2017 Summary

2017 was the first full year of this project,

As well as populating and maintaining the map (1350+ past and present pubs, all manually placed), I have visited 101 premises for the first time. December was the busiest month for this - 18 new premises; with January being the quietest with only 1.

This has had a net impact of only 88 on the target figure, due to changes in the total number of pubs; with 286 of 1004 licences listed having been visited as of today.

On the licencing side, there's been 24 additions - a few of which were existing pubs missing from the list but the bulk of which are actually new pubs; with 11 removals - most of which had been closed for years. In terms of actually open pubs, there is a small increase from closed premises reopening outweighing existing premises closing without licence cancellation.

I've visited everything from tiny pubs to huge venues, semi private bars (with public licences, of course) to transit locations with millions passing. Pubs visited go as far West as the Springfield Hotel, South as the Blue Light and North as, well, the airport - North County Dublin is in next years plans!

I've spent probably more time on this not actually in pubs - between trawling newspaper archives, Thoms Directories, the Dublin City Archive and other sources researching for the map, articles posted on the blog and other future projects.

Next years plans include the previously mentioned focus on North County Dublin - I have substantially completed the North city centre now yet have little done in NCD except for some premises in Swords (last visited in 2006). I intend to start taking photos some places to break up the text-only format and to start writing more on the history of pubs and licencing.

Pub #300 isn't too far away and I'll be trying to select somewhere important enough for it. #200 was the Blue Light and #250 the Long Hall so somewhere with history is essential.

N0195 Mission

A sister bar to N0215 Dice Bar, sharing their access to some exclusive beers produced by/for the owners. I finally got to try one of these, having not known or noticed when visiting the Dice Bar.

This may actually be bigger than Dice Bar internally, having two and a half or three levels depending on how you count them, but operates much shorter hours - one staff shift six days a week seems to be the norm.

The corners around the O'More Bridge had three pubs until maybe ten years ago; at times recently there has been none as Mission itself is fairly recent and there has been a large number of short-term occupants of the building. Despite large quantities of apartments it seems the area doesn't have the volume of locals to support the number of pubs it once had.

1006953 Oscars Cafe Bar

A permanently busy premises in Smithfield which effectively seems to be more a restaurant with a bar licence than an actual pub at this stage. While not as restaurant-y as some of the other places like that (TGI Fridays, Captain Americas etc) it doesn't seem like somewhere you'd go for a pint on its own - the other pubs on Smithfield Square are more suited for that.

N0224 The Belfry

Recently reopened after one of the longest closures I'm aware of - around 8 years or so - this former tradtional 'locals' pub is now a stark, black painted premises both inside and out. It still had a substantial number of older, presumably local, patrons on the evening I visited.

Fairly reasonably priced (a common factor to Stoneybatters pubs, or at least most of them), this should be a good addition to the options in the area.

N0196 The Barbers

A barbers with a pub in it; or possibly a pub with a barber in it. Its an interesting concept at least

The barber wasn't operating the day I was there, but the equipment is very much on show and the decor of the rest of the pub is to match, including much of the seating being barbers chairs or hairdryers.

N0223 Tommy O'Gara's

A traditional Dublin pub, although one that additionally serves a range of craft beer to match the demand of a rapidly gentrifying Stoneybatter. Cheap pints, racing and darts on the TVs, bar covered in the sports pages of the tabloids.

N0221 The Glimmer Man

A rambling bar and lounge in Stoneybatter with eclectic decor. 

Nice and warm with a stove running on a cold December day, reasonably priced drinks and what may not be quite an official policy of letting you bring your own food in as it doesn't serve any itself.

1007597 The Bell

A 1960s/70s replacement building for a much older pub that was on the site before.

A quick diversion in to spatial history here:

Pubs in Blanchardstown are in general vast in size. This is because it has always remained in the old Dublin County Council area, and prior to the 2000s, had the "one mile" rule applied for new premises. This didn't quite work out as requiring them to be one mile apart, but did ensure they were relatively far away from each other, with the huge housing areas of Blanchardstown having pubs on almost a grid system.

If you look at the map, ignore the Blanchardstown Centre related licences and look at the Blakes Tavern pin this becomes quite obvious.

This added up to Blanchardstown having at times one of the worst, or the worst, pub to population ratio in the country and ensured that, just to serve demand, the pubs were gigantic. The Bell is no exception.

Like some of the pubs earlier in the day (which will be below this post), most of the tables were reserved for Christmas parties and the remaining areas were quite busy so I only found a perch near the toilets. Its a suburban pub, its nothing worth shouting about, but it does have a very good off licence adjoined. This is good both in range in and in refrigeration - huge range of conventional and craft beers, most chilled.

N0226 The Black Wolf

A very recent reopening of The Vineyard, which had been closed for some time. Vast in size, again.

Decor, drinks and food menu are pitched as being the younger market bar of those in Blanchardstown, and a decent pint of Founders was obtained for a slightly high price for suburbia. Bulk of the tables were reserved for Christmas parties, but I found a comfortable corner to watch the world go by on the main street despite that.

N0228 The Greyhound

A pub which appears to be a combo of an old Georgian house and extensions, located in the car park of a small shopping centre. It's huge, as is the norm for Blanchardstown

Recently enough extensively refurbished - and most importantly, repainted, as the newer extensions were quite a hideous colour for a long time.

Seemed decent enough if very quiet due to the time of day

N2244 The Great Wood

Another Wetherspoon premises, and like the majority of pubs in Blanchardstown, absolutely vast. A former purpose built nightclub, it lay empty for years after its third (at least) incarnation closed down.

Its the least worst of the three Wetherspoon premises that I've been to in Ireland so far - some atmosphere, better staff and the usual range of dirt cheap drinks. I had no need to eat but my previous experiences of Wetherspoon food here have put me off anyway

N0776 Skylon Hotel

This hotel has recently undergone a major refurbishment complete with a star upgrade. Despite being quite set back from the road, the bar is open to the public and is laid out entirely as a lounge designed mostly for food service.

As suburban hotel bars go, its nice. I'd stick to the pubs across the road, though.

N0146 Cat & Cage

One of the older pubs in Dublin, this former roadhouse is now a slightly rambling gastropub. With beers on offer from sister pub S0005 JW Sweetmans it probably has the best selection of the premises in upper Drumcondra by a decent margin.

I didn't sample the food, having just had a mediocre steak in a nearby restaurant (along with a nearly 7 euro bottle of lager!)

N0155 The Slipper

Located across from DCU, this pub has an odd mix of local regulars - from an older community - and students from DCU venturing beyond the on-campus bars. One of the cheaper pints I've had recently and snooker on the TV - would have remained for another except I was meeting someone!

