Michael Caine (left) and Noël Coward (right) in The Italian Job filmed in Kilmainham Gaol.
Ireland is ranked number 17 in the list of most filmed locations in the world, according to Go Compare. with 2,527 movies and TV shows filmed here.
But what parts of the country are the most filmed?
James writes:
As part of our research into the most-filmed locations on Earth, we discovered the most-filmed locations in Ireland…
1. Kilmainham Gaol (The Italian Job, The Escapist, The Whistle Blower)
2. Dublin Castle (Northanger Abbey, Barry Lyndon, Penny Dreadful)
3. Kilruddery House (P.S. I Love You, The Tudors, Angela’s Ashes)
4. Henrietta Street (Ripper Street, Foyle’s War)
5. The Sally Gap (The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse, Laws of Attraction, The Honeymooners)
6. Dublin Airport (Educating Rita, Love Rosie, Flight of the Doves)
7. St. Stephen’s Green (Michael Collins, Scarlett, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne)
8. Trinity College (Meet the Ancestors, Byzantium, Educating Rita)
9. Powerscourt Estate (Excalibur, Love Rosie, The Count of Monte Cristo)
10. Charleville Forest Castle (Becoming Jane, Northanger Abbey, Most Haunted)
The Most Filmed Countries (GoCompare)
I think, though I’m open to correction, that some scenes for In the Name of the Father were filmed in Kilmainham Gaol as well.
In fact I know someone who worked on that film and recalled drinking pints with an ‘in character’ Daniel Day Lewis in The Royal Oak up the road. Unless he’s telling me porky pies.
The Royal Oak is a nice pub. Good toasted sangers.
Though it’s probably been well over a decade since I darkened its doors.
I remember drinking on the barge many years a drinking den on the canal just between ranelagh and leesonnstreet with none other than James cosmos who starred in braveheart filmed in wicklow
My granny was Scottish and when I said how are you to him we talked
The opening words were I remember when you were in the Sweeney playing the part of a Glaswegian copper
He was amazed I knew that
I said you said hochmagandey in the scene and I was watching the telly with my granny who went bright red
The Scottish word refers to an act which is quite naughty hence the blush.
He burst out laughing then he bought me a whiskey for that one and a great break of dawn was had by all
I always wondered if they used the canal water to wash the dishes in that place.
Something (common sense) tells me he’d remember that story quite differently…..
Jaysus, The Royal Oak. My feet appear in a scene from I Went Down that was filmed there. Is it still in trade, I wonder?
That’s such a good film, and I don’t believe it was ever released on dvd, which is a great pity.
Yeah, Rob, I have an aul’ VHS of it somewhere.
i got it on dvd for a 5r
It’s on DVD – expensive enough as it’s been deleted – but available at a price
It is still going alright Neilo. I go in from time to time. Opens at 5 everyday. You couldn’t swing a cat in it.
A tad hipsterish it has got but not too bad.
There weren’t many hipsters* in there during my time – they’d have been pulled across the counter by their Piccadilly weepers.
*I don’t hold any brief against these urban pathfinder/early adapter/good beer lovin’ types, I just needed to get in a reference to comedy facial hair
LOL!
Dundreary whiskers.
I had to google Piccadilly weepers.
Good name for a band.
Wasn’t it the black n amber in i wentdown. Where Git gets his hooter smashed
It was, I got confused!!!
The duel scene with Leonard Rossiter in Barry Lyndon was filmed in my back garden.
Deadly :)
The Blue Max with George Peppard and Ursula Andress was filmed here … best dog fight scenes of its day :)
(Thats planes not dogs btw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efc6Y6LCuuc
Kilruddery House (P.S. I Love You, The Tudors, Angela’s Ashes)
+ Far and Away
+ The Count of Monte Cristo
+ Becoming Jane
+ Ella Enchanted
+ Vikings
+ Into the Badlands S2
+ My left foot
…
This is an excellent book on the topic; https://comeheretome.com/2011/10/20/new-book-world-film-locations-dublin/
According to it, the ‘I Went Down’ pub scene was filmed in Dowling’s, Prosperous, County Kildare.
I’m sure some of the flat complexes in Dublin would be in a few movies.
What? No Skellig Michael for Star Bores? Smaller scale:
Waltons for Once. Oh, right.
Dun Laoghaire was popular (Michael Collins, etc),
Dublin 8 (Synge Street, etc).
Curracloe Strand and area for Saving Private Ryan
‘A fistful of Dynamite’ – Toner’s Pub
Start a phantom thread on the Daniel Day one.
The Tudors has plenty of scenes in Powerscourt Estate as well.
I would think that Royal Hospital Kilmainham should also be on this list…
Ah sure, the Journal did the story and the comments were better scripted by “ghost writers” anyway:
http://www.thejournal.ie/top-10-filmed-location-ireland-3903045-Mar2018/
‘Calvary’ starring Brendan Gleeson had shots of the coastline in South Sligo.
there is a ruined house at the end of the count of Monte cristo. it looks like a sun-kissed French field. but it’s in tipp or laois. wexford stood in for elba at the start too.
Most filmed locations in the world, maybe. Too bad the movies were so obscure. Were they made for British television?
Great Train Robbery in Kent station in Cork, all my sisters went down for a goo off Sean Connery.