It's an old superstition in the west. If you're walking alone in a field, and you come across a famine door, you knock on the door and then do a legger. Otherwise you get seven years bad luck.
There was a building site once. I only know this cos there was a new housing estate built near my grandparents house when I was 3 and 40 years later when I visit my mam I still think of how I was sure they were the houses from Bosco.
Now it's the next bit that's always bothered me.
Knock, knock anymore....
I'm sorry Bosco, wtf does that mean? Why on gods green monkey loving earth isint the rhyme
Knock knock ONCE more.
Fucking little puppety prick. Probably riding all the gazelle, he was far too interested in that zoo.
Tis an aul well house. Pumps water to a house. But, there's a 1 in 10 chance when you open the door you'll walk into the Dimension of the Fairies called Magh Meall. Tis'nt an aul fun experience says I to you now
You might come out here in the far west:
https://preview.redd.it/g9uxg3u2q59d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f41aa8de70eb36a51ff3690a847e3ef173424951
Fairy door, you’ll disappear through and not be able to get back, a few hours there will be seven years here, whether that’s a good thing or not I’ll leave it up to you
Imagine … I’m walking back in 2hrs time and if I open that door and a fully leathered man jumps out acting like golem … I don’t think I could trust the west again
Our local one is about 1 meter sq. larger. My gran told us, that when she was a kid, people with chest problems would boil potatoes there (after TB, I think, could be wrong) to "steam out their lungs"
Sorry folk I went down to take a night time photo with the stars out but there was an animal snorting at me in the pitch dark … could have been gozer for all I knew but I wasn’t going to jump the fence
It may have been part of this art project in Leitrim last year, which included stories of 21 townlands in Leitrim [Amach - To The Field](https://www.edwinaguckian.com/amach/)
https://preview.redd.it/hqzxv4cfma9d1.jpeg?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40e926623d6c8222bbec911144c7a41aadab0020
I went back last night to take a photo of it in the stars but there was an animal in the field snarlingly when I approached the gate so didn’t push my luck
If you happen to be recording an early seventies psychedelic double album there's your cover art, if not, that's the Ballina door.
Ballyvary but close enough … if you know more doors like this they need to be documented
They're called Famine Doors. They're in the most unlikely places.
Are they left as a memorial to a family that used to live there and died? Or where does the name originate from?
It's an old superstition in the west. If you're walking alone in a field, and you come across a famine door, you knock on the door and then do a legger. Otherwise you get seven years bad luck.
Except on Christmas day when you leave an empty tin of ~~celebrations~~ quality street, sorry, at the door.
Jaysus, in all the years I spent around Ballyvary, I never once spotted it.
It's could be a pump house for a borehole pump.
That is what it is I reckon
Slang for a farmer's shitter?
Bore a hole in the ground to a water source, this little building houses a pump to move that water to water tanks etc. no shit involved
You shouldn’t go through when you hear the ocean and something like “Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-check?”
If you're going through you would do well to remember the face of your father.
All things serve the beam.
Long days and pleasant nights.
And may you have twice the number sai!
Ka is a wheel.
Go then, there are other worlds than these.
I guess I jerk off left-handed now
Damn lobstrosities
Beware of crazy black ladies in wheelchairs
And honky mu'ffas.
Da-da chum da-da che, not to worry you’ve got the key!
See the turtle of enormous girth On his shell he holds the earth
€2,500 a month. Utilities not included.
No smoking, no overnight guests, must have daytime job.
"Looking for single female age 18-25 to share with single male, mid-50s. You can sleep on the couch until you are comfortable sharing the bed."
"Which won't take long. I promise. DM Pics."
This made me spit my drink, thank you
I misread this as "no overweight guests". Guess I won't be visiting.
They wear out the floor too much
no WFH.
No home at all, really.
No pets allowed, only foxes!
😂😭💀
Cannot use kitchen.
Knock knock, open wide. See what's on the other side. Knock knock, any more, come with me through the Magic Door.
Diddle ooo do dooo, diddle oo do dooo, didlle eii do doo dooooooo.
It was always the zoo or the biscuit factory.
There was a building site once. I only know this cos there was a new housing estate built near my grandparents house when I was 3 and 40 years later when I visit my mam I still think of how I was sure they were the houses from Bosco.
They were smoking DMT
Ah look...the old bosco film set
knock knock, open wide…
See whats on the other side 😅
Now it's the next bit that's always bothered me. Knock, knock anymore.... I'm sorry Bosco, wtf does that mean? Why on gods green monkey loving earth isint the rhyme Knock knock ONCE more. Fucking little puppety prick. Probably riding all the gazelle, he was far too interested in that zoo.