N0208 McGowans

This pub is actually so generic, despite its huge size, that I repeatedly forgot the name and had to check a map to remind myself where I'd been

A vast sports bar / music bar / late bar in lower Phibsboro. There are similar venues elsewhere a similar distance from the city centre and all the way out to the suburbs.

N0063 Cumiskeys

This is the Broadstone/Dominick Street pub with this name - there being more than one even in Dublin 7!

A traditional Dublin city centre pub that is now starting to see trade from the DIT Grangegorman campus. The closest pub to the Dominick Luas stop, its one of many detailed in Publin's list of premises that are now served by the recent extension.

S0027 The Lombard

A small-ish city centre pub with B&B rooms. This is the nearest pub to the Dublin City Library and Archive where I spent a morning in the research room digging through directories of various kinds for the map. After that I went here for lunch

The food is acceptable but nothing exciting, the range of drink decent and the staff were friendly. It's not somewhere I'd usually be near except when at the DCLA but I'll probably drop in again after another visit.

Closing and (Re)openings (Jun-Dec 2017)

I last covered the openings and closings of Dublin pubs back in late June. There's been a huge amount of change since then - this is only what I'm aware of, at that!


First up, the changes from previously reported status. S0025 East Side Tavern, which was announced as permanently closed back in June, is neither permanently closed or closed at all - it has reopened and is operating under the same name. 1013114 Token has received its upgrade to being a pub and has been visited.

Then we have reopenings. S0007 Tramline, formerly Play and twentyone has opened, now on to Hawkins Street rather than D'Olier street (and has been visited).

N0224 The Belfry in Stoneybatter has reopened after an extremely long closure, as has N0060 The Legal Eagle. Comparatively,  S4607 Mulligan and Haines has opened a very short period of time after Sweeneys Hotel closed down on the same site/licence. N0099 The Luggage Room both closed (as the Dubliner) and reopened in the time period.

After all that, we have had the largest set of new openings since I have detailed stats for (2010).

Two new Press Up Entertainment venues in the same overall building have opened - 1013039 Robertas and 1013229 Dollard & Co are, respectively, a bar and a food hall in the overall set of buildings containing the Clarence Hotel, Worksman Club and Liquor Rooms.

A number of premises which are not specifically pubs have also opened with pub licences - 1013149 Urban Brewing is a new microbrewery, restaurant and bar in the CHQ building; 1013164 Pearse Lyons Distillery and 1012980 Dublin Whiskey Museum are tourist venues now licenced to sell samples after tours/exhibits and 1013276 Omniplex Cinema Rathmines is as the name suggests, a cinema - this is likely a response to the Stella reopening across the road (licence number for this is not yet known)

And finally, we have the closings. Fortunately, there aren't a huge amount.

S1526 Rosie O'Gradys has closed for redevelopment of the site (there will likely be a new pub here after this, S0041 Neds has closed for redevelopment (there will be a new hotel here), S1493 McCauleys has closed but is up for rent again. N0858 Bram Stoker Hotel has become an emergency accommodation hub.

S0029 O'Donoghues

This is the pub on Merrion Row - there being multiple premises with similar names.

A noted music pub, its impossible to make your way in to any of the rooms here and not see multiple bits of Dubliners memoriablia - this being the pub they're most commonly collectively connected with out of the hundreds they performed and drank in.

The premises these days is a bit of a labyrinth, with traditional areas either side of a huge smoking area, and upstairs rooms which can be comparatively very quiet, but may be privately booked at a given time

My attention was drawn to a large poster in the back corner bar of Dublin pub fronts from at least 20 years ago; complete with a map - which, unfortunately, light conditions and the few pints consumed in the earlier pub made it impossible to photo in decent detail. I will return during a quieter, brighter time to get info from this. 

S0153 The Ferryman

This and the next post are a little late due to how busy I've been in the life that pays for doing this...

One of the last of the dockers pubs - the map shows the volume there used to be along both sides of the river - this has long since changed in to being an after-work spot for the banking and tech industries that now work in the docklands.

The building has been extensively renovated and now trades as The Ferryman Hotel. Its a bit more twee on the interior than I imagine it was 20 years ago, with random road signs and old photos you'd expect in a theme bar.

December 2017 licence update

Huge differences to trawl through this month, but very little change

Renumbered
1013363 Clayton Hotel Liffey Valley formerly N2503.

Duplicate
S4542 A never seen before theatre licence for The Globe on George's Street (not on my records back to 2011)

N1218 Springfield Hotel

This is one of the few county border area hotels that may escape peoples notice - hiding as it does with a Kildare address in the licence file. However, the old Dublin series licence number gives away its actual location which is a few hundred metres inside the border.

The bar here is a fairly normal suburban hotel bar, used as a local by some nearby residents in both Leixlip and Lucan.

S3207 Harding Hotel / Darkey Kelly's

A tourist bar with an awful name. Surprisingly decent selection of drinks though!

November 2017 Licence Update

This is the first licence update after the annual renewal point as as normal about 40% of all premises have not renewed their licence yet. Anything which is actually removed this month won't be noticed until next October's list comes out, unfortunately

There are still some changes:

New
1013276 Omniplex Rathmines - I presume this is a reaction to the Stella Cinema across the road reopening with drinks service; I expect the Stella itself to turn up in the next few months

Renumbered
1013257 Gibneys Malahide renumbered from N0316

N2198 Liberty Hall

This is one of the more difficult public licenced premises to get a drink in - its not open to the public very often and most events that it are open for are ticketed. I suspect SIPTU members will have more potential events to go to and possibly some political parties too

This has a public licence due to the Liberty Hall Theatre - this is the large two storey building to the side of the tower. The bar itself is the first floor of the tower and is actually quite large but has a total of two sets of two identical taps - Guinness and Budweiser - and a small range of bottles and spirits.

I was there for the Irish Stand event, which hopefully won't need to be held again next year - with any luck Trump will be gone. There's a panto on - for all of three days - in December this year which is probably the next potential chance for someone to visit.

S0300 Gleeson's

This heavily food orientated pub in Booterstown has a deeply confusing layout - due to the slight hill its on, what seems like a restaurant upstairs from outside is actually just a quieter end of the bar/lounge layout once inside.

Food is pushed over everything else here - the off licence section to the front sells food items and is called the "Food Corner" and the single menu for both the restaurant and bar section has little in the way of bar food beyond burgers.

Food was decent enough although they were out of many deserts even early in the evening - this is a pub blog not a food critic one so I won't bore with the details.

S3795 The Forty Foot

This Wetherspoons has all the atmosphere of drinking on a ferry - an airport has more life to it. The food is quite poor too.

Prefer the Three Tun Tavern in Blackrock significantly, which isn't saying much. Dun Laoghaire has a decent selection of other pubs even if there are far fewer than there used to be.

