Most Depressing Towns & Villages in Ireland

brokenbad · 21-06-2023 12:18pm #1

Here's my contribution from my own County of Offaly:

Edenderry - Had the misfortune of driving through it once. The outskirts looks like a nuclear wasteland. An absolute dive.
Clara - a kip. Full of derelict industrial buildings. Nothing in it only takeaways, barbershops and chemists.
Cloghan - a decrepit wasteland with the longest wait time ever at any set of traffic lights.
Kilcormac - Has a depressing aura about out - the town itself looks like its still stuck in the 80's.
Ferbane - derelict shopfronts and closed down pubs add a depressing feel to the place - similar to Kilcormac.

Interested in other people's thoughts on their own county.....

Grayson · 21-06-2023 12:42pm

Tulsk. Everytime I travel through it I think "Thank god I don't live here".

It could actually be a lovely place to live but it's so depressing to drive through.

brokenbad · 21-06-2023 1:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120744071#Comment_120744071

Agreed. Have passed through it a few times en-route to Sligo - gives the impression of some backwater mid western American town with tumbleweed blowing across the streets.....

adgib · 21-06-2023 1:20pm

Agree on Edenderry,kip

Quitelife · 21-06-2023 1:35pm

Many rural towns in Limerick are dangerous & lawless ran by crime groups which makes them depressing for the law abiding.

Askeaton

Abbeyfeale

Rathkeale

Kilmallock

Newcastle West

All these towns have something in common but your not allowed mention it just let them all get worse year on year .

zell12 · 21-06-2023 1:36pm

Carrigstown in Dublin

Allinall · 21-06-2023 1:37pm

Termonfeckin.

I spent a week there one night.

tesla_newbie · 21-06-2023 1:43pm

Borris o Kane

ballinasloe

boyle

Granard

monastarevin

Larbre34 · 21-06-2023 1:44pm

It's not a person, its not some Russian immigrant called Boris O'Kane.

21-06-2023 1:47pm

Killimor, Galway.

McGrath5 · 21-06-2023 1:53pm

Longford town - had the misfortune to visit it a few years back, fancied a bit of lunch, nothing but takeaways, pubs & bookies open.

brokenbad · 21-06-2023 2:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120744446#Comment_120744446

Boyle - 100% a shithole stuck in a 1970's time warp.

brokenbad · 21-06-2023 2:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120744525#Comment_120744525

Throw Edgeworthstown, Ballymahon and Keenagh into the mix there also....

artanevilla · 21-06-2023 2:17pm

There will be some point if this thread goes on long enough where every town in Ireland is mentioned. But the correct answer is Shannon.

Aurelian · 21-06-2023 2:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120744071#Comment_120744071

To me its always just a staggered cross roads on the way to Sligo. I think I'd have to take a left to venture into the actual village, which I've never done.

brokenbad · 21-06-2023 2:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120744410#Comment_120744410

What a kip - only has one pub "McCoys" and is full of moaners from what i've heard.......

I see sheep · 21-06-2023 2:28pm

Wasn't there one of these threads recently?

Dublin Town for me

hayrabit · 21-06-2023 2:30pm

@Longford - throw scumbag pikey cúnts into the mix an' all :mad:

could live with the 'depressing' aspect - getting accosted regular another thing entirely

less folks going to that town on account of the feral savages - adds to the depressing aspect, tbs

#anyonewhatknowstownwon'tdisagree

#notallTravelers - goes without saying

callaway92 · 21-06-2023 2:30pm

Tipperary Town or Charleville

Similar in a sense of it’s never ever quick to get through, the road is always in a state itself, and it’s full of closed down shops etc

BrianD3 · 21-06-2023 2:33pm

Towns that look like they have barely changed since the 1950s, gloomy 3 storey buildings towering over a main street with cars abandoned everywhere or, alternatively very few cars as there is no life in the place.

Granard

Ballybay

Clones

Bailieborough

Roscommon town

Manorhamilton

Ballintra (Donegal)

DownByTheGarden · 21-06-2023 2:41pm

Longford Town - Scary horrible place

Edgeworthstown - Just a dump of a town

Dublin City Center is in with a shot at the title too

lmk123 · 21-06-2023 2:52pm

Newmarket & Buttevant Co. Cork. You’d be in tears going through them.

Lionel Fusco · 21-06-2023 2:59pm

Athy

Daingean

yagan · 21-06-2023 2:59pm

I've lived in a few of the towns mentioned but I have to say the most depressing place in Ireland is Dublin, and I've lived in some of the supposedly nice parts. It's just a congested time sump that's best viewed while passing on the M50. At least with the smaller towns there's somewhere interesting a short drive away.

Sorolla · 21-06-2023 3:04pm

Ballyhaunis (co Mayo)

Strokestown (co Roscommon)

Ballinlough (co Roscommon)

21-06-2023 3:10pm

Ardee. Useless f**king place that's always clogged up with traffic.

Swaine · 21-06-2023 3:14pm

Can't believe Portarlington hasn't been mentioned yet. Mountmellick in Laois another utter scum hole.

The roads around Edenderry are something you'd see in deepest Mongolia.

Jack Daw · 21-06-2023 3:19pm

Portarlington: Really dragged out town seems to be no end to it and no centre to it.

Edenderry: Just one street that is about 5 miles long, goes on forever, the whole town square is depressing , the old cinema still empty, tesco still empty although at least they knocked the building down now.

Derrinturn: Mainly for the smell from the mushroom factory.

Coill Dubh: If it even counts as a town or village, seems stuck in a 1950's time warp, like it's cut off from the rest of civilization.

BattleCorp · 21-06-2023 3:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120744749#Comment_120744749

I got a batter burger in a chipper in Boyle once that had cheese as well as the burger inside the batter. It was feckin gorgeous so for that I'll absolve them from their sins.

Oh wait, that chipper was in Moate, not Boyle. Absolution cancelled.

21-06-2023 3:26pm

Westport - Price of food and drink would depress you.

chosen1 · 21-06-2023 3:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120744525#Comment_120744525

I've seen similar comments before about Longford, and fair enough there is more than its own share of problems about, especially from a certain group within the town, but I can't fathom the food comment.

Screenshotting a simple Google maps search of cafes in the town centre and this is your result. One of the options showing below is a fast food joint, but saying there's no options for lunch is absurd.

Most Depressing Towns & Villages in Ireland

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