Matters Regarding Limerick 🏙️

[Thomas_Brady]

Bod confirmed above that it was 92. The pools were thronged in the late 80s.

[habanerocat]

@Julio_Geordio

@habanerocat

No way Bod. Those apartments were there across the road from the Ardhu in the 80s. The brother in law has text me 1976 which makes more sense to me.

My sources tell me that the aptly named Waterville estate directly across the road from the Ardhu is where it was. A quick google tells me those houses were built in 1996, although that isn’t conclusive one way or another.

Yea, it was idle for a long time.

[TreatyStones]

@Thomas_Brady

Bod confirmed above that it was 92. The pools were thronged in the late 80s.

Askeaton had a great pool in the 80s/90s albeit outdoors. It’s indoors now.

Foynes had a horrible outdoor pool, filled by the tide, as was Ringmoylan near Pallas.
Copeswood college also had a good indoor pool.

[Julio_Geordio]

@TreatyStones

Foynes had a horrible outdoor pool, filled by the tide, as was Ringmoylan near Pallas

The ground all slimey and we swimming around in the red dust

[Biff_Egan]

Would ye not head a few miles up the road to Kilteery pier?

[Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr]

Is the one in Foynes still there?

[TreatyStones]

@Biff_Egan

Would ye not head a few miles up the road to Kilteery pier?

Sure we didn’t have to go anywhere.
Askeaton had the best pool of them all.
I spent every summer there and still can’t swim.

[Julio_Geordio]

@TreatyStones

@Biff_Egan

Would ye not head a few miles up the road to Kilteery pier?

Sure we didn’t have to go anywhere.
Askeaton had the best pool of them all.
I spent every summer there and still can’t swim.

And the lep

[TreatyStones]

@Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr

Is the one in Foynes still there?

I haven’t heard it mentioned in years. I really doubt it is. It was desperate.
Crabs and seaweed floating in it. It was down beside the Yacht club.

[Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr]

I remember being in it as a child, but that’s the guts of 40 years ago. I don’t remember it as being too bad.

[TreatyStones]

@Elvis_Brandenberg_Kr

I remember being in it as a child, but that’s the guts of 40 years ago. I don’t remember it as being too bad.

Ringmoylan was the worst of them all.
At least Foynes was some way maintained.

[Ashman]

Do people swim at the Lep in Askeaton any more ?? Probably not I assume

[LionelRitchie]

A pal who walked to ard scoil every day passing the pool and said it wasn’t open entire time he was in school and he started sept 92.

He said he can’t recall if it was open during Italia 90.

I need closure here.

[TreatyStones]

@Ashman

Do people swim at the Lep in Askeaton any more ?? Probably not I assume

They do ya, would still be busy if we got a good summer.

[Biff_Egan]

@TreatyStones

Sure we didn’t have to go anywhere.
Askeaton had the best pool of them all.
I spent every summer there and still can’t swim.

I can’t swim properly either, probably due to being threatened with being thrown into a freezing Kilteery Pier.

[LionelRitchie]

Lucky you can manage to even walk having suffered through those threats. Thrown into it nevermind off it?!

[Julio_Geordio]

@Ashman

Do people swim at the Lep in Askeaton any more ?? Probably not I assume

Oh they do ya. There’s a lot more lawlessness allowed there, the townies love it

[habanerocat]

@LionelRitchie

A pal who walked to ard scoil every day passing the pool and said it wasn’t open entire time he was in school and he started sept 92.

He said he can’t recall if it was open during Italia 90.

I need closure here.

My sister in law says it was well closed before she went to England in 1979. If she says it was closed, then it was closed. That’s closure enough for anybody.

[Ashman]

I haven’t been there with near on 30 years . The rivers aren’t as clean as they used to be .

[balbec]

I remember going to Ringmoylan in the 1970’s!