Talk:Ashbourne, County Meath
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[edit] When did the name change happen?
Does anybody know when was the English name Ashbourne put on Cill Dhéagláin? Was it a 'thank you' for the passing of the Ashbourne Land Act? Why Ashbourne? El Gringo 23:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
I think it has somethig to do with the landlord who founded Ashbourne being called Fredrick Bourne Sgt baker 18:23, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Excellent, Sgt. I never heard that before. That name allowed me to Google and I got this http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/ashbourne/overview.html very informative history about Frederick Bourne. Thanks again! El Gringo 02:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
So you could say that our town has a 'Bourne' identity... Terrible, I know! --Nerroth 14:42, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tirades about the council
Fair play to whoever fixed up the vitriol about planning etc. in Ashbourne. I wrote a good bit of what's there now and while I'd love to launch into a rant about the lack of a Dublin Bus service in Ashbourne, I kept schtum (although it might come through a bit in the article all the same!).
Anyone know of other retail stores coming to Ash soon? I heard M&S were looking at one of the large empty units across from Sasha, as were Penneys.
[edit] Estates?
Hi!
I noticed that there isn't much of a description of Ashbourone's layout and its estates, though I don't spend much time here (having to commute all the time!) so could anyone help out with this part?
We've been in Asbourne since 1989, and I hardly recognise it anymore... --Nerroth 14:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Going into estate description
Dividing the town into "estates" for descriptive purposes would need a lot more detail than four points; Ashbourne is fairly spread out and you'd be here all day trying to describe the various estates as each one is different.
I could give a little background about Garden City but others would need to go into similar detail about other parts of the town before you could do a whole section on it.
Garden City was built betwee the early to mid 70's, with a mixture of housing types from flat-roofed terraces with no driveways to traditional semi-d's and detached houses (many built by different developers on the same road) right up to Tara Lawns and Broadmeadow Green with Canadian-designed open-plan houses (balconies in the master bedroom looking out over the living room). All this was built on Ned Nulty's land, who died in the mid 90's and whose home is still in the centre of Ashbourne at the new bridge before O'Brien's off licence.
Crestwood wasn't included in Garden City as it was built in the early 80's but is often included with the rest these days. Garden City's shops were built just after the surrounding houses but weren't occupied for a number of years (the only shop was O'Sullivan's, across from the church). Victory Value opened a supermarket in the early 80's which then became a Centra, then a SuperValu and then back to a Centra. It remained the only group of shops in Ashbourne separate from the centre of town until Daybreak opened at John's Wood in 2005.
