Head beat off me for saying it

thomur

Watched the Farmleigh documentory this eve. The English took care of our heritage a lot better than we would have. Its up to us now. Great job on the Royal canal but what else.

BostonB

Forget to record it. Must watch it.
http://www.rte.ie/player/#!v=1144438

Capt'n Midnight

'our' heritage ?

They took care of their stuff.



The only reason we have Georgian buildings left in Dublin is that we didn't have the money needed to redevelop

mikemac1

Out rural a lot of the old estate houses are gone

Burned downed in the twenties under the cover of the IRA but more to do with locals and farmers settling scores and had pretty much nothing to do with republicanism.

And those left had such huge rates [which Jack Lynch abolished but we have the household charge now ] that the owners just left or made them inhabitable. In some cases removing the roof

This is a cracking site, love it
http://www.abandonedireland.com/start.html

There is a book on sale too
I'm not shilling, the book is just out there if you want it

kylith

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The only reason we have Georgian buildings left in Dublin is that we didn't have the money needed to redevelop

Good. They're a sight better than any buildings we put up since, imo.

foxyboxer

The English. A great bunch of lads.

44leto

Taking care of heritage is expensive and I can certainly understand why a fledgling state had other priorities like health, education, security, etc etc. Also it was a lot less enlightened age.

I always thought Woodquay was a tragedy, on one hand you had the best example of a Viking settlement anywhere in Europe, or a Pill Box, we got the pill box.

Think what they could have done to that site as a tourist attraction, it would have being better then the Guinness hops store.

miketv

mikemac1 wrote: »

Out rural a lot of the old estate houses are gone

Burned downed in the twenties under the cover of the IRA but more to do with locals and farmers settling scores and had pretty much nothing to do with republicanism.

And those left had such huge rates [which Jack Lynch abolished but we have the household charge now ] that the owners just left or made them inhabitable. In some cases removing the roof

This is a cracking site, love it
http://www.abandonedireland.com/start.html

There is a book on sale too
I'm not shilling, the book is just out there if you want it

Just ordered the book cheers!

SEPT 23 1989

Wattle and Daub all the way

gerrycollins

mikemac1 wrote: »

Out rural a lot of the old estate houses are gone

Burned downed in the twenties under the cover of the IRA but more to do with locals and farmers settling scores and had pretty much nothing to do with republicanism.

And those left had such huge rates [which Jack Lynch abolished but we have the household charge now ] that the owners just left or made them inhabitable. In some cases removing the roof

This is a cracking site, love it
http://www.abandonedireland.com/start.html

There is a book on sale too
I'm not shilling, the book is just out there if you want it

i know of two houses. Grattan house in Mountbellew Galway and the house in Portumna Galway (both gone). theses houses would have easily riavled Farmleigh House however they are gone.

The even was one near my home house but all that remains is one wall of it. Local farmers used the stone from it for houses, churches and roads such was the state the country was in between the 20's and 50's

I Heart Internet

Not an english/irish thing but our Church of Ireland brothers and sisters have done an excellent job of looking after their (and our) church architecture.

The catholic church has, imho, a disasterous record of wreckovating Irish churches, expecially since the 70s (albeit, many only 100-150 yeard old as opposed to, generally, much older CoI stock). A few gems remain...but they are the exception.

WindSock

Some of the best things about our country is from the legacy of the Brits. From the buildings, art, infrastructure and humour.

Madam

Good Gawd! Another thread with the Irish running themselves down:mad: Carry on lads - your awfully good at it:rolleyes:

shedweller

Madam wrote: »

Good Gawd! Another thread with the Irish running themselves down:mad: Carry on lads - your awfully good at it:rolleyes:

Thats partly why we are where we are. Of course, we felt great about ourselves a few years ago but made a bollix of that too!

biko

Madam wrote: »

Good Gawd! Another thread with the Irish running themselves down:mad: Carry on lads - your awfully good at it:rolleyes:

Location: Scotland

Sure, didn't England build Scotland too :stir stir:

mikemac1

Remains of small local castle in North Tipp

Pulled down to build walls for the quays so slate could be shipped across the Shannon to Limerick

And nobody gave it a second thought
People were more practical back then maybe, if you need stone then pull down the local castle.
Castle is a bit generous, was just a tower realy for the O'Kennedys who Cromwell beat the **** out of and so they declined

But going back to the OP, this was done back in Famine times when a lot of projects were done just for the sake of work

Nice pics but not very interesting, just local that's all

ScumLord

We're gone too far the other way now putting heritage orders on dilapidated buildings because a small group of people are used to the building where it is.

ejmaztec

Councils and corporations don't really give a fuck what gets demolished and what gets built, they allow any old sh1te to be thrown up.

Dyr

I Heart Internet wrote: »

Not an english/irish thing but our Church of Ireland brothers and sisters have done an excellent job of looking after their (and our) church architecture.

You mean after they nicked the ones that the papists built?

I Heart Internet

Bambi wrote: »

You mean after they nicked the ones that the papists built?

Well I didn't want to mention that unpleasantness but those churches physically would be in a very different shape now if the RCC still had them on their books.

ejmaztec

Bambi wrote: »

You mean after they nicked the ones that the papists built?

The Church of England nicked all the Catholic ones in England as well, the thieving feckers.

I_p_freely

thomur wrote: »

Watched the Farmleigh documentory this eve. The English took care of our heritage a lot better than we would have. Its up to us now. Great job on the Royal canal but what else.

The Guinness' sold the place because it was going into disrepair! Needed a new roof among other things.

I'm always suprised by how many of those houses are around. I live in Leixlip and we have Castletown house, Carton house, Leixlip house, Liffey valley house hotel this place in kilcock --> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2012/0405/1224314382625.html

They are all within 10 mins of me. Crazy! A lot of rich people back then.