Things you expect to see in rural Ireland

Mike 1972

owenc wrote: »

What are they anyway?

Signs at the end of narrow country lanes with route numbers

Slightly similar to the road name signs we have on just about every road/country lane in NI (but only slightly)

Some pictures on this page And yes seemingly there is such a place as "Twomileborris"

owenc

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Signs at the end of narrow country lanes with route numbers

Slightly similar to the road name signs we have on just about every road/country lane in NI (but only slightly)

Alright so the names of the roads, but the country lanes have numbers... any need for that lol!

Mike 1972

owenc wrote: »

Alright so the names of the roads, but the country lanes have numbers... any need for that lol!

Nope outside of towns/cities many roads down there dont have (official) names but many of them now have route numbers (although the quality/extent of signage varies widely)

In such areas mail delivery and suchlike depends on a quaint "system" of (mostly unsigned) "townlands" completely incomprehensible to anyone who hasnt lived in the area all their lives. What few attempt to introduce a proper system of road designation/postcodes/housenumbering have been made tends to be fiercely resisted on grounds of "tradition" :rolleyes:

Even in formerly rural areas which have become suburbanised by the expansion of nearby towns many longtime residents cling doggedly to this "townland" concept.

Its not just South of the border though either. I remember reading about how back in the 1960's attempts to introduce a proper system of addressing in Northern Ireland met with a lot of resistance in some rural areas -particularly in Fermanagh)

yuloni

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John C

- Poppies blooming redly in a few fields
- Horses
- since that film Shrek, donkeys are "IN"
- Sheep blocking the road

- Potato harvesting with four persons working on the harvester.

- In July and August: a yellow New Holland Combine harvester followed by up to three Ford tractors with trailers on the road.
Above team cutting corn and transporting grain to the local mill or own granary. Sometimes this harvester is a green Klaas. Tractors: David Brown, Fendt, Massey and John Deere.
Later a baler, bales drying and being collected with a loader.

- After the harvest" guys spending a percent of their hard earned wages (+12 hous/day) in the local pub. The unmarried workers, agra contractors and farmers talking about heading for Lisddonvarna matchmaking festival.

- large puddles of water in the winter
- Bingo buses

- Individual and group worship at Grottos
- members of a minority religious group preaching in the town square
- People observing RC church holidays that are no longer public holidays
- Neighbours who are members of a minority religion observing these church holidays in unison with those above
- Combine Harvesters in action on Sunday when rain threatens

- People socialising after mass/church on Sunday
- People driving to their relatives in city hospitals on Sunday

- locals on the 8th December heading for the shops in "the city" to buy toys
- clothes drying on a line in the morning with sunshine and wind
later: rain, sunshine, gusts and hail and more sunshine
- mothers telling their children "get in the clothes"

Seloth

Actually most roads do have names..there just not well known!

And townlands should only be applied to groups of houses in the country that arent a village.For instance the one I live in has 14 houses around each other.Theres a village then 2 miles away and a town 4 .

Mr Cawley

No decking

jesus the dubs love decking

new decking sorsha, greaaaate:D

owenc

Seloth wrote: »

Actually most roads do have names..there just not well known!

And townlands should only be applied to groups of houses in the country that arent a village.For instance the one I live in has 14 houses around each other.Theres a village then 2 miles away and a town 4 .

A... townlands are a thing of the past, you hear me when i say they haven't been used since like 1900!!! Its a discrace that that republic of ireland government are still using them.:rolleyes:

Mike 1972

Seloth wrote: »

Actually most roads do have names..there just not well known!

Well if theres no signage how is anyone supposed to know ?

Seriously in rural Ireland asking the question "where the fup am I" almost constitutes a breach of the official secrets act.

storm2811

Seloth wrote: »

Actually most roads do have names..there just not well known!

And townlands should only be applied to groups of houses in the country that arent a village.For instance the one I live in has 14 houses around each other.Theres a village then 2 miles away and a town 4 .

There's about three townlands along my lane,with about 7 houses on that lane(about 3/4 miles long.:pac:)

I wouldn't mind using a postcode instead of townland but all the postmen know where the townlands are around here, and if someone wasn't familiar with the area they can usually find the little signs at the top of lanes soo..

owenc

storm2811 wrote: »

There's about three townlands along my lane,with about 7 houses on that lane(about 3/4 miles long.:pac:)

I wouldn't mind using a postcode instead of townland but all the postmen know where the townlands are around here, and if someone wasn't familiar with the area they can usually find the little signs at the top of lanes soo..

