year. A long one, just short of shoulder high. Picked a few up when I was back in the Burren. The only job.

If you showed up at a meat factory (long long ago when they were open) with one of those ploughing sticks, they'd run you out of the place.

einn32 · 14-09-2019 9:38am

Not going this year. I can't get it off work. I'm not really missing much anyway I'd say.

jimmy G M · 14-09-2019 11:15am

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

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If you showed up at a meat factory (long long ago when they were open) with one of those ploughing sticks, they'd run you out of the place.

I brought a couple of hurls and a sliotar to a picket one eve.... we had a grand puck around. .

older by the day · 14-09-2019 1:29pm

It was thirty Euro entry, when it was in cork. That was a spell ago. How much for me and the wife and three teen kids

hopeso · 15-09-2019 8:42pm

If I go, it will probably be Thursday..... I notice that traffic from my side is routed through Athy...My little experience of Athy is that it's not a free flowing town. Is this likely to be a bottleneck during the ploughing?

dzer2 · 15-09-2019 8:43pm

hopeso wrote: »

If I go, it will probably be Thursday..... I notice that traffic from my side is routed through Athy...My little experience of Athy is that it's not a free flowing town. Is this likely to be a bottleneck during the ploughing?

yes its a bottle neck every day

Stationmaster · 15-09-2019 9:19pm

I've a few bits to get in the next few months in relation to a new shed, troughs/feeders for pigs/sheep/poultry, rainwater harvesting tank and other small bits. Would there be decent deals at the ploughing or would it be more just for a look?

Bullocks · 15-09-2019 11:33pm

I'll head on Tuesday with the two young lads .We missed Tullamore which I prefer over the ploughing and went to no local shows this year either so looking forward to a day out . Hopefully the weather will be sound

Villain · 15-09-2019 11:36pm

Oh the weather will be sound and Carlow will be looking her best!

https://twitter.com/carlowweather/status/1173335067466305536?s=21

Biscuitus · 16-09-2019 6:03pm

I'm mostly going to buy some of the coloured sticks.

BarryD2 · 16-09-2019 7:13pm

Sheep breeder wrote: »

The word is the man that owns the site bought a licence and has all the beer on site sown up and for the next three years.

Hope that last bit is not true! As a site, it's hugely disruptive to anyone from South Wicklow, East Carlow or North Wexford who has reason to be going Carlow direction for work or study. The NPA are basically closing down a main arterial road, the N80 from 10am this morning till Friday afternoon next. This road carries a lot of traffic normally which will be forced onto lengthy diversions on much smaller roads. It's one of the main roads to Rosslare port. Combine that with the big influx of event traffic and there'll be míle murder.

I'm not sure if this is a first but siting the event slap bang on a national primary road will affect many more people going about their business than in previous years. It has previously being held at Grange, Tullow & Oakpark, Carlow and Ferns but these sites didn't involve closing down a main road for a full week. I just hope people send their bills to Anna May and her committee.

Lime Tree Farm · 16-09-2019 7:37pm

I used love to watch the Ploughing on Irish TV, especially presenter Malachi Cush, loads of charisma, very natural down to earth and entertaining. I’m surprised we haven’t seen him on other stations since Irish TV folded in 2017.

https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/06/05/news/malachi-cush-recovering-well-after-dungannon-crash-1634738/

visatorro · 16-09-2019 9:27pm

Heading down Wednesday I think. Going to buy all round me

Albert Johnson · 16-09-2019 9:31pm

Settling in for the last sleep before the ploughing, I'm like a child at Xmas. Herself booked us two nights in what I'm reliably informed is a glamping site somewhere in deepest darkest Kilkenny. I've never "glamped" before but it seems to be a real life version of wanderly wagon. Hopefully the weather stays good and we can all enjoy whatever the next few days will bring.

atlantic mist · 16-09-2019 9:35pm

are products discounted?

Reggie. · 16-09-2019 9:37pm

visatorro wrote: »

Heading down Wednesday I think. Going to buy all round me

Ya wanna learn how to open the wallet first

Reggie. · 16-09-2019 9:37pm

Cant go myself. Way too much work on. Good complaint but needed to see a few bits

visatorro · 16-09-2019 10:58pm

Reggie. wrote: »

visatorro wrote: »

Heading down Wednesday I think. Going to buy all round me

Ya wanna learn how to open the wallet first

Problem is its wide open at the minute. Everything has fallen out!

The Nutty M · 17-09-2019 4:20am

I'm trying to vote on that but it keeps coming up that I do not have permission to vote.

I won't be going and anybody I know from around that would usually be going is not. Main reason is it's location. The traffic plan for us coming from the west looks like murder.
Annie May will be lucky if it doesn't turn into another New Ross.

wrangler · 17-09-2019 7:13am

We're organising the producer group lambs this week so can't go,

kollegeknight · 17-09-2019 7:17am

Enroute- one student a no show- she is German and her host parents arrived late at the wrong garage and wouldn’t try catch the bus.

