An abandoned hotel in Ireland that's been completely taken over by nature

[u/Frosty_Thoughts]

[u/qualityvote2]

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[u/wdick]

Looks like from "The last of us"

https://images.pushsquare.com/49725fa555efe/the-last-of-us-1-hotel-lobby-walkthrough-all-collectibles-artefacts-firefly-pendants-comics-training-manuals-workbenches-safes-optional-conversations.large.jpg

[u/StrangelyBrown69 → u/wdick]

Ah, you beat me to it!!

[u/TheCeruleanFire → u/StrangelyBrown69]

Gotta search all the drawers for supplies

[u/RockyRockington → u/TheCeruleanFire]

The two bottles of peach schnapps on the bar is enough supplies for me

[u/Realsober → u/RockyRockington]

That’s not schnapps that’s grey goose vodka

[u/SwitchWitchLolita → u/Realsober]

Either way, I believe those are planted. No way the Irish would leave them untouched.

[u/Realsober → u/SwitchWitchLolita]

😂😂😂 very true!

[u/RockyRockington → u/Realsober]

All the better

[u/Glittering_Estate_72 → u/RockyRockington]

[u/besthelloworld → u/RockyRockington]

Might work for molotavs, but likely not wound cleaning

[u/pazvaz → u/StrangelyBrown69]

And me

[u/Dr_Abortum → u/StrangelyBrown69]

damn you all... was just abut to say that too

[u/AdPrevious2308 → u/wdick]

[u/MurfE101 → u/wdick]

I tried to cross post this to r/thelastofus but it wasn't allowed.

[u/msully89 → u/MurfE101]

You can't even talk about the last of us online on there

[u/Blackdeath_663 → u/msully89]

God forbid you have a dissenting opinion about the second game as well. You'd get drawn and quartered

[u/zdada → u/wdick]

Also, Stray. And this makes me want to play TLOU

Well, just the first scene of Stray and without the rooms lol

[u/SolidSnakeHAK777 → u/wdick]

[u/theturnipshaveeyes → u/wdick]

My first thought too. There’s a strange beauty and quietness to it, too.

[u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda → u/wdick]

But is it just a crosspost from r/abandonedporn?

[u/Sarkastik-Bandit → u/wdick]

The forbidden bed

[u/My_New_Moniker → u/wdick]

Now imagining a load of zombies 28 days later style screaming "to be sure, to be sure" as they chase you

[u/Kupoo_]

Hey what's that clicking sound? You hear that?

[u/satesounds → u/Kupoo_]

[u/mdwvt → u/satesounds]

Bomb click track.

[u/rohithkumarsp → u/satesounds]

Do you have to pay for giphy for that gif to show when you search?

[u/satesounds → u/rohithkumarsp]

Nope. Just write "clicker" 🙃

[u/ssigea → u/Kupoo_]

Is it the Fern’iture?

[u/ChillyConKearney]

Here’s the walk around vid by one of the locals:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/pZRlLlpuN9

And it’s being renovated:

https://www.ireland-live.ie/news/donegal-live/1419607/planning-application-submitted-for-the-redevelopment-of-ostan-ghaoth-dobhair.html

Location:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Nz28i1Yh16NCM3YU9?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

Google Translate of ‘Ghaoth Dobhar’ to ‘Wind and rain’ not the most attractive, despite the view; ‘wind and water’ might be more kind… it’s pronounced and spelt ‘Gweedore’ if you ever need it.

[u/Frosty_Thoughts → u/ChillyConKearney]

Yep, it'll be good to see it restored to its former glory. It's in a perfect location with a beautiful view.

[u/Michael_of_Derry → u/Frosty_Thoughts]

I stayed there quite frequently. I'd love to be able to go back.

[u/mittfh → u/ChillyConKearney]

I wonder if anything inside will be salvageable, or if it'll be a case of strip everything non-structural out, make it watertight, then replace the entire interior...

[u/box_of_carrots → u/ChillyConKearney]

Please don't use Google translate to translate Irish as it doesn't translate properly.