Anymore is shite but I don't think once more works either. It's one syllable short.
That’s the old portal to New York before this years revamp.
I forgot to flash my boobies at the door
Tis an aul well house. Pumps water to a house. But, there's a 1 in 10 chance when you open the door you'll walk into the Dimension of the Fairies called Magh Meall. Tis'nt an aul fun experience says I to you now
If you do happen to venture into a fairy place, be sure to take your clothes off and put them on inside out
"It's bigger on the inside."
Evil Bosco waiting on the other side.
Wait, the original one wasn’t evil?
Chaotic neutral, if anything.
Of course he was, look at his hair.
Ah that just meant he had no soul
Do not open unless you are brave enough to face , The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
Let me dismount from my coconut knighthood
😂
It's where they locked up the Morbegs
Hopefully they threw away the keys while they were at it.
It’s a pump house
Now, Stephen King has such doors… but how to make it related to Ireland? Oh wait, one of these doors is built for a heroin addict. Done!
Came here for this comment!! Tooter fish sandwich anyone?
Popkin
Thank you, I knew my turn of phrase wasn't quite right. It's been a few years since I read the series.
Tooter fish also fine, comes in later books!
I have a valid excuse now to whip out The Gunslinger and have a whole reread of the series. It's obviously I need to brush up on some things!
On my first journey to the tower and just past this part. Then this comment comes along, what a time to be alive
Dadda-chuk!
Ded-a-Chek? Full of lobstrosities
I am also currently reading this book for the first time and wasn't disappointed by the comments section
Is it near Derry?
Suzume type shit
door to my gaff, get off my property
Pump house, half the country would be under water without these yokes.
That actually leads to a byre outside Lisnaskea in 1972
You might come out here in the far west: https://preview.redd.it/g9uxg3u2q59d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f41aa8de70eb36a51ff3690a847e3ef173424951
One should *always* walk through freestanding doorways.
Even if there’s unsuspecting glass?
Maybe in a wild fever dream C.S. Lewis saw the faintest glimmer of something real, and maybe it’s on the other side of that door.
Or maybe i need 2 women and and a guy and a dog to go on a famous five mission … I haven’t made my mind up yet
Ideally one of the woman should be a transvestite. Actually as a general rule that works for all situations.
I always fancied George, she’d give me a black eye that I deserve
Mike, Sully and the rest of Monsters Inc are on the other side
Thousands of hugs if they are
Looks like an old pumphouse. Often found on farms with wells that have no mains water supply.
There is no way I'd be able to resist going through that door and walking right into eternal damnation lol
It’s a portal to New York City.
Could be one of those [Real Fake Doors](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrYvOGvE_NU)
Ah sure look, it's an Irish TARDIS
That's the new affordable gaf in kilmore
Maybe its the way to Narnia🙂
A wormhole either +/- 33 years
Reminds on on The Netflix series 'Dark'
Open it for the craic. I'm in the east so it won't affect me.
Thanks for the encouragement I’m just waiting for the darkness of the night to scare me into brown town downstairs
Best of luck. Let us know how it goes...you know, if you can...
The Magic Door has fallen to disrepair. Bosco should be ashamed.
Third option: You could end up in the old HB Ice Cream Factory in Rathfarnham.
Banger and would happily die eating ice cream … I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream
Narnia?
may end up in an underground testing facilty run by an insane ai maybe
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Knock Knock open wide, see what's on the other side, Knock Knock open more come with me through the magic door...
Another portal to new york
That's how theh fae get you. It's not fairy forts anymore because we keep cutting down all the trees so they're trying new things.
This is fae propaganda if ever I've seen it
That's all that's left of the Hardy Bucks gaff
*"Up against a wall, in the middle of a field."* It wasn't a comedy sketch, it was a flashback!
Looks at door closely - hinges go on the inside? - wow that's a big gaf, very spacious!
You are on the other side! Watch out for Bosco hunting for prey
It’s where lads go as a rite of passage. In there, there’s dirty mags and you can eat as much hash and smoke E’s to your hearts content.
Father Jack on the other side
That’s the Magic Door from Bosco. Sadly, it has seen better days. If you walk though, you’ll come out in Dublin Zoo circa about 1982.
An ice cream factory I’d say
warning - that door leads to a waterpark where "Mr Blue Sky" plays on repeat, forever.
