Irish places with ironic names??

BiggJim

I'll go first.. Jobstown

Leg End Reject

Dolphins Barn.

French Toast

Hollywood, Wicklah.

An Ri rua

I always thought it amusing that a little townland beside the fastest stretch of road in Ireland at one time, Ginnybawn Hill outside Tyrrellspass, is called....


Torque....

I Was VB

Cock island.

An Ri rua

I suppose the King of em all.....

Prosperous.

Shudder....

BiggJim

An Ri rua wrote: »

I suppose the King of em all.....

Prosperous.

Shudder....

Is it disgusting too?

An Ri rua

I Was VB wrote: »

Cock island.

Ironic, not iconic...

Leg End Reject

Muff

snowstorm445

Inch in Kerry, the beach is 3 miles long...

An Ri rua

BiggJim wrote: »

Is it disgusting too?

Only a spin will cure your thirst for knowledge.

Badly Drunk Boy

An Ri rua wrote: »

I suppose the King of em all.....

Prosperous.

Shudder....

When you say its name, you have to elongate the first vowel. Praawwwwwwsperous.

fryup

Hack-Balls-Cross

never heard of anyone gettin their balls hacked there,

but then again its near bandit country, so who knows

keano_afc

Louth.

They're usually pretty quiet people. Well, the ones that dont live in Dundalk.

Gregor Samsa

Hospital, Limerick. Doesn't have one.

Fairview, Dublin. No view at all.

Cork: keeps flooding, doesn't float.

I worked in an office in "Central Park" business park in Sandyford.

It was neither Central, nor a Park.

flazio

Birr. Been there in the middle of a heatwave.
Portlaoise. Inland town with no docking port or distillery.

landofthetree

Mayobridge.

It's in Down.

afro man

Some crackers in Wexford

Bastardstown,
Fannystown

afro man

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Muff

A local area near Muff called Grainne’s Gap

RandRuns

Limerick Junction

Gregor Samsa

Actually, there's one that was deliberately given an ironic name.

The tiny village of Boston in north Co. Clare was so named in ironic reference to the metropolis of Boston in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston,_County_Clare

Gregor Samsa

I Was VB wrote: »

Cock island.

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Muff

fryup wrote: »

Hack-Balls-Cross

afro man wrote: »

Bastardstown,
Fannystown

But none of these are ironic.

In fact, it's one of the ironies of any thread that calls for ironic examples that lots of people will post stuff that is not ironic at all.

It's like raaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnn, on your wedding daaaaaaaaay! etc.

sligojoek

Curry, Co Sligo.

Not a Chinese or Indian restaurant in sight.

retalivity

sligojoek wrote: »

Curry, Co Sligo.

Not a Chinese or Indian restaurant in sight.

Tubbercurry does though. Sells curry in tubs as well.

sligojoek

retalivity wrote: »

Tubbercurry does though. Sells curry in tubs as well.

Bag of chips with a tub o' curry sauce.

Down is UP North

Kill, County Kildare.

You go on one murder spree !!!!

cdeb

Skyrimaddict wrote: »

Kill, County Kildare.

You go on one murder spree !!!!

Damnit - was just about to nominate Kill Lane for the exact same reason.

I grew up within five minutes of South Park, Abbey Road and Springfield (Park), and never once saw any famous cartoon characters or musicians. Abbey Road doesn't even have a zebra crossing.

EmmetSpiceland

There’s a ‘Mountain View Road’ in Ranelagh. Not sure if it’s “ironic” or just false advertising.

Not Ironic but funny,


Hulk Street in Clifden, Galway- Its a tiny puny street

Nenagh, but it's very quiet

dennyire

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

There’s a ‘Mountain View Road’ in Ranelagh. Not sure if it’s “ironic” or just false advertising.

It was there before they built up Clonskegh, Goatstown, Dundrum Sandyford etc ...so probably had a mountain view

dennyire

Deleted User wrote: »

Nenagh, but it's very quiet

Except for the ambulance factory

KaneToad

Bray.

Not a donkey to be seen...

Ger Roe

afro man wrote: »

A local area near Muff called Grainne’s Gap

Also a place called Muff Crescent in Nobber, co meath.

murpho999

There seems to be Alanis Morissette levels of misunderstanding of the word 'ironic' in this thread

Zaney

Portlaoise and Portarlington - they are in the midlands, nearest port is hundreds of miles away

Moneygall

Swords (stand to be corrected as I don’t know the area well enough to understand the level of knife crime)

Blacklion - now that’s something I want to see

Zaney

Portlaoise and Portarlington - they are in the midlands, nearest port is hundreds of miles away

Moneygall

Swords (stand to be corrected as I don’t know the area well enough to understand the level of knife crime)

Blacklion - now that’s something I want to see

murpho999

murpho999 wrote: »

There seems to Alanis Morissette levels of misunderstanding of the word 'ironic' in this thread

Isn't it ironic?

Uncle Pierre

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

But none of these are ironic.

In fact, it's one of the ironies of any thread that calls for ironic examples that lots of people will post stuff that is not ironic at all.

It's like raaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnn, on your wedding daaaaaaaaay! etc.

Bastardstown is ironic in that people there are actually fairly sound.

I'm saying nothing about Fannystown.

By the same token, I'll say nothing about Lousybush in Kilkenny either. I don't have enough experience with the womenfolk there to be able to judge one way or the other.

cdeb

Leopardstown is an obvious one actually. No leopards at all. The Irish name gives it away - Baile na Lobhar - Town of the lepers. It was the site of a lepers' hospital in the middle ages.

dennyire

Stillorgan....Mickey Marbh

Miley Byrne

Zaney wrote: »

Portlaoise and Portarlington - they are in the midlands, nearest port is hundreds of miles away

Moneygall

Swords (stand to be corrected as I don’t know the area well enough to understand the level of knife crime)

Blacklion - now that’s something I want to see

Always wondered if this was a play on words and it should have been BlackLine due to the border there and the black border line running through it on a map, then again I presume the town was named long before partition so I haven't a clue really:pac:

Crocodile Booze

Glasthule

There is not a sign of a transparent penis there.

randd1

Mullinavat, Kilkenny - No vat to be seen, so there's nothing to mull in it.

Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary - The feckin rock is in the Suir, no on it.

Ballycocksoost (pronounced Bally Cock Suas), Kilkenny - No obvious erections on view.

Waterford - There's no ford there.

Limerick - Nothing funny about the place at all.

Mayo - They prefer butter.

doublejobbing 2

Buttercup, Snowdrop and Primrose avenue/ drive etc in Darndale.

Conjures up an image of somewhere nice for a picnic and a brisk walk on a long summer's evening, rather than a place teeming with gormless junkies, ltheir sons tearing about on scramblers, and 15 year olds driving the bollix out of an old car they bought on Facebook for 50 quid.

Clones - and not another place like it

Mimon

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

There’s a ‘Mountain View Road’ in Ranelagh. Not sure if it’s “ironic” or just false advertising.

Maybe had a mountain view when it was originally built? Dublin originally wasn't very big.

Mimon

Pilltown - sounds like it should be a mecca for ravers, never been there but presume it's not.

Amirani

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Fairview, Dublin. No view at all.

It used to though, back when Fairview was directly on the coast. Hence "Fairview Strand" (same applies to North Strand).