PistolPete78 · 17-09-2019 7:50am

Stuck in traffic in Abbeyleix last 10 mins. Fair heavy. Nice day out though.

Lime Tree Farm · 17-09-2019 8:59am

https://player.fm/series/series-2281703/we-all-have-to-make-a-living-and-the-beef-farmers-wants-a-good-price-for-his-product

you have to hand it to Anna May.
“We all have to make a living and the beef farmers wants a good price for his product”

Say my name · 17-09-2019 9:31am

Stuck in traffic the last 45 minutes coming from the wexford side.
20 minutes from clohamon to bunclody and now just 1 mile away from turn off for tullow.

GoneHome · 17-09-2019 11:39am

The Nutty M wrote: »

I won't be going and anybody I know from around that would usually be going is not. Main reason is it's location. The traffic plan for us coming from the west looks like murder.
Annie May will be lucky if it doesn't turn into another New Ross.

Having spoken to some of the folk from around my locality (rural Co Limerick) none of them going this year for the same reason, traffic plan looks to be a nightmare, wouldn't fancy being stuck in the middle of that any of the three evenings travelling every back road in the area to try and get back onto the motorway.

Bullocks · 17-09-2019 11:53am

I don't know what it will be like going home but we got in around half nine and traffic was moving all the way without any big delays.
Lovely weather and dry conditions

GoneHome · 17-09-2019 11:59am

A friend of mine left Cork city at 6.00 a.m. was just speaking to him on the phone, he got there at 11.40 said traffic was an absolute nightmare.

revoke12 · 17-09-2019 12:01pm

GoneHome wrote: »

A friend of mine left Cork city at 6.00 a.m. was just speaking to him on the phone, he got there at 11.40 said traffic was an absolute nightmare.

Sounds manic, Im going Thursday was going to leave kerry at 5.30 sounds like its chaos more this year than ever with traffic, weather bringing alot more.

Stationmaster · 17-09-2019 12:30pm

revoke12 wrote: »

Sounds manic, Im going Thursday was going to leave kerry at 5.30 sounds like its chaos more this year than ever with traffic, weather bringing alot more.

That sounds crazy. Sister left east clare around 5.45am and was parked up by 8.45am and that was after a short break at Obama Plaza.

kollegeknight · 17-09-2019 1:48pm

We left north Clare at 05:00 and were onsite at 08:30-

Scorcher of a day. Serious amount of underage drinking.

hopeso · 17-09-2019 2:28pm

Bullocks wrote: »

I don't know what it will be like going home but we got in around half nine and traffic was moving all the way without any big delays.
Lovely weather and dry conditions

Which route was that?

Reggie. · 17-09-2019 3:28pm

hopeso wrote: »

Which route was that?

I'm guessing the green route

alswearengen · 17-09-2019 5:26pm

The Nutty M wrote: »

I'm trying to vote on that but it keeps coming up that I do not have permission to vote.

I won't be going and anybody I know from around that would usually be going is not. Main reason is it's location. The traffic plan for us coming from the west looks like murder.
Annie May will be lucky if it doesn't turn into another New Ross.

102,500 attended on Day 1. Biggest event in Europe so far this year apparently.

revoke12 · 17-09-2019 5:53pm

Some attendance, heading from kerry on thursday so the limerick side anyone let me know how that route was travelling up today?

mobfromcork · 17-09-2019 6:26pm

I'm living locally enough and the Brown route is near enough the bottom of our hill. I was in and out of Carlow this morning and went over to the ploughing around 12. Partner also went to work in Carlow and drove in around 8.20 and no serious traffic at that time anyway. Small bit slow through Nurney coming home but kept moving nonetheless.
First time there and was really taken aback at the volume of people and amount of stalls etc. Weather was incredible. Had two smallies in tow which meant the wandering around for increasingly difficult as the day went on but enjoyed it all the same. I wasn't in the market to buy much stuff but a few things I have had my eye on were pretty much the same price as they would be regularly as far as I could see. Great to see the ranges of machinery and equipment though. Brilliant vintage stuff on show as well. Really enjoyed it overall.

K.G. · 17-09-2019 6:58pm

On way home and the trick for south cork people is go yellow route through waterford worked great today as people seemed to get caught bad onthe blue route. Many thanks the ifa for the tae,t was boiling down there

Bullocks · 17-09-2019 7:07pm

hopeso wrote: »

Bullocks wrote: »

I don't know what it will be like going home but we got in around half nine and traffic was moving all the way without any big delays.
Lovely weather and dry conditions

Which route was that?

Green from the west

Bullocks · 17-09-2019 7:17pm

I'm just home. I had a bitch of a head cold that I shouldn't have left home with.
I thought there was a big crowd but I didn't meet any farmer there from home. I didn't think it was laid out great and did a lot of walking without seeing much, I'd rather if all the farming stuff wasn't mingled through with sweets and gammy stalls

Will you go to ploughing 2019?

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