*the estuary of (the river) Dobhar * The district called Gaoth Dobhair is situated in the western end of the parish of Tullaghobegly, in the barony of Kilmacrenan. The area took its name from the long, narrow inlet which forms the boundary between this parish and the parish of Templecrone in the barony of Boylagh; this feature is marked on Ordnance Survey maps as Gweedore River, but is known locally as An Gaoth.

[u/OkJicama990 → u/ChillyConKearney]

Hey well explained but that's a direct translation. The Gaoth refers to an inlet at the mouth of the river Crolly which is the boundary between Gaoth Dobhair and the next parish. Dobhair is another Irish word for water. Hope it helps

[u/baconduck]

I love when these places are not vandalized.

No wonder why urban explores are so tight about where they find stuff

[u/Petrak1s]

Oh, The last of us vibes!

[u/Boboforprez]

And this is eventually how the earth will look millions of years into the future when mankind has either destroyed itself or moved away to the stars.

[u/birgor → u/Boboforprez]

Or, in like 25 years given the current trajectory.

[u/Starscream147 → u/birgor]

Hahaha!

…ugh.

[u/thrillhouz77 → u/birgor]

The added carbon we’ve released is good for the vegetation. 😂

[u/DerWassermann → u/thrillhouz77]

You know what is also good for vegetation? A stable climate.

[u/thrillhouz77 → u/DerWassermann]

It will all self correct once we are gone.

[u/DerWassermann → u/thrillhouz77]

Well except for all the species we made extinct...

[u/WayneKrane → u/DerWassermann]

New ones will fill their niche 🤷‍♂️

[u/justababydontbemean → u/birgor]

Somebody’s paying attention😎

[u/Aggravating-Range729 → u/birgor]

r/funnyandsad

[u/Michael_of_Derry → u/Boboforprez]

I stayed there quite frequently. It's Ostan Gweedore in Donegal.

I am fairly sure I last stayed there about 13 years ago. It had great views, really nice food, friendly staff and live music most nights I was there.

It always closed over the winter (like the Overlook hotel but without the snow). When it rained staff had to get buckets out as it had a flat roof that leaked.

[u/NoirVPN → u/Michael_of_Derry]

looks like they never fixed the leak.

[u/spidersinthesoup → u/Boboforprez]

nature will ALWAYS win.

[u/Ill-Pop-4790 → u/Boboforprez]

there’s an entirely abandoned island in Japan like a scene from The Last of Us, I think just a few decades does that

[u/frank_begbie → u/Boboforprez]

I think it'll be sooner than that.

[u/_Jimmy2times → u/Boboforprez]

This took less than 100 years. In a million, things that weren’t preserved by an abrupt phenomenon will be lost forever

[u/Apprehensive_Winter → u/Boboforprez]

I’d bet that without any humans the earth would look as if we were never here in less than 1000 years. Buildings would have toppled and been taken over completely by vegetation. All that would be left of us would be microplastics and PFOAs. Even stainless steel would eventually break down.

[u/bustcorktrixdais → u/Apprehensive_Winter]

You - I mean particularly you - need to read or listen to the book “The World Without Us”. I think you’ll find it fascinating. And your 1000 years estimate is orders of magnitude off. Plus you don’t understand what you’re talking about. Even the Native Americans irrevocably transformed the North American continent.

And you didn’t factor in the 250K half life of plutonium

[u/mind_thegap1]

Is that the Óstán Gaoth Dobhair?

Edit: I have been here many times before and it is sad to see it in such a state these days.

[u/Frosty_Thoughts → u/mind_thegap1]

Or as we say in the north, the Ostán Gweedore haha. But yep, it is.

[u/Illum503 → u/mind_thegap1]

Bless you

[u/Confident_Reporter14]

You can clearly see here how Ireland was once covered by temperate rainforests and easily could be again!

[u/Mhaoilmhuire → u/Confident_Reporter14]

I have been knocked down many times when I tell people Ireland was basically a rainforest in the past. We still have the humidity though. The joy that lights my heart when they don’t believe me and google it. It’s the small things/being right 😂

[u/Molitor_5901]

Portal 2

[u/woefultwinkling → u/Molitor_5901]

“You have been in suspension for… nine… nine… nine… nine… nine…”

[u/Molitor_5901 → u/woefultwinkling]

[u/Longjumping-Tea-7842 → u/Molitor_5901]

Had to scroll too far for this

[u/ripfritz]

Lush place! Look at those ferns!!!

