Un-natural counties

[Feckitt]

I always thought that Armagh was quite an unnatural county with the North and South of the county having little interaction with each other except through football.

However the claim for most unnatural must go to Leitrim.  It is impossible to drive from North Leitrim to South Leitrim without going into Roscommon or Cavan!  Any others?

[Orior]

Antrim: Hurling in the north, football in the south, Ballymena in the middle providing the buffer.

Down: Heavy GAA people. All the GAA seems to have gravitated to the bottom. You'll never see many hurls in Bangor Marina.

Dublin: Its so big they want to split it in two (Duuuuhhhhhhh......its so big because its doubling)

Tipp: Partitionists appear to have lost this battle, except for the dissidents that are hiding out in the vehicle licensing

[Canalman]

Definitely Wicklow. East and West of the county divided by a massive mountain range and only 2 or 3 roads between the two. Massive cultural divide also.

[lawnseed]

any county that can spawn enda kenny is in big diffs

[ONeill]

Tyrone. West Tyrone is full of protestants or catholics who took the soup only to return to the faith but are still turncoats. The East has poor downtrodden taigs who were given the wet useless land full of midges the Brits didn't want 400 years ago.

[mayogodhelpus@gmail.com]

I always thought that Armagh was quite an unnatural county with the North and South of the county having little interaction with each other except through football.

However the claim for most unnatural must go to Leitrim.  It is impossible to drive from North Leitrim to South Leitrim without going into Roscommon or Cavan!  Any others?

Historically part of Leitrim was associated with Connacht or the Connacht Kingdoms, while the other half with the Ulster Kingdoms. Similarly Cavan also traditionaly was split between the Connacht Kindoms and the Ulster ones, part of Fermanagh was once in Connacht.

[ziggysego]

Tyrone. West Tyrone is full of protestants or catholics who took the soup only to return to the faith but are still turncoats. The East has poor downtrodden taigs who were given the wet useless land full of midges the Brits didn't want 400 years ago.

Not a bean wrong with the West, we had to fend for ourselves. You Easties were the un-natural ones, I hear there's very few branches on the Ardboe family tree.

[ONeill]

Oh come on. Frank McGuigan v Patsy Kerlin. Dennis Taylor v Sion Mills Cricket team. Plunkett Donaghy's ma v Hugo.

[Minder]

Tyrone. West Tyrone is full of protestants or catholics who took the soup only to return to the faith but are still turncoats. The East has poor downtrodden taigs who were given the wet useless land full of midges the Brits didn't want 400 years ago.

Not a bean wrong with the West, we had to fend for ourselves. You Easties were the un-natural ones, I hear there's very few branches on the Ardboe family tree.

Its a stump.

[armaghniac]

I always thought that Armagh was quite an unnatural county with the North and South of the county having little interaction with each other except through football.

South Armagh, between the Pale and the Plantation.

[Farrandeelin]

Galway too. Big Lough Corrib separating Connemara from North and East Galway.

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Galway too. Big Lough Corrib separating Connemara from North and East Galway.

Well what is know as Connemara, but not actually. Not all West of the Corrib is Connemara.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Galway too. Big Lough Corrib separating Connemara from North and East Galway.

Well what is know as Connemara, but not actually. Not all West of the Corrib is Connemara.

There is no real set border to Connemara so it's boundaries are fairly arbitrary. This is the map on wikipedia purporting to loosely represent the area of Connemara. Going by that Connemara only begins along the coast at around Inverin and inland at around Oughterard but I know the official sign saying Welcome to Connemara is about 10 minutes outside Galway city in Furbo. That map would also mean Spiddal for example isn't in Connemara even though most locals would consider Spiddal to be in Connemara.

[Aerlik]

part of Fermanagh was once in Connacht.

It should go back...more chance of winning a Connaught championship than EVER winning an Ulster championship, 

[southdown]

Huge split in Down with the ards peninsula