What is the most depressing looking town in Ireland?

Mike Guide 69

Couple of places that have been mentioned already:

Portarlington - Where me mum comes from, she only heads there to visit relatives, only for that she wouldnt be seen dead in the place. Was already on a downward spiral when the peat towers were knocked down and a couple of factorys closed over the years. Combined the fact that it was ideally located as a commuter town but nothing built around (services wise) to accommodate new house buyers prove that it was going to end in disaster

Clara - Tumble weed galore in this place,played a few matches at their ground and it is totally lifeless as a town. Friend i went to college with bought a house there in the "good old celtic tiger" days ( a new estate) with the hope of renting it out for extra income, turned out to be a disastrous move as he couldnt get anyone into it and now has a house on his hands along negative equity to boot (his engagement ended over that decision for the house, you've been warned!!!)

Kildare Town - Despite the fact that Outlet is located there, its one of those "settler" towns that has no life, thank god for the bypass!!!!

RINO87

Kilcormac co offaly, only second to killimor co galway. Awful awful crappy one street towns with not a jot going for them.

OkeyDoke12

Bettystown and Laytown

Wanderer2010

Durrow, Co Kilkenny. Just driving through it makes me suicidal...

Thespoofer

Dungarvan is a grand town, can't believe someone mentioned it.
Was at a firework display a few months back there and they put on some show over the harbour, absolutely beautiful. They did themselves proud.

bboybaboy19

Thespoofer wrote: »

Dungarvan is a grand town, can't believe someone mentioned it.
Was at a firework display a few months back there and they put on some show over the harbour, absolutely beautiful. They did themselves proud.

when putting a fireworks display on is them 'doing themselves proud' it kinda says it all about the town

siblers

Millstreet is another, only there once. People seemed weird there.

RoscommonTom

another question wrote: »

Really? Have you ever been to Sligo? I must say I have never met anyone who has actually been to Sligo say they didn't like it, in fact they have only ever had positives to say about it.

Iv been there manys the time and I think its a hole ,

Frank Lee Midere

bboybaboy19 wrote: »

when putting a fireworks display on is them 'doing themselves proud' it kinda says it all about the town

It's a pretty seaside town. Some of the choices here are ludicrous.

flas

adocholiday wrote: »

Longford town, and the majority of other towns in the county which have already been mentioned (Ballymahon, Granard, Edgeworthstown etc.)

The whole county is depressing. The biggest problem is the lack of jobs in the area. Most of the young people between 21-35 are gone except for a few. Last Saturday I was out in what was once the most popular pub in Longford town 10 years ago. There was about 30 people in the place all 50+. The word depressing doesn't even begin to describe it

I grew up in the town,am from there, left for college 8 years ago and have not lived back there since,go home regularly though. Up until 5 or 6 years ago the place was a lively place,always busy and was a real bustling town,weekends were always mental and it was a nice place if a little rough around the edges! Then when the recession hit it hit very very hard, and like you have said all us young people left, with absolutely nothing to bring us back! The people running the town are absolutely useless, and that's being nice (I wouldn't call them politicans because that would be insulting to politicans and that is saying something)!

PropJoe10

I seem to remember Ballybofey being quite a dump when I was last there, but thats a good few years ago now. Maybe its improved since then.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Thomas D wrote: »

Prosperous.

The people who named it really had a good sense of irony.

Davarus Walrus

Tullamore isn't up to much either. It's the only town where I've witnessed someone taking a shíte in public. A rather large man who was almost certainly a member of the traveling community.

Laois_Man

Some not mentioned
Cavan Town
Tullow
Arklow
Bantry

Some to be reinforced
Castledermot
Baltinglass
Dublin Centre
Tralee
Kildare town
Kilcock
Athy

RayM

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Tullamore isn't up to much either. It's the only town where I've witnessed someone taking a shíte in public. A rather large man who was almost certainly a member of the traveling community.

In fairness, that could have just been Brian Cowen.

Mr_Red

Longford

You feel dirty once you step onto longford soil

Mike Guide 69

RayM wrote: »

In fairness, that could have just been Brian Cowen.

That would have been the whole country he was dumping on at the time

Laois_Man

Laois_Man wrote: »

Some not mentioned
Cavan Town
Tullow
Arklow
Bantry

Ah now. Bantry? Really?

porsche959

Thespoofer wrote: »

Dungarvan is a grand town, can't believe someone mentioned it.
Was at a firework display a few months back there and they put on some show over the harbour, absolutely beautiful. They did themselves proud.

John Betjeman write a poem about Dungarvan. On this basis alone, I adjudge that it can't be all that bad.

http://www.jeremybowman.com/wordpress/?p=1067

Rothmans

Laois_Man wrote: »

Some to be reinforced
Castledermot
Baltinglass
Dublin Centre
Tralee
Kildare town
Kilcock
Athy

Jaysus, you'd know you were a Laois man anyway!!

whatswhat

RoscommonTom wrote: »

Iv been there manys the time and I think its a hole ,

Thats a bit rich from someone with "Roscommon" in their name!!!