1009755 Three Tun Tavern

The first JD Wetherspoon pub to open in Dublin, back in 2014 and one of the cheapest pubs in Dublin. It also probably has the least prominent Wetherspoon branding of any pub in the chain; albeit I've clearly not been to the 1000 of them!

Whatever you may think of Wetherspoons pubs probably still applies here - its fairly large, there's no background music or TV noise, there's a unique carpet and the prices are very low.

The dearest draught pint is under €4; cask ales are €2.75 - when you consider this includes Jaipur at 5.9% this is incredibly cheap.

Like the initial few Wetherspoons, this is in an existing pub premises; this one is claimed to go back to the 18th Century originally. This gives it slightly more of a Dublin pub feel than you might expect but it is still very like the rest of the chain.

I didn't look at the food prices, assuming they'd be online - but they aren't. They're not dear either, though; but the food is not fantastic by any means. However, you're unlikely to find a meal and drinks cheaper anywhere else in Blackrock and the nearest similar priced pub would be S3795 Forty Foot which is *another* Wetherspoons.

N0199 Delaneys

The "other" long standing pub on Smithfield Square (N0198 The Cobblestone gets all the attention), this is a good traditional Dublin pub in a fine looking building.

There is an inexplicable (to the first time customer anyway) "Members Bar" at the front overlooking Smithfield to which you need to be allowed access - it was empty, as you might predict; so either nobody was allowed or wanted to sample whatever delights there are within.

Its a bit less, well, rustic inside than the Cobblestone and if you're not in to trad, this is probably the better choice in the area.

N0192 The Richmond

A traditional inner suburban pub near the corner of North King Street and Church Street.

This is an area which has lost a huge volume of pubs over the past 50 years - and even more recently enough with The Tap (likely to reopen) and Saints and Sinners (up for sale as a 'former public house' so unlikely to reopen) closing down; however there is likely to be an increase in housing in the area as stalled developments finally restart so we're probably at the lowest volume of pubs now.

N0214 McGettigans

This is the original McGettigans that started what is now an international bar and hotel chain; although strangely it isn't listed on their website's properties list currently - neither are their branches in the North Star Hotel or the Regency Hotel however.

I believe this was closed for quite some time; and until fairly recently possessed a wonderful example of a 1960s/1970s pub exterior that you just don't see anymore.

It's now a fairly generic modern city centre pub, inoffensive and a decent enough place for a pint. Seeing as the other bars nearby are all rather different to the norm in their own ways (Token, Dice Bar, Frank Ryans) this would be a good choice for a more traditional pub.

1013114 Token

This is a rare thing - an actual new pub, rather than a rebrand of an existing one.

Based in what was built to be retail units on Queen Street, this retro gaming arcade opened as a restaurant early this summer and then upgraded to a pub licence shortly after. It is still heavily food based, with little in the way of seating for drink-only purposes - however, nearly every games cabinet has a drinks holder.

Upstairs, there's a big range of original, non-emulated cabinets from the 70s to the 90s; downstairs there a range of pinball machines. Nearly everything is one token a go, with tokens 50c each in low volumes and reducing to as little 30c should you wish to buy rather too many for one evening! I'd recommend getting 10 at least.

Larger groups wanting food would be advised to book a table in advance as it was quite busy on a weekday evening.

N0215 Dice Bar

Formerly partially owned by the Fun Lovin' Criminals, this was one of the few 'alternative' bars in Dublin when it opened in its current guise back in 2001.

There has been a pub on the site for significantly longer than that, though - 1770 apparently. The building is a decent example of a older pub building, even if the front corner is a rebuild after a 2007 incident involving a Luas and a bin lorry.

The current operators were formerly involved in the Dublin Brewing Company, one of the first generation of craft breweries in Ireland which unfortunately closed down in 2003. They are still involved in brewing, which means that there are some beers only available in the Dice Bar - had I known this in advance I would have ensured to try these. A return trip must be in order at some point.

Dublin's Former Pub Chains

With the traditional lack of tied houses for the non-Cork based brewers in Ireland, Dublin has never really had that many cases of multiple premises owners until recently. Now, groups like Louis Fitzgerald, Mercantile, Press Up and Charlie Chawke (no single website) have sizeable holdings and even a brewery - Galway Bay - has multiple pubs. This generally started in the 1990s, with some of the current groups and also Sean Quinn's large group existing back then

Prior to this, most pub owners had one or two premises at most. However, there were two notable chains during this time which are no longer with us. A third, Madigans, exists to this day and may eventually get their own article.

J G Mooney

J G Mooney & Company was a Dublin-based spirit merchants who built up a sizeable estate of pubs, mostly larger scale. They had assets outside of Dublin and even outside of Ireland, but the Dublin premises are all we're interested in here!

Mooney pubs had formulaic names, rather like many UK chains have to this day - generally named in the format of "[Street] Mooney". A few reminders of this hang around to this day - N1098 Parnell Heritage Pub is still generally called the Parnell Mooney by locals, and some parts of the signage of the Abbey Mooney remain on the PermanentTSB on Lower Abbey Street

J G Mooney was a listed company and had diversified in to property and consumer electronics retail as well as its original core business. Shares were suspended in 1973 and after continued difficult trading, began divesting of its pubs in 1975. In 1976, the remaining premises were sold to the Madigan Group who, I believe, don't operate any of these premises anymore. J G Mooney was eventually liquidated in 1982.

Mooney premises I am aware of are:

Abbey Mooney (closed, now a PermanentTSB branch)

Baggott Mooney (closed, now a PermanentTSB branch)
Bohemian Mooney (now N0232 Bohemian House)

College Mooney (now S0009 Doyles)
Dun Laoghaire Mooney (now S0270 O'Neills)

Earl Mooney (now a branch of Anns Bakery)

Grafton Mooney (now S0094 Bruxelles)

Liffeyside Mooney (reopened in 2022 as Meaghers)

Parnell Mooney (now N1098 Parnell Heritage Pub)

Update 2022: When reading a publication by the Institute of Public Administration that was basically a set of 20 year-end roundups for 1967-1986, I found a reference to Mooneys buying the Brazen Head in 1973. I wasn't aware of this; and it turns out that it's because, well, they didn't. They never completed the sale, blaming problems with the leases of the flats included in the premises; and this was eventually settled in court in late 1974. I wonder whether this was the real reason for failure to complete the sale considering their other issues in 1973.

Belton Group

Patrick Belton, TD (easily confused with his son Paddy Belton, TD who later ran the chain) opened his first pub in 1937 on Collins Avenue - a road which, apparently, he himself named - their political persuasion should be determinable from the name alone, if not some of the others!

The corporate structure of the Belton Group was not as clear as the PLC structure of Mooneys, so its slightly harder to extract information from archives on them. Companies within the group included Europa Inns Ltd and United Bars Ltd but many pubs were held in individual companies.