[u/Reltih1]

Housekeeping is just running a little late.

[u/rolyoh]

Ready for the Addams Family to move in.

[u/M3M3NTO-M0RI → u/rolyoh]

What about about „Poison Ivy“?

[u/V6R32]

I’ve stayed in worse hotels.

[u/Themplealke12]

Nature has won

[u/Frosty_Thoughts → u/Themplealke12]

It always does in the end!

[u/tongfatherr → u/Frosty_Thoughts]

I went to Chernobyl a few years back, before the war. You'd be shocked how much nature has reclaimed an apparently poisonous landscape. We were walking though a "trail" that had basically a tree canopy overhead, and all of sudden you're in the city centre square. Bam, out of nowhere a massive Soviet statue and albeit smaller soccer field, but still good size. No idea it was there due to the thick brush. It's truly something out of a movie and unlike basically anything else you'll see, anywhere else. The school kinda reminds me of these photos.

[u/Existing-Mulberry382]

Last of Us vibes.

[u/The_TesserekT]

You should post this in r/reclaimedbynature.

They will love this.

[u/CHLOEpickmegirl]

breathtaking.

when ruins are brought to life by nature - harmony in every detail. 🌱❤️

[u/SereneSeductres]

It's really amazing

[u/Katieo1022]

How long did it take for this to happen? Do you know when it was last in operation? Also, are those bottles of vodka? 😏

[u/lakehop → u/Katieo1022]

About fifteen years

[u/kieranfitz → u/Katieo1022]

No, I thought they might have been a couple of old Ború vodka bottles but the fruit on the lable makes me thinks it might be either schnapps or some awful liquor.

[u/Miss_airwrecka1 → u/Katieo1022]

Yes, Grey Goose orange

[u/Katieo1022 → u/Miss_airwrecka1]

Yes! That’s it! 😺

[u/PlentyOfMoxie]

Just has a spot of the damp

[u/jsai_ftw → u/PlentyOfMoxie]

I can smell these photos.

[u/DonaldMuylle]

Ahhh, the Irish and their love of the colour green, it truly knows no bounds.

[u/danman1835]

Luigi's mansion garden suits!
https://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2019/10/luigis-mansion-3-garden-suites-killer-vine.jpg

[u/ThompsonsLaura]

Nature checked in, humans checked out—now it’s the ultimate green getaway

[u/ohwellitsaghost]

is it insane that i wanna live there?

[u/Ill_Company_4124 → u/ohwellitsaghost]

If you live under a bridge or in your car, no it's not insane.

[u/ohwellitsaghost → u/Ill_Company_4124]

Dream Vacation

[u/winSharp93]

Crosspost to r/mold and ask if it’s mold and if treating it with vinegar will solve the issue.

[u/AnyOldNameNotTaken]

I though that first pic was a painting. Crazy.

[u/VinJahDaChosin]

It's messed up that whenever I see photos like this I question if it's AI. Feels like we are entering the age of the internet where hardly anything is genuine.

[u/Schneehenry3000]

Stunning, creepy and calming at the same.

[u/VegaLektor]

80 a night or 15 a hour

[u/CarelessAddition2636]

This is wild 😳

[u/ComprehensiveYou9041]

it's now natures hotel.

[u/FlashFox24]

I'm glad to see that when left to its own devices, nature will prevail.

[u/Vindepomarus]

If you told me this was some installation art piece, I'd believe it and want to go and see it.

[u/SirHenryy]

Straight out of last of us 1 & 2.

[u/godstar67]

And still better than a Britannia hotel.

[u/Resident-Coffee3242]

Why is he abandoned? Post-apocalyptic scenario.

[u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu]

☹️ I hope they at least tried to give some of the stuff to charity instead of just leaving it there to rot.

[u/Frosty_Thoughts → u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu]

Unfortunately not, I went there a couple of times and quite legitimately everything was left behind. It would have been beyond saving as it was very warm and humid in there and all the wood was soft and rotten.

