I’ve heard lads call Donabate and Swords the countryside before…

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  1. A guy I know from abroad who lives in Dublin referred to Limerick city as “the countryside” the other day to me.

    Probably just a translation error (his English is usually really good) but I still thought it was funny.

  2. North County dublin..these places would have been the country side years ago very built up now especially swords

  3. When I was in UCD people I knew in Trinity called it the countryside. There’s no rearin’ on em

  4. Swords is a fairly large town but there’s a huge amount of farm land around donabate….I would say borderline countryside.

    Where do you fall on skerries/rush?

  5. When I went to college many moons ago, I had to explain to a South Dublin girl where the county I lived in was.

    I was from Meath.

  6. There’s plenty of prime farmland in North County Dublin, plenty of young lads driving massive tractors on the roads too.

  7. I was on the bus to my da’s house, going through Rush, and heard a pair of girls ahead of me going “I’ve never been this far out into the country before” Never wanted to correct a stranger so bad in my life

  8. Out towards Ballyboughal and the Naul it’s as countryside as it gets. Even lusk, rush, skerries and balbrigan outside of the the towns would definitely be considered countryside swords on the other hand is not the countryside.

  9. Yes haha I have family who refer to Blanch as the countryside, and even would consider Finglas “miles away”

  10. The north county has rural areas. Swords is not rural, Donabate itself isnt rural but the area around it can be. Rush, Skerries, Portrane, Lusk, parts of St. Margrets and Cloghran too could all easily be considered rural areas.

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