nutgrove rathfarnham

Is it Loreto or Mountainview?

Both are former council estates, but are mostly privately owned houses now. Loreto is pretty quiet nowadays (grew up there, parents still live there), good neighbours and close to anything you'd need, except a pub.

Mountainview is pretty much the same, but is a much bigger area. The houses would be slightly bigger than those in Loreto too.

The only real blemish to the area is that there is a halting site behind Nutgrove SC and while they tend to keep themselves to themselves, it's a bit of an eyesore, with some of the houses boarded up and accumulated scrap etc which builds up there from time to time.

ogmac wrote: »

f*** sake I had a wander round nutgrove ave and even went in the shopping centre little did i know right behind it was a halting site! Dunno what area of rathfarnham it is as you come out of the shopping centre turn left onto the nutgrove road and go towards the yellow house pub its that side but only a few hundred metre's down the road from the shopping centre.

I didnt notice any pubs in the immediate are which I found strange, thats a big minus for me

That sounds like Loreto from your description

These are settled travellers, and in 5 years of living 5 minutes walk from that 'haulting site' have i heard of any / seen any trouble there. local scobies are worse but a none threat as they say please when they try to bum a smoke off you

I lve just in at the back of the loretto football field / park and i have to say its a decent place to live indeed. Nutgrove is fierce handy as the tesco opens late.

As for a pub depends on exactly where you are if u are that close to nutgrove as i am churchtown or dundrum have some, or theres the eden on the grange road which is a 5 minute stumble for me. if your in loretto then its 7-10

As for the main question whats the area like , its a long long way of being a bad area. again depending on where you are there are several choices for buses to town but ither than that ur not going many other places, my main issue not having the car is the bus routes and the luas is a 30 minute walk from me.

Ah didnt mean to come across like that Mike sorry, just i felt its not really a hault as there are never / rarely any caravans there and its like 10 bungalows, far from being an eyesore its out of the way really unless ur in a car or bus by it,

Now that you have me thinking though, there is that one house in the middle thats been burnt out (roofless etc) for a long time. As long as i can recall anyway.

Can deffo add a +1 for silvios better than place down the village by a mile and then some.

Havent been down the village so much anymore since i move up this side, is the castle the place on the left just up from centra (same side) ??? that was closed for a good while while wasnt it?

Futurewarrior wrote: »

Are you joking? You get fook all and its a rip off.

quality not quantity

Rb wrote: »

fwiw I got a silvio's recently and it was absolutely foul.

I've gotta say that i've never seen the attraction of silvio's. I've never thought it was anything special!

As far as Iknow it is closed again. It opened back up about 5 weeks ago, but closed very quickly, mayhem in the village one night:rolleyes:

Which one is the inn? Is that the one just down on the same side as centra? I though it was decent enough last time i was in, mind you that was about 3 /4 years ago. Not living over that end now so rarely if every pass that way anymore.

Is the tuning fork still open anytime ive passed its had its shutters down?

garbanzo wrote: »

Hey Calex71.

The "Tuner" is shut a long time now. Always a very strange pub . . . . even though the bar could be a bit lively at times. *******, the Landlord was as odd as two left feet.

From what I hear poor old Vincent has lost a leg due to gangerine. The pub closed when he got ill.

Alofthedunnes wrote: »

Was it Charlie?

That rumour did the rounds a few months ago. Totally false.

Anyone spot the big wheel in the carpark of nutgrove shopping centre?

They say there will be ice skating also :eek:

i've lived around the rathfarnham-ballinteer area my whole life,
i grew up going to nutgrove all the time.
the area's gorgeous, i love it..
holds a lot of memories for me and everythings right at your door step!

Rb wrote: »

As has been said, Loreto and Mountainview (The Holylands) used to be council estates. Holylands is a bit touch and go, on the outskirts it's all privately owned and they're nice, decent people however in the inner core there's still some bad families who've caused a lot of trouble in the area over the last 20 years. Those who live near there know who I'm referring to.

As a whole I'd imagine Nutgrove will be a fairly handy place to live, the shopping centre is a bit of a kip but the 24 hour tesco there is very convenient, especially with the free parking.

With regards to pubs, do not go to the bottle tower, it's a complete and utter dive. Castle or Revels in Rathfarnham Village, Buglers, Glenside and RodeoJoes (lol) are in Churchtown are all within walking distance and there's more in Dundrum.

"Holylands" WAS a rough area up to 10years ago however the ppl who caused loads of trouble are now in jail, dead or too brain dead to cause trouble...as far as the outskirts being privately owed MOST of the inner homes are privately owned too there is no trouble there anymore in fact when I visit I'm always surprised how quite it is, there used to be gangs of ppl hanging round houses at all times of the day and now nothing its a quite pleasant and nice area to now live
this i thought i would never say but i am thrilled that i can