Not sure all of them Donegal ones will be standing for the next 5 years
Fuck it, I was going to rebuild my house with the same design but now I’ve discovered I could have 10 bedrooms! Go big or go to Galway it seems.
I like them
From my own observations I’d say limerick would be up there too, I’m from Cork and whenever I drive around limerick country I’m struck by just how many more very large houses they have all over the place.
From rural Galway and not surprised. There’s a road near me with mcmansion after mcmansion for about a mile. It’s such an awful way of developing imo. You end up with an area that’s really overbuilt with no “nature” for that big stretch, and yet no shops or services either, and such a low population density.
Some of the houses are so ugly too. And a lot of them are way too big for the occupants – i have a friend who moved out of Dublin and bought a 6-bed house in the middle of nowhere – no kids and no plan to have more than 1 or 2 ever. Just wants the space for “entertaining”.
For anyone interested in gaudy Celtic Tiger era architecture and interior design, have a look at Ugly Irish Houses.
Anecdotally, Cavan appears to be full of them as well.
Besides all the sprawl/low density/environmental issues. The sheer tackiness of every single one of them like they’re just awful to look at. Not a single thought given to symmetry or proportion.
What a shocker. No one could have guessed that two large rural counties known for their natural beauty would have the highest number of large dispersed one-off houses in rural areas /s
I feel like being a one off and the number of bedrooms don’t dictate if a house is a McMansion. A McMansion is a one off house with features that go against normal design philosophy, with features added for show, rather than function. So like having a spackle on the front of the house or a weird out of place battlement or arrowslit, like you are expecting the Normans to storm it.
A McMansion is ugly, not just a one off big house.
Someone lives in a nice house, whoopeedoo.
You fuckers won’t be happy until we’re all in state assigned Banlieues.
Talk about tall poppy syndrome.
r/McMansionHell for more examples
We really need to get people back to living *in* our towns and cities
these ugly one-off houses that are built without architects being involved (I assume) are common to all regions of rural ireland. they are a blight, but you have to see the funny side.
It is a bit sad though, because when you go the the Scottish Highlands you can drive for hours without seeing a house and it is awesome.
Obviously never visited Vico road
I thought they were called “Muck Mansions”, not “McMansions”.
Do people not realise that these areas are rural af, so its way cheaper to build here? A 4 bed house + large garden in a great area near us sold a couple weeks ago for a bit over 300k
Muck mansions
To go with the 2 suv’s, kids, golden retriever, pony at the local stable
*(not forgetting private swimming and music lessons)*
Most of them on Irish homes on Instagram probably. Can’t beat that 90’s red carpet, green upholstery and pinewood decor.
Like barracks most of them.
Vincent Kennedy McMansion!
I know we have a housing crisis but this just seems like ragging on successful people tbh
They’re dropping in donegal… literally
They won’t allow someone to have a bike rack in their front garden without permission, but they grant it for these fuck ugly eyesores.
Back when I worked for directory inquiries there was a question I sometimes asked people – what county are they or the business they’re looking for is in, as often they’d mention a town or village I’d never heard of before. Two counties stood apart from the rest in how they answered – Dublin and Donegal.
There’d be a pause on the other end of the line as they processed the question. What… *county*? What kind of question was that? Everyone in other counties answered immediately, but for people in Dublin and Donegal, there was always that pause.
You can understand Dublin, because it’s got such a massive population compare to everywhere else and there is some truth in stereotypes – and everyone knows the stereotype of Dublin people considering all of civilisation to be in Dublin and everywhere else to be the back end of nowhere.
But Donegal? That always threw me. It’s one of the more remote counties in the country – if any of them could be called anything remotely near remote – being tucked away up there bordering only Leitrim, Northern Ireland and the Atlantic ocean. Why were people from Donegal as stymied by that question in the same way as people from Dublin?
Eyeing this headline has me thinking that maybe I was mostly getting McMansion people on the line. Whatever the reason, I will admit I didn’t need to ask that question. Their area code showed on my screen whenever they dialled. But I *loved* to ask it of people from Dublin and Donegal.
That momentary silence as they considered the necessity of that question gave me life.