The Belton Group peaked at around 20 premises in Dublin in the mid 1970s and ran down from then on as investments and diversifications faltered. They were primarily in suburban areas, unlike Mooney who focused on the city centre.

In 1972, they were involved in a failed bid for J G Mooney (above) and in 1974 they were involved in, but later withdrew from a bid for the Murphys brewery which apparently owned 140 premises at the time (almost if not entirely in Cork). By 1977, they had made a proposal for major developments of premises adjacent to the Ilac Centre which also did not proceed, and this was cited as a major reason for later financial issues.

The Group went in to receivership in 1986 and liquidation in 1987, with final payments to creditors as late as 1993. The ownership of the pubs was extensively scattered. Most are still trading.

Paddy Belton moved to London in 1987 to attempt to re-commence in the pub trade (reported as gossip in the Sunday Press, a FF paper likely slightly happy that an FG publican had failed, but died on May 22nd, 1987.

Belton premises I am aware of:

1001214 The Traders, Walkinstown

1002299 The Graduate, Killiney
N0041 Keatings (now Ryans), Store Street
N0051 Beltons (now Lowrys), Summerhill Parade
N0123 Rendezous (now The Beaumont House), Beaumont Road

N0142 The 19th (now Kitty Kiernans), Collins Avenue

N0173 Swiss Cottage - sold in 1948. Demolished.
N0175 Autobahn, Glasnevin Avenue
N0589 Oasis (now Cabra House), Cabra. Closed.

N0824 Towers / Seven Towers, Ballymun S/C. Closed.

N0909 Black Sheep (now Liz Delaneys), Northside Shopping Centre. Closed.
S0797 Thirsty 1 (later the Farmhouse), Monkstown Farm. Demolished.

S1476 Submarine (now Rory O'Connors), Crumlin 

S1527 Blades / The Blades (now Bradys), Terenure 

S2096 Finches, Rowlagh

S3099 Central Hotel, Exchequer Street

Hunters, Frederick Street - I think this became Reynards. Gone anyway.
The Leinsters (later the Deerhunter, Glenageary). Closed.

Seven Stars, Parnell Street - demolished for the Ilac Centre.
Beltons, North King Street - demolished

N0600 Ashling Hotel

This hotel stands alone on a site further down Parkgate Street from the other pubs. Extensively rebuilt in the late 2000s, it has a very swanky bar/lounge with table service for drinks. It's the dearest of the lot on the street and it was also the quietest from a noise perspective - it was actually fairly busy, mostly with people working on laptops with coffees and pastries rather than drinking.

Its not somewhere I'd see much reason to go to unless staying in the hotel or a business meeting in the area.

And so concludes the visits to the pubs of Parkgate Street. The area of the city in general still has many more pubs - even with closures in the last ten years of a fair few others - so I will return.

N0204 Eamonn Rea's

The pub is the last in the main row of buildings on Parkgate Street and is named after Limerick All-Ireland winning hurler and 2013 Limerick Person of the Year Eammon Rea who bought it in 1989

An unusually laid out pub, with what you would assume were lounge and bar doors going in to the same room, with a large, low bar in the middle of it; this pub offers pizza and pint deals as their food offering. 

It was even quieter than the others during a weekday afternoon, but as it offers live music on weekend evenings it is presumably busy during those periods.

N0206 Nancy Hands

This is another food focused pub on Parkgate Street, one which also does the music and dinner 'shows' more commonly associated with somewhere like S0366 Johnnie Foxes. As a result its a fairly touristy pub compared to the others on the street.

The pub interior is interesting and includes various salvaged items - a staircase from Trinity College is pointed out specifically on their website as one they want to draw attention to.

Was a quiet enough place for a pint on a weekday afternoon after the lunch crowd had subsided.

N0205 Ryans

Parkgate Street has a lot of pubs on it for a small enough street, particularly when you consider it only has buildings on one side. It has a lot less than it had before, though, with N0207 Liam Walsh and N0202 The Millennium both currently closed, and the Sadlers Inn turned in to an insurance office.

Its also an area I'd never gone for a pint in, despite passing it frequently on the bus. So an expedition was in order to rectify this

First up was this branch of the FXB Steakhouse chain, one of the three with pubs attached. FX Buckley started out as a chain of butchers that my mother always considered too expensive when she lived in the city centre - this pub is, however, not expensive at all for where it is.

Pints of lager for a fiver and a decent sized steak sandwich (containing three small steaks) with chips for 10.50 is pretty decent in the city centre.

Atmosphere in the pub is decent, although it maybe doesn't need quite as many signs reminding us its a Victorian pub - there are enough reminders like the striking plates for non-safety matches beside each table!

1013222 Hudson Rooms

This will probably be the longest time between a visit and a post on it, at nine months!

This premises first showed up on the register with a restaurant licence late last year and now makes an appearance with a conventional 7 day licence. At the time of my visit, only the restaurant licence was on the register so only it got recorded.

Specifically branded as a gastro pub, this is in a cluster of food outlets around the cinema entrance of Liffey Valley S/C and probably gets most of its trade from cinema goers. From memory, the food and drinks were fine and definitely superior to the other pub on the premises (1011234 TGI Fridays)

September 2017 Licence Update & Year-on-Year comparison

Two licence updates in two working days isn't the normal release rate - and this one is the big one as the final list for the licencing year.

Firstly I'm going to deal with the normal month on month comparisons:

Additions:
1012867 Temple Bar Inn, Fleet Street - new hotel
1013222 Hudson Rooms, Liffey Valley. Have already been, review upcoming.
1013229 Dollard & Co, Wellington Quay. New premises, food orientated but fully licenced.

Returns:
1004780 Fleet Street Hotel - obviously not a licence cleanup as I thought

Next to the year-on-year comparisons.

The following licences have not appeared at any stage during the past year, and as the premises is closed, I'm removing them from my master list and changing them to red pins on the map. They may re-open although some of them have planning permission in to demolish.

Premises which were explicitly removed during a given monthly updated rather than simply not appearing as renewed will have been been changed to red already; as will anywhere where the extinguishing of the licence is reported in the press.

I've excluded anywhere currently on the market for rent/sale as these are likely to reopen in the short term

1000996 Paidi Og's, Mulhuddart
1007880 Hilton Charlemont - had multiple licences so probably a cleanup
1010777 Kylemore House, Kylemore Road
S0271 Walters, Dun Laoghaire
S1429 Bridge House, Crumlin
S1590 The Enbankment, Saggart
S3900 Burn Beach Club, Stillorgan

"August" 2017 Licence Update

Revenue have silently updated the licence file at some point recently, with a date of the 31st of August on it. The update date on the actual website hasn't changed, but the files have.


There's a bigger list of changes than some months and most of them are pretty substantial.