I thought a townland was like 20 miles long.

Seloth

Thinking about it now,My dads farm((Not by my house...tis about 20min drive away))has techincally encompasses two townlands.

Well if theres no signage how is anyone supposed to know ?

Seriously in rural Ireland asking the question "where the fup am I" almost constitutes a breach of the official secrets act.

The roads have names,I never said the areas dont .

I would describe a towloadn as a grouping of houses myself,and then what most would call a townland I'd call an area :L.FOr instance I put down for my adress the specific area"Blah blah" then the greter area"Blah bleh" then the nearest town"Bloop blop" then the county.

Taxi drivers,postmen and guards know where to go,and fire fighters just look for the smoke .

When ever friends or family ear drive I just give directions and describe the house,same with delivery men.

storm2811

owenc wrote: »

I thought a townland was like 20 miles long.

Not neccesarily,mine is about 7km2,the ones beside me are about the same.
There are bigger ones though,which probably would be that size.

Seloth: I dunno what I'd call a townload,all I know is they seem to have been here since the dawn of time and there's no definate start or end line. :pac:

Yeah everyone knows where everywhere is,kinda strange if ya think about it..

owenc

storm2811 wrote: »

Not neccesarily,mine is about 7km2,the ones beside me are about the same.
There are bigger ones though,which probably would be that size.

Mines is about 20 miles in total area and even runs into county antrim which is about 8 miles away. Opps your right i'm talking about cival parishes, i always get confused with them!

Seloth

They're mostly just divisions of old estates are they not?

minister poxbottle

very nervous looking sheep :eek:

Mick Daly

Smelly old farmers ridin' sheep and cattle.

John C

Seloth wrote: »

They're mostly just divisions of old estates are they not?

Some townlands are ancient.
http://www.ballybegvillage.com/land_division.html
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townland

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But can we keep on the topic of sights in rural Ireland

- old mlk churns being used as flower pots
- seaweed instead of artificial fertiliser
- a heap of lime in a farmyard

- minors driving tractors with their parents approval and other people's disapproval
- a farmer cutting his neighbour's corn in daylight and his own in darkness
- neighbour's borrowing tools and not returning them

- persons walking the roads at night without an armband or reflective jacket
- people offering locals and visitors "a spin" if they see them walking

storm2811

John C wrote: »

But can we keep on the topic of sights in rural Ireland

- old mlk churns being used as flower pots

I know a woman who has a huge soup pot from the workhouses during the famine that she uses as a flowerpot!

shoefiend

hairy topless farmers doing silage...

Marthaa

People without bronchitis

BumbleB

In Pubs,
Wallpaper on ceilings.
Outdoor holes for men to urinate in .
Pictures of JFK.
Ritchie Kavanagh Live.


Signs in the middle of nowhere showing the way to Ceannus /or point up to the sky.

Guys on tractors with AC/DC t-shirts.

12 squad cars outside the nightclub. Women boxing men who are a little too frisky.


Pictures of the sacred heart.

Pics of st john paul vist .

boxty

Major cigarettes.

Hang sandwiches .

10-10-20 bags on the floor of the car.

Mick Daly

An old farmer with his willy out and the sheepdog licking it.

Min

Clean air.
Good neighbours.
Nice scenery.
Dubliners moving down to get away from Dublin.

ejmaztec

Min wrote: »

Clean air.
Good neighbours.
Nice scenery.
Dubliners moving down to get away from Dublin.

Is that under the "Organised Crime Rural Re-settlement Programme"?

Wade in the Sea

Sign: Feck off Crows!

Piste

In every small country town there are always at least 3 Chinese restaurants.

goat2 wrote: »

think about it you city and townie folk
we get to work ten miles away in minuits, you are backed up in traffic all morning,
we have fine back yards, good size garages, big gardens to front, veg gardens, fruit trees most of us have our homes on an acre of ground, space, space, space , we can have walk in fresh clear air anytime, we also hit clean beaches, would not change my life for any other,
we know our neighbours, can rely on them.
all i can say is i am not jelous of your lives

But there's no Topshop.

Min

ejmaztec wrote: »

Is that under the "Organised Crime Rural Re-settlement Programme"?

lol, for some maybe.

stovelid

Fuck all.

BumbleB

Piste wrote: »

In every small country town there are always at least 3 Chinese restaurants.



But there's no Topshop.

or mac D's