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Which of Ireland’s cities or towns is the most, architectually, beautiful?
I think Sligo looks nice, especially the Town Hall.Boyler this is where you ask for a poll, then when the votes are counted you know.
Sligo isn’t a bad place to start personally I would favour Kilkenny or Clonmel as towns of a similar size
Only the boss can create polls but I’m sure if you ask nicely he would consider it.
Re Clonmel there is surprisingly nothing for County Tipp in the Buildings of Ireland section which can be found under the drop down ‘Countries’ (top left toll bar) under the section ‘Buildings of Ireland’
Clonmel,for sure.
College Green in Dublin has the best collection of beautiful architecture in Ireland. You have the facades of Trinity College, old Parliament Building( is the Bank of Ireland now ) and several banks.
Alas not all the banks on College Green are the prettiest in the world…
Dundalk is a beautiful town, easily has one of the finest collections of Georgian-Victorian transitional architecture in Ireland.
The people unfortunately have a bad reputation but their town is magnificent.Yes, the delightful Dearey’s is just one – who’s future use is uncertain as a result of a recent sale.
These two late Georgians are other favourites:
Of course the town’s Pro-Cathedral does without saying – modelled on King’s College Chapel, on which there’s a good article in the UK forum at the minute:
The town lacks decent contemporary architecture unfortunately – most built at the minute is happy-clappy stuff, not least the woeful new Louth CC HQ.
Saying that, the new courthouse extension by Brian O’Halloran Associates works very well (low granite walls and ramps etc aside)The cathedrals in Cork (St. Finbar’s) and Cobh (?) look nicer than Dundalk’s Pro-Cathedral, in my opinion.
@Boyler wrote:
Could you do it for me? I don’t know how.
Does anyone have pictures of Clonmel?I’ll see what I can do about getting a few pictures of Clonmel.
Abbeyleix, Co Laois is an exceptionally beautiful town.
Adare, Co Limerick is often considered Ireland’s prettiest in the guide books.Don’t forget Westport…
I’d agree with you Boyler that there are more beautiful cathedrals and churches than Dundalk, not least St Finn Barre’s – how could you compete with that?
But Dundalk is more iconic that beautiful, perhaps it would be considered more elegant without the bell-tower, added in c1906 (athough originally planned).
Saying that, it could be argued that its interior is particularly beautiful – much more so than the dull rendered lemon walls one’s usually greeted with in even the most externally elaborate Irish churches.
It has an exquisite almost Regency-gothic interior from the 1840s that is really magnificent.New Ross is probably my favourite Irish town. It has an amazing urban coherence; the quay with its mix of shop-houses and grain stores, and the four streets behind that centred on the town hall. And the picturesque old shopfronts running up the incredibly steep hill of Mary Street.
But like so many, it’s undervalued and overrun with traffic, and it’s suffering non-stop loss of architectural character (the usual PVC-ing etc.). Tragic to see this in such a beautiful place.
I think it’s just seen as somewhere on the way to Waterford from Wexford.
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