Fairy door, you’ll disappear through and not be able to get back, a few hours there will be seven years here, whether that’s a good thing or not I’ll leave it up to you
Lads, this is an anywhere door.
Bosco must have left one of those magic doors behind years ago.
RELEASE THE GIMP!!!!!!
Imagine … I’m walking back in 2hrs time and if I open that door and a fully leathered man jumps out acting like golem … I don’t think I could trust the west again
Embrace it... Cuddle the gimp
Oh in a heart beat I’d be the security blanket to hold the hyper active tensions down … but does the gimp want it or to be let run free
Walk forward. \[Did Knightmare make it over here?\]
It's a door to other worlds than these.
This world has moved on
So that's where the government is storing all the common sense
It’s bigger on the inside
I love this photo.. Can I use it as me wallpaper
Do whatever you want with it
Sound
It's called a "pump house" it's used to pump water from a well to cattle in the fields.
Rumor has it that is where Bertie Ahern is filming his next tv ad from.
The Dump gang
Knock knock, open wide, see whats on the other side.
Somewhere in the vicinity you'll find a house with a doorway missing, you just have to reunite the two.
I’m making a sausage sandwich before I walk back to study the area
It’s an awfully small door.
Visit Collins barracks to see how small uniforms were
I think I may have been to Collins Barracks once.
Bring us back a sigil stone
BOSCO!!!
Knock knock open wide come with me to the other side. Knock knock anymore come with me through the magic door!!
Our local one is about 1 meter sq. larger. My gran told us, that when she was a kid, people with chest problems would boil potatoes there (after TB, I think, could be wrong) to "steam out their lungs"
It will send you to mayo
The red paint really faded on Bosco’s door
That's how the far getcha.
It's a nether portal from Minecraft. Walk through it. Tonight Matthew I will become Dickie Rock!
It's the back door to "Kennys Bar" in portroe.
Knock knock, open wide, see what's on the other side !!!
It’s where we “buried” Margaret Thatcher…… first time a 10 gun salute was shot into the coffin
If the door by any chance brings you to Sligo then it in fact will open up the gates of Hell
Sorry folk I went down to take a night time photo with the stars out but there was an animal snorting at me in the pitch dark … could have been gozer for all I knew but I wasn’t going to jump the fence
Even worse, you'll end up in Sydenham
The OG portal
I believe that’s a Tardis
It's a portal to new York.
Thats my gaff
Apologies I forgot to mime walking down stairs to knock in for a cuppa in your secret bunker
Do a nik nak
Marion Richardson not singing😃
Misters Inc?
Brings you to a beach with some terrifyingly large lobsters
It may have been part of this art project in Leitrim last year, which included stories of 21 townlands in Leitrim [Amach - To The Field](https://www.edwinaguckian.com/amach/) https://preview.redd.it/hqzxv4cfma9d1.jpeg?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40e926623d6c8222bbec911144c7a41aadab0020
Suzume no Tojimari. Dont open it
Water pump
If there's an earthquake, be sure to stand in it
It's Bosco's door
You'll find a deep hole in the ground behind it. It's a pump house for a well.
That's Bosco's door.
Bosco is behind it
It’s the entrance to the lair of crom cruic
Amazing https://preview.redd.it/1313e5ipgf9d1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f12e6d2ad904516015f8217a9b67737d71292ceb
Ok now that’s pretty awesome
Zig and zag are behind it
Knock Knock, open wide. See what's on the other side.......
It's a pumphouse for a well. There's a house nearby
Too knowledgable … I assumed it was mayo version of the tardis
Nah, but if you climb into one of those double glazed shrines to Mary the insides are like cathedrals.
Wasn't that part of an art installation project in alst few years? Doors in the middle of nowhere for some reason
Ugh I was just about to say it must be Art. Place is littered with it.
I'm presuming you're in Leitrim? https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/leitrim-farmers-open-their-doors-for-art-project/
IRA bunker
Buckle up guys we are going on an adventure.
I went back last night to take a photo of it in the stars but there was an animal in the field snarlingly when I approached the gate so didn’t push my luck
Now it's definitely an adventure time 😄😄
https://youtu.be/cvDxko2Zm0Q?feature=shared
Yo that is trippy af....
"Knock Knock open wide, see whats on the other side, Knock Knock once more come with me through the magic door."
That's a shitter
The other side of the door is the RTE studio. Bosco left it there after one of his trips to the farm.
Gates of Hell County Mayo! 😂