Ireland’s Housing Name Game
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Does anyone here have names they find repetitive, stereo-typical, tired, worn-out, or down-right awful, even weird/bizarre? Post ’em here.
I found this article today: Name Game
Brian O’ Hanlon
Try Kingsbry in Maynooth (and yes, I have spelt it correctly). Originally conceived and permission obtained by a developer called “King”, hence the megalomaniac name of the estate.
Out of these ten, I’d guess 99% of Ireland knows at least one….or lives in one!!!
Willow Park
Grove Park
Pinewood
The Fairways
The Elms
Oak Park
The Copings
Shrewsbury
Ailesbury (Yes there is more than one!!!)
The CopseA shoddy heap of steaming Tudoresque has gone up near me entitled ‘The Loaker’
What in the name of holy mother of God is a loaker?
Image having to say I live at no 3 The Loakers!
If it meant sleeping on the street, I would’nt live there.
There is a lot more out there, in our country, some seriously crazy ones too. Keep ’em coming though, we all do enjoy a good giggle.
There is an estate in south Dublin called Farmleigh. A new development 2 miles away was to be called Fernleigh. After objections they renamed the new estate but used the name Fernleigh in another new development a few miles further away.
If that is as creative they can get with naming houses how can we expect them to be capable of designing creative buildings.
shortening of words with the new universal Irish accent, to hide where you actually came from, was never my problem. 🙂
There are some estates out in Kimmage called after lakes of Ireland, Neagh, Corrib, Melvin etc, etc. Quite simple, but I never guessed until a local person informed me, strange!
Classes in schools too – Irish Saints etc.
Old council estates, always freedom fighters etc.
Originally posted by garethace
Old council estates, always freedom fighters etc.Or in Mullingar, Dalton Park afer Cardinal Dalton.
Council estates in Dundalk – I there’s about 3 Pearse Parks.
I said Loaker earlier on – I meant Loakers – which is even worse.
I looked it up in the dictionary – theres no such word!
I think you will find it is the brand name of a very good quality, hand-made British leather shoe. I wore Loackers for almost 10 years and have excellent healthy feet now to prove it. So in my mind Loakers are great.
Buried deep in the minutes of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Council’s Transportation committee minutes from 2001, you will find a proposal that the (then still to be constructed) LUAS bridge in Dundrum should be named the “Blessed Abbot Marmion Bridge”
That never came to pass, but not to be denied, whoever proposed the name had a second try – and the new bridge constructed to carry the Ballinteer Road over the Dundrum Bypass now has a plaque naming it as “Don Marmion Bridge”
But back on the original thread of common names, there seem to be Grange Roads everywhere.
Gabriel
How about Coolock’s ‘Moonwalk’ streets (presumably built in 1969 or thereabouts) –
Armstrong Walk,
Aldrin Walk,
Tranquility Grove (after The Sea Of).
I’m sure there are more…
in EL ARCHITINOs home city. there are may EL ARCHITINO grand boulevards
do you have these in ireland?
What about naming roads after politicians such as Oscar Traynor Road in Coolock or Tom Bellew Road in Dundalk? Could anyone tell me who Oscar Traynor was? I gather that he was a minister.
Does anyone not yet know that the most-stolen signpost in England is the one in Kent indicating the way to the villages of
Ham
Sandwich
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