Mob79
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Its green fields on a roundabout with a few bungalows around, sligo’s over a large hill, doubt you could see sligo from the top floor or the top floor from sligo. Saw a picture of it a while back, like a skinny version of the one in limerick, horrid business park material.
I hate saying this but when you see some of the grossly ignorant destruction of the countryside by its residents i feel the need for someone to please interfere (and yes i know its not often balanced interfering, but is anyone else objecting?). It’s just unfortunate it has to come from Dublin further fueling such a passionate divide i can’t really understand.
Ya, lets throw up a tudor style housing estate on the burren and show them interfering jackeens. God sake Fin, grow up, im originally from as rural a community as you can get and its quite glaringly obvious we’re destroying the place, take your blinkers off!
With regard to “Bungalow Bliss on the built environment of rural (particularly west coast) Ireland.” I think there is actually quite a difference between housing on the east and west coast (or ratrher the difference their environments should inspire in their design) . While in alot of cases extremely inappropriate, something about the style of older bungalows seem to suit the environment of the west coast more than in the east. If you travel around Achill island you’ll see all forms of one off houses from some quite odd early land commision house, earlier white washed cottages through to 70s bungalows to modern housing. Most have a style that seem somewhat native to the place through their colours, decoration, the layout and style of sheds and outhouses. A certain kind of seaside or mediteranian style seems to be the natural style for such areas. Then you come across the modern mansions, large and dark, displaying none of the local playfulness, but instead twee design, victorian street lamps, dark stone, wooden trimmings on the gutters more fitting to emmerdale than Achill.
Tacky and all as they were, bungalows from the 60s-90s seem so much more cheerful, colourful and modest than this current wave of mansions. Everything now just seems so big, immodest, dark stone covered and dull. They all remind me of a cheap version of a dull provincial railway station on a wet day. Im glad i grew up in a bungalow with ridiculous spanish arches.