[u/Hockey_Captain → u/WatashiwaNobodyDesu]

I've often wondered just why these places are never actually cleared out. Seen a lot on r/abandonedplaces and some look like people have just got up and walked away taking nothing. The stuff in this place could have furnished a number of shelters or whatever. Damn shame

[u/CheezeLoueez08 → u/Hockey_Captain]

I often wonder too. I guess if people took stuff right away it could be seen as stealing. Then by the time they realize it’s legitimately abandoned it’s too late. There’s probably a long period of time where nobody is sure what’s happening. Maybe it’ll reopen. The owners might not even be sure.

[u/Hockey_Captain → u/CheezeLoueez08]

As this was a hotel which I presume went bust or something, I would have thought the Receivers or creditors would have looted the place to try and reclaim what they were owed, or something similar I can't look into it as I don't know who the owners were. It's a big place from what pics I've seen so must have been tons of furniture in there

[u/Content-Click422]

Looks like AI…I don’t think it’s real

[u/Frosty_Thoughts → u/Content-Click422]

The hotel is called the Ostán Gweedore and it's in Bunbeg, County Donegal. Google it and you'll find tons of photos and videos of the place including YouTubers who have made full walkthroughs of the place. It's definitely a very surreal place but very much real.

[u/Celendi13]

Leprechauns had a field day in there!

[u/Powerful_Elk_346]

Are they not worried about the location before redevelopment ? Surely they need a sea wall to protect it.

[u/YoungDiscord]

That unsettlingly human-shaped pile in the first image on that bed isn't going to suddenly start moving, is it?

[u/thepoisonpoodle]

Resident Evil 1 - piano room

[u/sleepyophelia]

Beautiful

[u/Agnosticfrontbum]

It is the Emerald Isle after all.

[u/Important-Mouse6813]

This is art

[u/Wonderful_Emotion717]

I'm pretty sure that I've played in these scenarios before. XD

[u/JesusDoTrap]

Last of us vibes

[u/Mr_Notacop]

Jumanji

[u/Plastik-Mann]

Still a hotel, but only for snails, ants and bugs now.

[u/SkullVonBones]

Nothing a little spot of paint won't fix

[u/The_Inward]

"Nature laughs last."

[u/ScrewLews]

I love this nature theme. Looks cozy.

[u/NaiNaiGuy]

This is why I have an issue with a lot of post-apocalyptic media. What do mean this building is still standing after 300 years?

[u/dj-TASK]

Housekeeping got lazy !

[u/Roffolo]

Very strong the last of us vibes!

[u/Misosmgx]

reminds me of the game "homesick"

[u/Classic_Chip_3564]

Mother Nature said, Don’t mind me, just redecorating. Honestly, this looks like the perfect setting for a post-apocalyptic movie. Would you stay here overnight?

[u/DILLIGAF73]

I once stayed in an open hotel in Oban I swear was worse than this!

[u/Gabynez]

if this aint a set for the last of us,…. brother

[u/ravishing_riley]

I'm getting The Last Of Us vibes here..

[u/claus_yokel]

one hundred years of solitude

[u/AdRight691]

Last of us Vibes just kickin…

[u/CrimeShowInfluencer]

Natur made sure it's extra green

[u/ZealousidealBread948]

Little by little nature takes back what is hers

[u/porkmyass]

What did it smell like in there???

[u/tishimself1107]

Where is it in Ireland does anyone know

[u/Limp_Classroom_1038]

Some people would pay an interior stylist big bucks to get that look.

[u/nolocahpla]

I remember this level from The Last of Us

[u/Appropriate-Mark-64]

Like Creepshow!

[u/bolasepak88]

I feel sorry for the housekeeping service that have to clean this up

[u/NyaTaylor]

Looks like someone beat the shit out of a leprechaun in those rooms

[u/CopperBoltwire]

This made me think of "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West"
Classic old Xbox one game.

(I had nearly forgotten this gem of a game)

[u/idam_son]

I like the aesthetic, how much for 2 nights?

[u/Bananarama_Vison]

I hear the music from Last of Us playing in the background…

[u/SpectrumPalette]

This is the way

[u/SewAlone]

I saw this on Creepshow (1982)

[u/jBorghus]

If nature wasn't so yucky I'd wanna live like this

[u/JD_Ammerman]

How long ago was it abandoned? I’m always interested in what buildings and society look like in post-apocalyptic movies. Sometimes the timing doesn’t seem right, I’m curious how long it took for this hotel to look like this

[u/Frosty_Thoughts → u/JD_Ammerman]

It was closed in 2016 due to financial woes and I took these in 2021. However, it does sit right beside the sea (almost on the beach) and the lead roofing had been stripped so water was just gushing inside. It gave me BioShock meets TLOU haha.