The map has been updated

Added:
1011790 Nash's, Patrick Street. This closed many years ago and the old licence number (S4327) had been removed. It was recently sold.
1012980 Irish Whiskey Museum, new pub licence for this museum on Grafton Street
1013039 Robertas, new pub on Essex Street
1013114 Token, new pub on Queen Street
1013149 Urban Brewing, new pub in CHQ
1013164 Pearse Lyons Distillery, new visitors centre on James' Street
N0028 Cusacks, North Strand - had been missing previously. I've already been to this pub
S4458 Fleet Street Hotel - some form of cleanup of the licencing here seems to be underway (see removals)

Removed
1004780 Fleet Street Hotel
1010778 Fleet Street Hotel - duplicate licences cleaned up
S0255 Tuning Fork, Rathfarnham. Long closed and to be demolished
S1450 Barley Mow, Francis Street. Decades closed and recently for sale
S1511 Carrigans, Old Kilmainham. Long closed

Renumbered
1013026 The Dominick Inn from N0110

Historical photos now added to map

I have now added links to historical photos of nearly 100 pubs - mostly closed ones but also a few premises where the building has been fully replaced on-site.

This has been done using mutliple image libraries; primarily the Dublin City Libraries one, the Duchas Collection and the RTE Stills Library. Images run from the 1950s to almost the present day depending on the library. All contain vast amounts of content, well beyond pubs and you can lose days going through them if you have any interest in history.

I've also discovered that Dublin City Libraries has a database of some other collections which I will now be working my way through.

September 2017 Licence Update

...is also unlikely to happen. Revenue have not updated the register since mid-July (for a July 1 date) and even the few other categories of excise licence that had registers updated in August do not have September updates.

I would very much hope we get an October update due to it being the critical one due to the licencing court dates in September. If none occurs it is likely that it can be provided in the future though, as Revenue were very helpful in giving me legacy data.

Daft has been my main provider of updates for the map in the past few months - pubs I don't pass with any frequency that have closed will usually turn up for rent.

S0122 The Jar

Rebranded from Solas to the current name (which I find a bit tacky personally, but each to their own) a few years ago, this pub has an in-house branch of Base pizza. Otherwise its a fairly standard modern city centre bar, in keeping with the surrounding bars on Wexford/Camden Street.

S0198 Cassidys

A (now) rare smaller traditional pub for Camden Street, this is more like the pubs you'll find away from the main nightlife areas of the city. Its also one of the cheaper pubs (although still not hugely cheap) around the area.

1009574 Camden Exchange

There's a unique situation here - this is a pub which cannot legally call itself a pub.

Equipped as a restaurant premises for the filming of the RTÉ docu-drama Raw, the agreement which enabled transferring a publicans licence to the premises requires it to operate as a cafe-bar and not promote itself as a pub; or apply for late licences.

The building was originally a National Bank branch, presumbly closed after their merger with Bank of Ireland due to the larger branch down the road. This leaves a fine looking premises for the new "pub" to use

There's a decent selection of beers and a small enough food menu

S0007 Tramline

A cavernous, underground multi-room pub and restaurant in what used to be Play/21s. There was a pre-launch listening party for The Script's new album on when I arrived - unfortunately without free booze, the music industry not having returned to their early 2000s profligacy.

There was a decent range of pints on draught - with different ones on different bars which I can see being very confusing for someone who has already consumed a few; a cocktail bar which I didn't try and a wood fired pizza oven in the second room.

They've got a slightly modified version of the Luas stickman cyclist warning sign up on a few walls, which I regret not taking a photo of for here (there's one viewable elsewhere). I was worried this sign would vanish when the Luas works are complete but hopefully this preserves it!

Pat Liddy's Pub Crawls

While raiding my mother's bookshelves for potential research material, I found well-worn copies of Pat Liddy's Walking Dublin and Secret Dublin, from 1998 and 2001 respectively. I completed the majority of the walks in these books back in the day, but as I was vastly underage in 2001, the two pub crawls include were off-limits.

Pat does a number of scheduled walking tours, but a pub crawl isn't one of them; and the book doesn't seem to be in print so I doubt a quick listing of the pubs and some commentary on what's happened since 2001 is going to be a problem.

The city centre was split in to a Northside and Southside route, each staying roughly parallel to the river. The Northside tour is particularly interesting for the scale of change which has occured in only 16 years. Both consisted of more pubs than it is sensibly safe to drink in in one session, however there were recommendations to this effect!

The Northside tour starts at the Jameson distillery, which had just reopened with the new visitor centre. The old Whiskey Corner visitor centre was still operational as a bar at this stage and is the second stop; but this is now closed.

The problems in completing the crawl continue, as the third pub, The Quill, has been closed for some time and planning has been applied for to change use from a pub to a coffee shop. However, it would have been worse even a few weeks ago, as the fourth stop, the Legal Eagle, has just reopened after a long closure and refurbishment.

Fifth up is the Chancery Inn which has been reported as closed on boards.ie (although I haven't verified this). Its status as an early house was not mentioned, but it wouldn't have been much use if you had to skip the first four due to them not being open

The semi-drought continues, as the next premises is the Ormond Hotel, which must be closed for a decade at this stage. Planning has been received for redevelopment and this will likely reopen.

The next up is the Morrison Hotel, which is fully operational; then Zanzibar which is closed with plans for a replacement hotel; then Pravda which is fully operational - under its new name of the Grand Social.

We get a good run for a bit now. The Arlington Hotel's Knightsbridge bar, Madigans on Lower Abbey Street, Wynns and the Flowing Tide - all of which are very much open. Life in the Irish Life Centre (demolished) and The Plough (shut for years but still extant) bookend the Abbey Theatre (open) however.

The last pub is the Harbourmaster, which is operational.



The Southside crawl has no such problems - all pubs are extant with only two name changes. It starts just across the river - the book suggesting that the foolhardy could consider doing both in one day.

This starts with Mulligans, continues to The Bridge (O'Sullivans now), The Palace, Buskers, Blooms Hotel, The Oliver St John Gogarty/Left Bank, Eamonn Dorans (Old Storehouse), The Auld Dubliner, The Temple Bar, The Norseman, Fitzsimons, The Clarence Hotel, The Porterhouse, The Stags Head and Davy Byrnes.

There's some very significant gaps between pubs towards the end of this tour, with a few potential venues open in 2001 that I would have suggested instead of the cluster in Temple Bar; but there's still a good variety of pubs on each - more so with Dorans and Buskers as they were in 2001.

August 2017 Licence Update

...it appears there won't be one. No updated register has been published by Revenue yet.

S3708 4 Dame Lane

A fairly cavernous modern late bar on, unsurprisingly, Dame Lane. Specialises mostly in cocktail promotions. Its a bit like stepping back in to the days of the Tiger, but it has modernised sufficiently for it to not to be as much of a slap of nostalgia as, say, Capitol Lounge which hasn't left 2006 yet.

