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Your favorite Irish county

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  • 29-11-2020 5:09pm
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭


    What's your favorite county in Ireland and why? (Including the occupied 6 in Munster but let's try and keep it civil)

    Mine is Leitrim. Yes, it's the smallest and no one knows why it exists as a county but I find coming across someone from Leitrim exceedingly rare.

    But when I have they've always been lovely. Genuine all round very nice people

    Plus it has great scenery!

    I'd highly recommend Carrick-on-Shannon for a visit :)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Leitrim

    The population of Leitrim in 1841 was 155,000 : o


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    fluke
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    Galway. Always have had a soft spot for Galway. Why? I went to few trips to the Aran Islands and Galway city, and always enjoyed it.

    If I could wave a magic wand I'd move there.


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    EmmetSpiceland
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    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

    Mine is Leitrim. Yes, it's the smallest

    It’s not the smallest.

    The tide is turning…



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    Smee_Again
    Registered Users Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭Smee_Again


    Leitrim isn’t the smallest, that honour goes to Louth.

    Galway is my favourite, both for the scenery and having the best town/city in Ireland in Galway.


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    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,308 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    I don't judge places on arbitrary lines drawn by the Brits.


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    barney shamrock
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    I spend a lot of time in Donegal with my job, love it up there.
    Nice people, great scenery and clean crisp air.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Limerick or Cork by a long long way over any of the other 24.


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    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Donegal. Lovely and wild up there


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    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    Louth is the smallest county, not Leitrim. I used to live in Leitrim.
    Cork county and Donegal are beautiful, also love Mayo and Kerry.


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    dobman88
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    What's your favorite county in Ireland and why? (Including the occupied 6 in Munster

    Think you need a Geography lesson


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    Purple Mountain
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    Cork. I love the people and I just love the coastline, especially west Cork down around Skibbereen and Roscarbery.
    UCC has fabulous architecture too and the English Market is just so charming.

    To thine own self be true



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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    It’s not the smallest.

    Pedant.

    Smallest population.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Kerry.

    Sligo quite underrated.


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    French Toast
    Registered Users Posts: 722 ✭✭✭French Toast


    Kerry. Love being down around Killarney in find weather.


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    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I like Cork too, and Wicklow.
    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    Pedant.

    Smallest population.
    In fairness, you were asking about the counties and not the people of the each county, so one would assume you meant the size.


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    Samuel T. Cogley
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    Dublin.


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    Pkiernan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,315 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    ReginaldSmythV wrote: »
    Limerick or Cork by a long long way over any of the other 24.

    Thinky veiled Unionist propaganda... ;-)


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    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    Thinky veiled Unionist propaganda... ;-)

    Blast it with piss


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    IamtheWalrus
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    Can’t see beyond Monaghan tbh, for its natural beauty, stoney soil and stop off from Dublin-Letterkenny.


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    McGinniesta
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    artanevilla wrote: »
    I don't judge places on arbitrary lines drawn by the Brits.

    Yes you do.

    Which one is your favourite?


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    ChikiChiki
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    Mayo, spent my the best parts of my childhood there and the happiest days. Wonderful scenery and great easy going fun people. Everytime I cross the border it fills me with all the joy from the memories.

    Hopefully, when I get the funds together to build my forever home there it will be.


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    mistersifter
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭mistersifter


    Donegal. The most spectacular scenery on the island, great people and a great accent :)


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    #23
    ThewhiteJesus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,714 ✭✭✭ThewhiteJesus


    Clare, a beautiful and friendly county, Kilkee the highlight


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    #24
    COVID
    Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭COVID


    Longford


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    Trouser Snake
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    Kerry. Go out the Dingle Peninsula and it always blows me away.


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    Glenomra
    Registered Users Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Glenomra


    Clare and limerick for me


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    alchemist33
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    Anywhere on the west coast. I'm from one of them, live on another, and anytime I'm holidaying in Ireland the west coast is my preferred destination.


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    Upforthematch
    Registered Users Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭Upforthematch


    Can't decide.

    Any coastal county from Wexford west to Kerry north to Donegal and east to Antrim.


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    #29
    Tuco88
    Registered Users Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Tuco88


    County Cork. Never mind a united Ireland, Peoples Republic of Cork...


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    Thinky veiled Unionist propaganda... ;-)

    It’s in the thread title.


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    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    All the 26 are my favourite.


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