Tain Holiday Village

 
 
 
 
 
 
Ally
Founder
Avatar
Gender:
Location: Muckamore, Antrim
Age: 55
Homepage: motorhomecraic.com
Posts: 32599
Registered: 08 / 2011
My Motorhome: Lunar Roadstar 780
Base Vehicle: Fiat 2.8 JTD
Subject:

Tain Holiday Village

 · 
Posted: 22.01.2018  ·  #1
We stayed at Tain in our caravan a few times, I think if must been 20 years ago, I remember the kids being very young. Rumour control had it that it was ruined by Belfast Caravanners coming down at the weekend and fighting, can't even remember who told me that. I spoke to a local at the weekend and he explained that the Irish Government offered money to house immigrants which the owner accepted and it became a private type of residence for them, no more tourists. It then went from bad to worse and eventually closed.

It's a sad sight to see, part of it would make a great Aire, the services are still in place. But I doubt that would ever happen.




mad max
Eat's Sleep's craic
Avatar
Gender:
Location: Co Galway
Age: 98
Posts: 5550
Registered: 04 / 2013
My Motorhome:
Base Vehicle:
Subject:

Re: Tain Holiday Village

 · 
Posted: 22.01.2018  ·  #2
Pity to see it like that,
But if there was trouble it was bound to happen


...
 
Avatar
 
Subject:

Re: Tain Holiday Village

 · 
Posted: 22.01.2018  ·  #3
We walked past it the last time we were in carlingford. It is crazy to see all the pitches overgrown.


kevinmoore
Craic Addict
Avatar
Gender:
Location: Meath
Age: 66
Posts: 398
Registered: 04 / 2016
My Motorhome: Benimar 494 Tessoro
Base Vehicle: Ford Transit
Subject:

Re: Tain Holiday Village

 · 
Posted: 22.01.2018  ·  #4
It’s an awful shame OK. We passed it the last time we were there walking, and like you Ally, we thought it would make a great aire.


thepilote
Love's the Craic
Avatar
Gender: n/a
Age: 67
Posts: 164
Registered: 10 / 2014
My Motorhome: PILOTE REFERENCE
Base Vehicle: DUCATO
Subject:

Re: Tain Holiday Village

 · 
Posted: 22.01.2018  ·  #5
Exact same thing happened in mosney Co meath. Had some great holidays there when the kids were young.


Thorn123
Eat's Sleep's craic
Avatar
Gender:
Location: Laois
Age: 48
Posts: 2589
Registered: 07 / 2016
My Motorhome: Chasson flash 03
Base Vehicle: Ford transit 2.2
Subject:

Re: Tain Holiday Village

 · 
Posted: 22.01.2018  ·  #6
Interesting. We passed by there about a year and a half ago and we couldn't figure the place out. Our conclusion was that it was a 1970 hotel built with the leprechaun effect and ran by Basil Faulty. I would imagine that the demolishing cost of the building would cost more than a green field site.


Ruairi og
Craic'er
Avatar
Gender: n/a
Location: Louth
Age: 47
Posts: 81
Registered: 09 / 2015
My Motorhome: converted transit high roof
Base Vehicle:
Subject:

Re: Tain Holiday Village

 · 
Posted: 23.01.2018  ·  #7
It was St Micheal's boarding school before it was turned into the holiday village. Such as shame. would be nice as an aire. some nice coastline the other side of the building. you can walk it when the tide is out.


TAYLOR.
Eat's Sleep's craic
Avatar
Gender: n/a
Location: Galway
Homepage: kencarrolladaptati…
Posts: 3093
Registered: 12 / 2012
My Motorhome:
Base Vehicle:
Subject:

Re: Tain Holiday Village

 · 
Posted: 23.01.2018  ·  #8
Was there many many years ago with a caravan and also Mosney.

Ken


Selected quotes for multi-quoting:   0

Registered users in this topic

Currently no registered users in this section

The statistic shows who was online during the last 5 minutes. Updated every 90 seconds.