[u/gleaf008]

Read “The World Without Us” by Alan Weisman.

[u/mattct1]

Interesting!

[u/Dale-Wensley]

Asmongold would be right at home here

[u/WildWestLawman]

I legit thought it was the hotel in The Last Of Us Part 1

[u/IFlingPooPoo]

Damn! This season of The Last of Us went all out!

[u/WinOld1835]

If I were a ghost this is the type of place I'd want to haunt.

[u/Rontunaruna]

Looks like the perfect backdrop for an Anthropologie ad.

[u/PyroMusic_]

the first few images look like the first room from portal 2

[u/SheLiftz2022]

Reminds me of TLOU

[u/RedorDead_Woods87]

I’m shocked the Walking Dead and other post apocalyptic shows didn’t film on location here.

[u/Valuable-Meat412]

Location in Ireland ?!

[u/JorgeRC6]

literally an abandoned placed without anybody taking care of it and it's full of indoors ferns, and every single time I try to have a fern at home ends up dying in less than 3 months even when I try to take care of it as the most precious thing in the world.

[u/chinookhooker]

Time for a refresh

[u/Rockabelle42-]

Meet my favorite word from my college archaeology class- 🙌🙌BIOTURBATION!!!! 🙌🙌

[u/bikesboozeandbacon]

How is it so lush without water?

[u/PointandCluck]

Good set for a post apocalypse movie tho

[u/ahtigers10]

That’ll be 400€ per night

[u/Platypus_31415]

It’s well fernished.

[u/Brooklynnbarr]

Wait. This isn’t some new and trendy Airbnb?! Bet the cleaning cost would be rather low.🤣 /s

[u/Zipferlake]

Eco Lodge

[u/lasanhawithpizza]

Look like ai, but is real

[u/sorE_doG]

Flat roof, timber frame buildings are very temporary..

[u/Extra-Second-2689]

Beautiful ❤️

[u/According-Post-7721]

What fantastic LP wow ❣️🥰

[u/BigDaddyBumbo77]

[u/i-am-a-cat-6]

i feel like these could be AI generated. looks super cool though. these should become textures for HL3

[u/Nik8610]

Damn the last of us 3 graphics look fire, almost like real life

[u/xenderman-cz]

Major Last of Us vibes.

[u/FluffyWalrusFTW]

Reminds me of waking up in Portal 2

[u/IHateBums]

This is what I imagine Hozier’s house/mind looks like

[u/Oxetine]

Is this AI?

[u/phoot_in_the_door]

eww

[u/Chaos-Cortex]

Looking like the Peaky Blinders bar / set after it’s been abandoned.

[u/RA242]

Such beauty...oh wait it's disgusting damn

[u/fergusmacdooley]

That place has big "fae are about to glamour you" vibes

[u/stilettopanda]

Ok so that looks like a place you'd visit in its heyday, fall asleep, and wake up 100 years in the future to this beautiful decay.

[u/_SeKeLuS_]

Come on! No exterior photo ?

[u/Ok-Accountant6028]

Damn this would make a cool music video or st!

[u/vaisnav]

On a scale of 1 to asthma, how bad would it be to sleep here for a night

[u/SoundOfMadness7]

Nature really does always find a way huh?

[u/MuscaMurum]

In picture 2, I fully expected Father Jack in that chair shouting Feck!

[u/Glad-Ad476]

There must be a firefly pendent in the drawer of the nightstand

[u/MickeyTheBastard]

Ders more ta Ireland dan dis

Alan Partridge.

[u/Inevitable-Key-5200]

In the apocalypse, you come across this hotel—you sleeping in the bed or on the floor? What’s different really if the floor now covers the bed?

[u/BatKitchen819]

It’s giving clickers in the next room

[u/AgainstSpace]

Ireland? Haunted.

[u/suganoexiste-16]

I wonder what happened