1009700 The Snug

I had heard tales of a very cheap pub on Stephen Street, spoken of in almost mythological tones on forums and the like.

That was the Cafe/Restaurant Royale which has now become The Snug, and its still very cheap. Prices are similar to a rural pub or a sports club - two pints of lager came to €8.10

Its a small enough, traditional locals pub. The toilets are an interesting experience for the taller patron, as the ceiling is about 6 foot high, and lower in the cubicles.

It has a very small selection of pints and even smaller selection of spirits so there isn't much to head here for other than the price.

S0091 The Long Hall

Pub #250 - roughly a quarter of the way there, so I decided it had to be one of the pubs which I repeatedly get incredulous replies when I say I haven't been there.

A repeated winner of "best pub" awards, with their own Powers Whiskey released for its 250th year of operation last year, the last refurbishment of any scale here occured in 1881. It has had some concessions to modernity since (heating, a ladies toilets, and there was a TV sitting powered off above the door that's occasionally used) but nothing that really detracts from the feeling of Victoriana

It's not the easiest to get a seat here - we ended up perching at the ledge opposite the bar for the entire time - but its worth a trip.

S0088 The Foggy Dew

This is a fine "Victorian" pub, which misses out on the regularly made lists of them by virtue of being a year too late. Until recently, it had an interesting view of the Central Bank plaza, but it now looks out on hoardings due to the redevelopment there

There's a decent range of pints and vaguely acceptable prices for Temple Bar. Was able to sit quietly reading while waiting for someone which is rare enough for a city centre bar in the evening (although there are others - The Bankers for instance)

N0005 O'Sheas

A building with a significant history, this was the original Morans Hotel and a noteable rock venue in the 1970s. Its now a mid-range hotel with a large bar and trad sessions; and very much targets the tourist market.

1003309 TGI Fridays

This is the Airside Swords branch.

See review of the Liffey Valley one - they're all the same.

This one also featured the wait staff delivering a choreographed Happy Birthday to a child which made it feel like Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag. As a chain founded to be singles bars, they really have gone off course.

N1083 Briodys

(this post has been split from a former mega-post)

I would worry that this nice little pub may not have long left, as its licence is recorded as being held by OCS Properties Limited, the firm owning the building that formerly house Clerys and for which they have recently submitted a major planning application, however it does not appear to be impacted by that application. An enjoyable but brief visit ended with having to go find my bus home.

N1072 Brannigans

A fairly long established pub, almost opposite the Pro Cathedral, this pub was recently enough - in my lifetime anyway - renamed after the infamous Garda "Lugs" Brannigan.

Its a decent traditional city centre pub. Function room upstairs, food menu on the website although I didn't have reason to see if it was on offer by 8pm on the day I visited. With the loss of the Sackville Lounge, there's been a reduction in traditional pubs off O'Connell Street so its nice to see that some still exist.

N1224 Madigans

This is the O'Connell Street branch of the long-running Madigans chain. Its also the last city centre branch for me to the visit - only the one in Kilbarrack SC remains now. There's more pubs called Madigans than are run by the chain - as someone else said (it was probably Publin.ie) - it'd be an interesting pub crawl to try every pub called Madigans in a day.

Anyway - this is a fairly generic touristy pub. My opinion of it was worsened heavily by the clientele. Three midlands men took the other half of my - small - table without asking or ever acknowledging that I was there. The food, however, is pretty decent. Its a very generic Dublin Pub menu but its well executed with good ingredients.

N2123 The Living Room

There's an odd pileup of licences here. This sports bar on Cathal Brugha Street is on the ground floor of what was Eircom's HQ, but is now 1012141 Holiday Inn Express. However, it retains its own licence.

It also shares its smoking area with N0906 Gate Hotel (AKA Fibbers) on Parnell Street and N1556 Murrays on O'Connell Street. It'd be be a bit of a cheat to claim one pint in the smoking area covers all three licences, so I won't - I've done one already anyway.

This pub has a decent range of drinks, isn't too dear; has a few food options and shows a huge variety of sports on different TVs. There's also a shisha vendor in the smoking area.

County Boundaries (Updated)

An Amazon delivery today left me with a copy of The Dublin Pubspotter's Guide from 2012, which has details of "over 900" pubs in County Dublin.

I'm happy to see someone who agrees with me on the number of pubs in Dublin (the LVA insists its under 750, presumably as not everyone is a member; and other people assume every pub uses a 7 day Publican licence; and is on the Revenue list in the given month they check and claim there's about 650). I'm slightly less happy to find a sticker on the back saying the author sells copies for a tenner as I bought it second hand (so he got nothing) for more!

Anyway, this book alerted me to Mhp0136 The Fox Inn in Ballymadun as a pub in Dublin. The odd licence number is because Revenue treat it as being in Meath due to an Ashbourne address - however, it certainly isn't. It has been added to the map.

There are - at least - four other premises in this situation of not appearing, or at least not always appearing, under their Dublin addresses. Another one only became apparent to me when verifying this. They are all in the outskirts of Leixlip, which itself is in Kildare.

1011787 The Salmon Leap is staring at Kildare out its front door - as the name suggests, it is adjacent to the Liffey which consists of the county boundary here. I haven't been here yet.

N1218 The Springfield Hotel is a bit further down the road. I've been here a few times... but never partaken in more than a cup of tea in a function room, which I don't consider as counting.

N1958 Becketts Hotel is also nearby, and I have validly been here. It was also off the register for a while, but as it now has an inaccurate Kildare address I missed it returning - this has been corrected on the map

Finally, 1008359 Weston Airport often has issues relating to planning due to its boundary-straddling. While the old entrance was in Kildare, the terminal building that contains the bar and the new entrance are entirely in Dublin. I've also had some enjoyable lunches here, so this is an addition to the list I don't resent for reducing my completion stats!

These additions more than cancel out the extinguishing of the licence at the Edenmore House that I became aware of during the week and maintain us at over 1000 licences active in the past 12 months. However, as Browns Barn will be extinguished imminently, we're going to hit 1000 exactly again.

Update August 2018:

The Blue Gardenia in Brittas has now reopened after a lengthy closure. As it was closed for so long I assumed it was on a Dublin-coded licence and had been delisted; however I decided to actually check the national register, and sure enough it is there as Arp0667 with an inaccurate Wicklow postal address - and has actually been on the register solidly since 2011, the oldest one I have. Map and target list have been updated.

S0162 Crowe's

Situated in a run of three pubs (two licenced premises as Mary Macs/Peader Kearneys are the same premises), this is the only pub in Ballsbridge I'd never been in - probably as I assumed it was the same licence as the lot originally!

Full of rugby memorabilia and historical elements relating to the owners, this was quiet enough inside for a Sunday but there wasn't a seat to be had out on the footpath with people sunning themselves.

