County Border Towns

[Goats Do Shave]

Folks,

I'm going to be driving round the country later in the year, going to try & give every county a touch. To make it a little easier on myself, I'm calling on your knowledge - can you post up a few county border towns around the country, to help me put my route together!

Cheers in advance guys! 

[AZOffaly]

Potarlington straddles Laois and Offaly. Roscrea straddles Offaly and Tipperary, well just outside it, Athlone has Roscommon and Westmeath, Shannonbridge is Roscommon and Offaly, Banagher is Galway and Offaly, Carbury/Edenderry is Offaly and Kildare, The Offaly Westmeath border runs along the north side of Offaly, and towns like Rochfortbridge, Rhode, Tyrellspass, Kilbeggan, Moate, would all be more or less border towns. There's also the Offaly Meath border near Edenderry as well.

Offaly has a border with 7 counties, Galway, Roscommon, Westmeath, Meath, Kildare, Laois and Tipperary, so you could kill a lot of birds by driving from Rochfortbridge (WH) -> Edenderry (Offaly) hitting Kildare and Meath, and then going across the M/N7 into Laois as far as Roscrea (tipp) heading back up to Banagher and over the bridge to Galway, back to Ferbane into Athlone (Westmeath again, and the other side of the bridge to Roscommon..

Other county straddling towns, or close to borders, I know of would be Abbeyfeale, (Kerry and Limerick), Charleville (Cork and Limerick), Birdhill (Tipperary and Limerick) Limerick city itself (Clare and Limerick), Rathmore (Cork and Kerry)

[5 Sams]

Go from the Carrickdale to Newry and you'll do three counties

[Goats Do Shave]

Super AZ!

[Shamrock Shore]

Aiming for Rooskey will give you Longford, Leitrim and Roscommon without too much journeying

[Declan]

Meath is also bordered by 7 counties Louth Monaghan Cavan Offaly Westmeath Kildare and Dublin so lots of options depending on what direction you are heading 

[Billys Boots]

Arva should sort you for Longford, Cavan and Leitrim.

[brokencrossbar1]

Kilbeheny covers Cork Limerick and Tipperary.

Ballybinaby/Hackballscross covers Armagh/Louth, just ask Thomas Murphy

[Louth Exile]

Drogheda - Louth/Meath
Kingscourt - Cavan/ Meath
Kilcock - Kildare/Meath
Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. Although the whole of the town is in Monaghan you are only miles from the Louth, Meath & Cavan county boundaries

[lynchbhoy]

Arva should sort you for Longford, Cavan and Leitrim.

...and these days Dublin too ! 

[lynchbhoy]

this could cause a row
but
ballaghadreen mayo/roscommon
the west part of carlow town (graigcullen - over the bridge) is in Laois
Ferrybank in waterford is waterford/kilkenny

[Owenmoresider]

Mayo/Sligo - Charlestown/Bellaghy, Ballina
Roscommon/Sligo - Boyle, Ballyfarnon
Leitrim/Sligo - Dromahair, Ballintogher, Tullaghan, Cliffoney
Leitrim/Donegal - Bundoran, Kinlough
Leitrim/Roscommon - Drumshanbo, Carrick, Rooskey
Roscommon/Mayo/Sligo - Ballaghaderreen (but it's in Ros, lest you be told otherwise )
Galway/Roscommon - Ballinasloe, Ballymoe
Leitrim/Cavan - Glenfarne, Blacklion, Dowra, Ballinamore, Carrigallen
Galway/Mayo - Ballindine, Shrule, Milltown

Not all on the border, but near enough for hostilities.

[take_yer_points]

Fivemiletown is in Tyrone but is only a few hundred yards from Fermanagh and a few miles from Monaghan.

[the Deel Rover]

this could cause a row
but
ballaghadreen mayo/roscommon

not a chance sure everyone knows that ballaghadreen is in mayo Lynchboy well for the football anyway i'll sit down and wait for the onslaught

[behind the wire]

Arva should sort you for Longford, Cavan and Leitrim.

...and these days Dublin too ! 

dublin seems to have eaten up a lot of towns. is it true that lucan (or around that area) is now considered part of dublin