Laois_Man

Rothmans wrote: »

Jaysus, you'd know you were a Laois man anyway!!

Doesn't make me wrong

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah now. Bantry? Really?

Only travelled the never ending road to it once and that was enough. Found it terribly dull

jaffusmax

Feck me not many mentions of Dundalk! We must be moving up in the world!

Berserker

jaffusmax wrote: »

Feck me not many mentions of Dundalk! We must be moving up in the world!

Dundalk.

Delvin,

Moate

Clonmellon

Belturbet

Ballyjamesduff

Dungloe

RoscommonTom

whatswhat wrote: »

Thats a bit rich from someone with "Roscommon" in their name!!!

and whats wrong with ros, nothing good ever came out of sligo thats for sure

RoscommonTom

RoscommonTom wrote: »

and whats wrong with ros, nothing good ever came out of sligo thats for sure

Yeats?

Rasheed

Mr_Red wrote: »

Longford

You feel dirty once you step onto longford soil

I hate Longford town, it's an desperate knackery hole but there's some lovely spots in Longford county like Ardagh. Say what you like about Protestants, they know how to keep a village lovely!

Barca2014

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

Westport

Interesting - we were going camping there next weekend. Heard it was a great spot.

JillyQ

Edenderry closely followed by mountmellick both would knock the life put of you & shannon town deserves a mention to. The best thing there is the airport out of it.

Barca2014

Barca2014 wrote: »

Interesting - we were going camping there next weekend. Heard it was a great spot.

Its gorgeous! I love visiting Westport, it must have been Stevie Wonder that didnt like it

Dublin Red Devil

Boyle Roscommon

failinis

Seen Buncranna and Letterkenny mentioned, I don't think they are that bad?
I am bias on Buncranna as it's lisfannon beach where I went as a child on summer days.

Quite a lot of Co.Derry towns have a "local town for local people" feel to them, grim places.
Feeny, Clady, Lettershandoney, Tobermore or Tamnaherin.

Iskaheen, Burnfoot and Dunree are rather bleak too.

Agent Coulson

It's starting to look like this thread should be which town isn't the most depressing looking town in Ireland!

sheesh

dobman88 wrote: »

Tralee. Absolute kip and always some trouble there

Actually I feel a certain amount of pride that we made it to the 7th page before getting a mention.

Its not that bad I haven't run into trouble their in years!

willmunny1990

Clonmel.

A lot of scumbags and travellers in Clonmel, has a couple of overly large estates that produce a large quantity of gougers and scumbags, 3 large halting sites and a big problem with travellers on the road with sulkies, kids and all.

Only the other day a fella was in a bad accident on one, horse was fine.

Nothing much in the town center anymore either, most things have gone to the business estates on the outskirts of town, not much to see or do, nightlife is awful.

Pretty **** place now tbf.

burstbuckle

willmunny1990 wrote: »

Clonmel.

horse was fine.

Really glad to hear the horse was fine & I'm not joking

bboybaboy19

Shannon.
An absolute dive where people go to die. That's all the place is good for

Pretzill

For depressing vibe Longford Town tops my list too.

For there could be zombies ... Newtownforbes (also in Longford) and Fermoy Co Cork.

And the Celtic Tigers missing tooth Tyrellstown in Dublin.

jackboy

Kilkee, especially outside the summer season. There is great scenery just outside the town but the town itself is awful. Buildings with broken windows and needing maintainance. Crap pubs and resteraunts. Depressing. The beauty outside the town just makes it stand out like a sore thumb.

cloud493

Tallaght. Its not the worse town I've been too, it just looks depressing.

h2005

Barca2014 wrote: »

Interesting - we were going camping there next weekend. Heard it was a great spot.

It is.

h2005

Nenagh.

Santa Cruz

The town of Naas is an awful place
Portlaoise is just as bad
Longford town would get you down
but **** me Kinnegad

whatswhat

RoscommonTom wrote: »

and whats wrong with ros, nothing good ever came out of sligo thats for sure

I beg to differ when its versus what the good ever came out of Roscommon but I will give you the N4:D

Crann na Beatha

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Santa Cruz

Deleted User wrote: »

Yeats?

Please don't try and tell us you have a bit of culture. Maybe agriculture

F1fan

Longford, Clara, Kilbeggan and the kip that is Mountmellick,

Further south, Urlingford, Newcastle West and Tramore.



Oh, and my fav, Athy.

Meangadh

I think a lot of people here are mixing up "quiet and uneventful" places with being total ****holes.

Having said that, there are definitely towns around the country that need a bit of a lift but that depends an awful lot on volunteers and people often don't want to give up their time.

One town I always found depressing is Roscrea but recently the locals have been trying to improve the town and in particular combat drug abuse in the town- I'm not sure what will come of it but if other towns put in the same effort then maybe some of these "depressing" towns would improve.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Athy is a awful looking town alright,that ugly Tegral factory that greets you especially.