S0209 O'Connells

This is the O'Connells on South Richmond Street - one of the more common names for a pub in Dublin.

An agreeable traditional Dublin pub - not a huge amount to say about it. Large selection of Irish whiskey with nearly every bottle tagged with the price for a measure, which is useful.

S0081 Dame Tavern

You take a step back in time going in here, although not as far as it may once have been going on other reviews claims that the walls were dark brown from pre-ban nicotine stains.

A very small one-room pub with a few seats and an area for trad musicians, the interior is at least as old as the watercolour painting they have of the bar itself at some point in the 1950s or 60s - everything is basically the same.

Was only one barman on and despite being relatively busy there were no problems with service. Decent alternative to some of the larger, louder pubs nearby.

S4095 The Bank

There aren't many pubs around with a stock ticker above the bar. There's almost certainly only one that has a stock ticker that's 6 weeks out of date.

Converted from an actual bank, something extremely common in the UK but significantly less so here (N2404 Grand Central and the Bottlers Bank in Rathgar are the only others I can think of), this pub has won awards for its food a number of times. I had plans to eat elsewhere though, so a swift pint - of Guinness's Citra IPA that tastes suspiciously like they're trying to eat Yellowbelly's market - was all I stopped for.

The pub is a lot smaller inside than you'd expect from outside, and in what could just be a nod to its former use, its probably one of the smallest pubs with an ATM!

N1620 Bo-Co

A rare enough case of a pub rebranding and changing course without me noticing at all. Formerly Bodkins, this was a DIT student pub for decades. With DIT slowly moving away, and Capel Street becoming ever more interesting (on what other street can you buy an angle grinder, 'hemp' seeds and a dildo?), it was an easy change to what it has become - a sort-of craft pub with a strong food element.

The bar has a good range of spirits as well as an extensive draught lineup, including such dated stereotypes as Pabst. Food options are primarily based around wood fired pizza, with a very genuinely wood fired pizza oven visible from the bar - the piles of fuel are stored nearby.

I quite liked this pub - its not in a location I'd be in often but its definitely worth a visit on its own.

July 2017 Licence Update

The monthly licence list arrived today, and despite there still being a few months for 2017 renewals to appear we're all of 12 licences below the final 2016 figure (964 vs 978). 3 additions and no other changes help that upward trend.

This also hits a very important milestone - there are now exactly 1000 premises which have had a licence in the last 12 months (and have not been deleted due to permanent closure).

Additions:

1012522 The Maple Tree, Saggart - this is a new pub in a new housing development. 

1012782 The Hideout, Campbells Row. This is a reopening after many years shut, which I have already visited.

1012792 Java, 1xx bus gates, Dublin Airport

S0086 The Palace

For the reasons of its fame, and its whiskey collection, this is of the pubs I've most regularly been asked how/why I hadn't been there before, but there's an easy answer - its usually packed.

A Monday afternoon provided the option to get a seat and sample the offerings. Only downstairs was open - upstairs is the bit specifically marketed as a whiskey bar - but the range downstairs is still amongst the largest in the city, particularly for special editions of Irish whiskey.

I didn't have the time to make as much use of this as I'd want - a re-visit on another quiet day is in order!

N1103 Wynns Hotel

A trip back to the 80s - well, a little bit. With a bar that is only accessible through the lobby, a carvery menu and a fairly dated seating layout it feels very much like the hotel bars that I would have been in after events in my youth. Food was decent, though, and it was a relatively quiet place to read the paper with a pint. Doubt there's a huge amount of walk-in, drink-driven trade here.

N1084 Pipers Corner

Sackville Place was without a pub for a few months since the closure of the Sackville Lounge, so it is welcome to see that it now has one again.

Formerly Sean O'Casey, this pub has just reopened after a long time (and a refit). The new name reflects the theme, with Irish trad being the purpose of the pub. Beer is cheap for the city centre and it seems there's going to be live music most nights. Indeed, compared to other pubs in the city that specialise in trad, the drink prices are extremely low so I can see this becoming popular with tourists rather rapidly.

N1127 O'Neills

The last of the Lucan pubs for now, this is the most traditional Dub pub of the lot of them. Bar to the front, lounge out the back, Dublin GAA memorabilia lining the walls. Compared to the larger and more food oriented premises in Lucan, this is quite a change - it is probably the smallest premises in the town.

A "you had to be there" moment around the type of glass a gin is served in made the visit quite funny, but there's no way I can explain it in text and keep any meaning.

N1128 Courtneys

Compared to the previous entry of Lucan's newest bar, this is one of the oldest ones. A thatched pre-famine country pub that's now in the middle of a huge suburb. Like the other old pubs in Lucan, it has suffered repeatedly from flooding so the interior is a bit more faux-old than actually old but it still works.

There's multiple different bars and eating areas, and a huge smoking area here. Was quiet enough this specific evening, but with the final Lions test on early in the morning a lot of people had drunk their fill by early and had gone home.

1007884 Carrolls

A fairly new pub in Lucan Village, this is part of the Louis Fitzgerald chain and only opened in 2013.

This building used to be a butchers, but was empty even when I was in school quite some time ago - planning permission to convert to a pub was originally granted in 2005 although there were issues sorting a licence due to objections.

I'd describe this as being effectively an actually nice Wetherspoons. TVs were present but most off and the remainder on silent, background music quiet/inoffensive, and a focus on food. Small range of craft beer which is rare for a Fitzgerald pub (they usually have none). Food was quite good  -something 'spoons in Ireland can't even come vaguely close to.

Upstairs there's a second outlet of the Delhi Darbar from Celbridge should you want good Indian food instead.

S0136 Blooms Hotel

This premises is expensive, and not even justifiably so really. On a side street in Temple Bar, and probably better known for the Club M nightclub and its murals, Blooms has a slightly twee bar called the Vat House. Pints were 7.10 early on a Friday evening. I don't see any reason to go back here - it may appeal to tourists but its not even well located for that.

S0078 Sheehan's

Having left a work event in 1009296 Dean Hotel - still don't like it but wouldn't be as bad as the three word review from last year - the fun of finding somewhere to get a seat and edible food on a payday Friday evening started.

Surprisingly, there was a table available in the corner in Sheehan's on Chatham Street, and an enjoyable soup and toastie with a few IPAs was had before heading for the last train

This visit actually completes my set of more traditional bars in this entire area of the city - but there's still a few less conventional licence uses to go around - a few full pub licenced restaurants and Brown Thomas's bar for instance.

S0023 Chaplins

Situated on Hawkins Street and relatively easy to miss - for now - this fairly small Dublin pub is one that I'd barely noticed before starting this project. Now with a Luas line in situ outside and operating from December it will be seen by many more potential customers.

