Whats in Athboy?

marrakechheat · 18-05-2011 10:33am #1

Hi, might tag along to Athboy this Friday, partner dropping off his parents. Ive never really been to Athboy, just went pass it a couple of times. Can anyone tell me if theres anything worth looking there before driving back. Ill arrive there quite late, like 6 PM. So, maybe just a quick wander around the shopping centre, if any. Have a browse in Penneys, Dunnes, or even Tesco. Doesnt hv to be exactly in Athboy, anything anywhere in a radius of 10 kms is fine.

Thank you

INCONFIDENCE · 19-05-2011 10:40am

Oh Dear

Athboy is a hard town to spend time in. I hear they have a new bacon slicer in the supermarekt and you could watch that. Tea in the Darnley is quite good if you are a culchie and like loads of meat. The Sadlers Well is a lovely bar and is so clean you could eat off the floor , you must like horses though. If you want to pub crawl make sure your tetanus is up to date especially if you want to take wiily to the gents if you get my drift. If you are a man you could get suited and booted off Brian Faulkner in Faulkners Fashions he is an extremely nice bloke who is in no way pushy and will help you find what looks good on you. If you are a woman there are a few boutiques selling flowery gunas. Check the local paper for bingo if you like meeting oul wans. Check out the Leavys some of the girls are lookers and some of the guys are talented singers. Matt Leavy has an album on sale locally and if you like Horse Opera he is your man. Be careful,if you are a male of the local women it is a Deliverance type town and they are always interested in new blood for breeding purposes. You could be kidnapped and find yourself a prisoner in a secret local farm where they are trying to breed the Irish Master Race. If you are a red head there is no need to worry. Athboy Ice Skating Stadium is closed until November, The New 200 Screen Multiplex opens in 2015 and both shops in Athboys American Style Multi Storey Designer Outlet Mall close on a Friday at 5.

kc66 · 19-05-2011 11:43am

You might want to go to Navan, bit of a spin, and detours in place.

redser2 · 19-05-2011 12:55pm

It's the last outpost of Meath
I've never stopped in it, driven through it while getting to a nicer place though.

Also, the one person I know from the place is a backstabbing little c**t. And this blurs my view of the place as well - can't help it - sorry.

jack321 · 20-05-2011 12:39pm

not much in Athboy no supermarket like dunnes tesco lidl aldi supervalue etc , you have to drive to Navan which is about 17 miles away over a bog road in parts so expect a bumpy ride in parts. Pubs in athboy have names like something out of Ryans daughter - the waxies dargle the cosy corner the old darnlie lodge etc. no real shops in athboy, its almost westmeath, also no bus to navan. so all in all nothing to do in the place the village is like an old country town. the hold the blue jean country queen festrival there every year !

marrakechheat · 20-05-2011 8:41pm

jeez, so not worth me riding in the car, so had a nice time cleaning the whole house, thx all

NufcNavan · 21-05-2011 10:42pm

"What's in Athboy" A f*ckload of pubs...

bryaner · 21-05-2011 10:54pm

Only thing you'll get in Athboy is a good kicking around 1.30am.

Head on to Navan and you'll get the same at around 2.30am

upmeath · 23-05-2011 1:03am

I haven't walked its fine street in a few years. I doubt I've missed much.

kearney13 · 27-06-2011 2:01am

Best thing in Athboy is the road out of it or the cosy corner

meathstevie · 30-06-2011 5:59pm

An awful lot more than you'd think. It just depends on what you're into.

bryaner · 30-06-2011 6:21pm

meathstevie wrote: »

An awful lot more than you'd think. It just depends on what you're into.

Oh yea forgot the go karting.

Conor_M1990 · 07-07-2011 10:25am

Buck Mulligans if thats worth metioning

Seanchai · 19-07-2011 11:00pm

Was in Athboy for the Leinster Fleadh some years ago. The troglodyte of a pub owner where I was listening to about ten musicians playing kept the television on loud at the same time. Disrespectful prick. I asked the girl behind the counter could she turn it off. She lowered it slightly. As if anybody in their right mind would visit that deadbeat pub were it not for the talented musicians playing there. What insulting bastards.

I hope Athboy never again gets the Leinster Fleadh and the tens of thousands of people who go to it.

Seanchai · 19-07-2011 11:02pm

On the other hand, Baile Átha Buí has a huge and very important history which nobody here has given credit to yet. From the medieval wine cellars which marked it as a trading centre between Connacht and Leinster to its important cattle market and its well-known (and very detailed) medieval charter there is huge potential to resurrect Athboy as a heritage town.