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Not sure all of them Donegal ones will be standing for the next 5 years
Fuck it, I was going to rebuild my house with the same design but now I’ve discovered I could have 10 bedrooms! Go big or go to Galway it seems.
I like them
From my own observations I’d say limerick would be up there too, I’m from Cork and whenever I drive around limerick country I’m struck by just how many more very large houses they have all over the place.
From rural Galway and not surprised. There’s a road near me with mcmansion after mcmansion for about a mile. It’s such an awful way of developing imo. You end up with an area that’s really overbuilt with no “nature” for that big stretch, and yet no shops or services either, and such a low population density.
Some of the houses are so ugly too. And a lot of them are way too big for the occupants – i have a friend who moved out of Dublin and bought a 6-bed house in the middle of nowhere – no kids and no plan to have more than 1 or 2 ever. Just wants the space for “entertaining”.
For anyone interested in gaudy Celtic Tiger era architecture and interior design, have a look at Ugly Irish Houses.
https://instagram.com/uglyirishhouses?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Anecdotally, Cavan appears to be full of them as well.
Besides all the sprawl/low density/environmental issues. The sheer tackiness of every single one of them like they’re just awful to look at. Not a single thought given to symmetry or proportion.
What a shocker. No one could have guessed that two large rural counties known for their natural beauty would have the highest number of large dispersed one-off houses in rural areas /s
I feel like being a one off and the number of bedrooms don’t dictate if a house is a McMansion. A McMansion is a one off house with features that go against normal design philosophy, with features added for show, rather than function. So like having a spackle on the front of the house or a weird out of place battlement or arrowslit, like you are expecting the Normans to storm it.
A McMansion is ugly, not just a one off big house.
Someone lives in a nice house, whoopeedoo.
You fuckers won’t be happy until we’re all in state assigned Banlieues.
Talk about tall poppy syndrome.
r/McMansionHell for more examples
We really need to get people back to living *in* our towns and cities
these ugly one-off houses that are built without architects being involved (I assume) are common to all regions of rural ireland. they are a blight, but you have to see the funny side.
It is a bit sad though, because when you go the the Scottish Highlands you can drive for hours without seeing a house and it is awesome.
Obviously never visited Vico road
I thought they were called “Muck Mansions”, not “McMansions”.
Do people not realise that these areas are rural af, so its way cheaper to build here? A 4 bed house + large garden in a great area near us sold a couple weeks ago for a bit over 300k
Muck mansions
To go with the 2 suv’s, kids, golden retriever, pony at the local stable
*(not forgetting private swimming and music lessons)*
Most of them on Irish homes on Instagram probably. Can’t beat that 90’s red carpet, green upholstery and pinewood decor.
Like barracks most of them.
Vincent Kennedy McMansion!
I know we have a housing crisis but this just seems like ragging on successful people tbh
They’re dropping in donegal… literally
They won’t allow someone to have a bike rack in their front garden without permission, but they grant it for these fuck ugly eyesores.
Back when I worked for directory inquiries there was a question I sometimes asked people – what county are they or the business they’re looking for is in, as often they’d mention a town or village I’d never heard of before. Two counties stood apart from the rest in how they answered – Dublin and Donegal.
There’d be a pause on the other end of the line as they processed the question. What… *county*? What kind of question was that? Everyone in other counties answered immediately, but for people in Dublin and Donegal, there was always that pause.
You can understand Dublin, because it’s got such a massive population compare to everywhere else and there is some truth in stereotypes – and everyone knows the stereotype of Dublin people considering all of civilisation to be in Dublin and everywhere else to be the back end of nowhere.
But Donegal? That always threw me. It’s one of the more remote counties in the country – if any of them could be called anything remotely near remote – being tucked away up there bordering only Leitrim, Northern Ireland and the Atlantic ocean. Why were people from Donegal as stymied by that question in the same way as people from Dublin?
Eyeing this headline has me thinking that maybe I was mostly getting McMansion people on the line. Whatever the reason, I will admit I didn’t need to ask that question. Their area code showed on my screen whenever they dialled. But I *loved* to ask it of people from Dublin and Donegal.
That momentary silence as they considered the necessity of that question gave me life.