INCONFIDENCE · 20-07-2011 11:37am

God Seanchai you really raised the hare. I remember a band in Athboy one weekend playing on a truck with the loudspeakers in the street above them playing a different tune. I though how insulting , if I was in the band I would have left. You raise an interesting point about the 2 sounds . How can you watch TV in a bar with 98FM coming through the speakers. How can you listen to 98FM with the TV in your ear. Bars don't appear to want music they want noise, if I find 2 on and nowhere to seat so I can only hear one I leave. To me it is like being in hell.

upmeath · 03-08-2011 5:25pm

The Old Darnley Lodge does a decent bit of grub, no doubt about that. Was back there a couple of weeks ago for the first time in years, yum.

INCONFIDENCE · 03-08-2011 10:27pm

God the Darnley is great if you like meat and meat and more meat. My ham salad was all meat and very little salad. I know most will think I am mad . The Darnely is a red meat eaters paradise , nice mixed grills on a Sunday. I was in another restaurant in Athboy and after an hour I enquired what was keeping my salad, the waitress came back and said they were waitiing for it to cook. I left and never went back

kc66 · 04-08-2011 10:57am

Someone who was in the Darnley a few weeks ago for food told me they couldn't believe how grubby and dirty it was.

INCONFIDENCE · 04-08-2011 3:20pm

kc66 wrote: »

Someone who was in the Darnley a few weeks ago for food told me they couldn't believe how grubby and dirty it was.

I think you are being unfair . OK if you were there yourself but your were not .

Mully_2011 · 05-08-2011 7:58am

Athboy is a nice little town alright. Shame its in the middle of nowhere

vinn · 29-10-2011 8:39am

the road out of it is the best part
and dont buy diesel if you want to drive home !!!!!

markc1184 · 29-10-2011 8:51am

INCONFIDENCE wrote: »

I think you are being unfair . OK if you were there yourself but your were not .

Agreed. I was at a wedding there a few months ago and the reception area and rooms were spotless. Only qualm I had was everything on the plate was covered in garlic!

What is the name of the chipper close to the Darnley? Nice chips after a bucketload of drink!

meathstevie · 01-11-2011 12:44pm

vinn wrote: »

the road out of it is the best part
and dont buy diesel if you want to drive home !!!!!

2 out of the 3 places that sell diesel in the town are grand

endplate · 06-11-2011 10:54pm

meathstevie wrote: »

2 out of the 3 places that sell diesel in the town are grand

the place in question has now changed supplier and the diesel seems ok now. I get my diesel there again. I did stop for a while as I was worried about the potential damage but all is ok now

Littlehorny · 06-11-2011 11:05pm

Know the town well, but like all small towns in this country its the pub, a gaa match of fook all else! If you like Guinness or any other beer for that matter head to Floods there pints are the cream! Also the food in the Darnley is always good.

Brokentime · 21-02-2012 9:53am

I'm from Athboy, but have been living abroad for 2 years now and haven't been home. Is it even still standing? What's the unemployment situ. there? Have any of the pubs closed or any new ones opened?

JupiterKid · 06-04-2012 9:05pm

I took a spin yesterday with a friend in my car after I finished work for the Easter hols and decided to head up the new M3 motorway and do a circuit route via Athboy and Trim back to Dublin.

No offence but I found Athboy to be a rather frozen in time, slightly shabby place. My friend was reticent about going into a pub to use the jacks as he thought the place looked right out of the film Deliverance.:eek::pac:

I thought the main street surface was atrocious and badly needs improving. Also the road through Athboy - the N51 - is an atrocious goat track of a road which badly needs widening and straightening out. The town could probably do with a bypass but I'd say that's a long way off.

We left Athboy and headed for Trim - a beautiful gem of a town with the river, the impressive castle and other historical features. Trim seems a million miles away from Athboy.

Isn't it true that there's a tiny Gaeltacht near Athboy?

chewed · 07-04-2012 8:43am

JupiterKid wrote: »

Isn't it true that there's a tiny Gaeltacht near Athboy?

Yes, it's called RathCairn.

Littlehorny · 07-04-2012 10:40am

chewed wrote: »

Yes, it's called RathCairn.

Rathcairn is not that big but its still the biggest Gaeltacht in Leinster:)

JupiterKid · 07-04-2012 4:41pm

Littlehorny wrote: »

Rathcairn is not that big but its still the biggest Gaeltacht in Leinster:)

This is interesting - how many Irish speakers would there be in Rathcairn? I can't see there being too many as most people have never even heard of the Gaeltacht area in Meath.

Isn't it true that the Rathcairn Gaeltacht was created when farmers from the West of Ireland were relocated to Meath by the Land Commissiuon in the 1930s?

Is Athboy itself within the Rathcairn Gaeltacht? The town could really do with a bit of sprucing up and modernisation.

Whats in Athboy?

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