Quite traditional but with a few craft taps and some modern food options, and there's also a comedy club upstairs two nights a week.

Closures and Reopenings (May/June 2017)

There's been a few reported closures of premises in the past weeks - more than there has been for quite a while recently at that. All of these were on my list to go to so are worthy of mention.

1010077 WJ Kavanaghs has apparently closed again, having only reopened relatively recently. Both recent incarnations have been craft beer pubs

N0808 Sunnybank House Hotel has permanently closed - much of the accommodation here has been used as emergency accommodation by DCC for some time so I'd guess its going to be used as a "family hub" now

S0025 East Side Tavern has closed permanently - I have to admit that I wasn't aware this was open and had it recorded as closed from when it was Eamonn Doran's briefly.

With Token opening (as a bar - it is already open as a restaurant) imminently on Queen Street; N0055 74 Talbot (formerly Mother Kellys) reopened and S1455 Bohans listed as renovated and for lease its likely that the number of open premises will return to where it was rapidly and hopefully the slight upward trend in open premises continues.

The "foreign" pubs of Dublin

I decided the word "ethnic" would make me sound like a UKIP member, "foreign" isn't much better but I can't think of anything less bad!

I find this topic interesting as there are Irish pubs in pretty much every city or even large town in the world - including places that don't get much tourism at all let alone Irish tourists. Most are themed but a decent number exist to serve Irish communities in those places. As Dublin continues to grow as both a tourism destination and an inward migration destination, its obvious that we're going to have lots of bars themed for or serving other nationalities.

Parnell Street turns up frequently in this listing - many licenced premises and cheaper rent (in the past anyway) would be contributing factors here.

Korean 

N0107 Hop House on Parnell Street - formerly the Shakespeare and still bearing that signage - is the longest running and is an intriguing mix of regular Dub pub and Korean restaurant.

It has more recently been joined by 1010804 Drunken Fish in the former excise stores on Mayor Street which similarly has a major food element but also a large bar. Often the quietest bar near the 3Arena on a gig night, its worth a visit for anyone looking for a pint with a seat after a gig.

Chinese 

N2808 King7 is a Chinese Karaoke bar on Capel Street. That combination may not make that much sense initially, but it is more of an Asian fusion bar than any country specifically.

In the past, there was also N2805 Seven Stars (formerly Bonga) across the road, but it has been closed for some time and redirects people to King7 via signage on the door.

There was also the Ice Bar on Parnell Street in the premises of the infamous Blue Lion that was considered to be a Chinese bar by many.

Czech 

Dublin has two Czech bars, one a bit more authentic than the other.

S1472 Pifko on Ushers Quay is the less central, and less tourist-visited of the two; and also emphasises their Slovak products on their website.

S0107 Czech Inn on Essex Gate would probably have a lower proportion of Czech custom due to the aforementioned tourists.

Brazilian

Three Spirits (Formerly D-One) on Capel Street is a Brazilian bar and restaurant - one of the pubs I've yet to be to so can't really say much else currently.

Japanese

Two branches of the Yamamori restaurant chain hold full pub licences - 1010212 Yamamori Izakaya on Georges Street and 1010576 Yamamori on Ormond Quay. The latter has more of a restaraunt setup to the front and a bar at the back that can be accessed from Strand Street; with the Georges Street setup being much more of a pub - there is a Yamamori restaurant across the road.

S4187 Ukiyo on Exchequer Street claims to be "Japanese/Korean"

Thai

N2760 Koh on Millennium Walk is a Thai restaurant with a full pub licence for its cocktail bar

Australian

This is a severe stretch, but... N2610 Woolshed is a sports bar with the vaguest of Australian themes to it. It was formerly Outback, which had a bit more.

Now re-themed, S2860 Harrys on the Green used to be "Down Under at Major Toms" which closed in 2009 and reopened as the current premises. This also had an extremely vague Australian theme.

No longer operational: 

Polish

Currently, N0099 Dublin Supporters Bar on Parnell Street is about as Dublin as it can possibly be, but it was previous Zagloba which I believe to have been Dublin's only Polish bar

Nigerian

In the early 2000s, there was a Nigerian bar called Forum on Parnell Street. I can't find out for certain where it was although I believe it may have been been in N0104 which is currently a Booze2Go off-licence trading with a full pub licence.

Cuban

Long closed, N1490 Floridita opened in the Irish Life Mall replacing Life. Cuban owned and based on the famous bar of the same name in Havana, the location simply didn't work and the physical bit of the building it was in has since been removed.

June 2017 Licence Update

There's a lot of removals this month but all concentrated in a few suburban areas so its possible there was a licencing court timing issue with the bank holiday, so I'm only going to list the additions and any removals that are actually shut

Added:
1011716 Idlewild, Fade Street - I assumed this was part of the Market Bar, but it isn't.
N2252 Wrights, T2 Depatures Dublin Airport - I don't know how this got an old sequence number

Removed:
N0741 Edenmore House, Edenmore - closed for some time.

S4004 [I have no idea]

This was Lafayette and was closed for some time. Its now open again, but has no name above the door and the barman couldn't provide one either - but we already have a Bar With No Name (in S1308 Kellys Hotel) so I can't really call it that. Apparently its about to have a complete refit but currently feels quite a bit like Cassidys two doors down.

The Wax Museum has taken much of the space in this building - the former Blood Bank - and has just relaunched officially after a soft-launch a while ago, so they should have a constant supply of tourists through the door when fully operational

S0192 Humphreys

This pub is both sequentially beside and actually beside the previous premises - they are two adjoining buildings. Similar in size to Smyths but a lot quieter - due I'd guess to not doing food. Preferred it to Smyths due to being that bit quieter.

S0191 Smyths

Pub #2 of a completely accidental sequential run of licence numbers - they were issued somewhat by area for older pubs but its never a guarantee that they'll even be close by

This is a busy suburban pub rather similar to my own local in Maynooth - bar and lounge areas, big smoking garden, food on offer and a big range of mostly macro pints.

S0190 Taphouse

I nearly missed this place initially as I was using my map to find which pubs were somewhere near Ranelagh Luas stop and I'd put the pin for Taphouse in the wrong place. Not inspiring much confidence for anyone using my map as a tour guide!

Its obviously a pub from outside though, so it got a visit - and the pin has been re-placed.

Mostly a craft beer bar with what looked like a decent food menu and a large range of spirits. Every pub and food venue in the entire city seemed to be full of Mini Marathon runners relaxing after the race so the atmosphere was a bit different to what I'd expect is normal but it was fairly decent.

S0250 The Eagle

This is the one on Dundrum Main Street - as there are three pubs with the same name in South Dublin! From the exterior I was expecting something quite different to what I got inside.

Very traditional Dub pub - bookies slips, racing on every TV, cheaper than the average pub in the area. There's a larger lounge adjoining with its own entrances and indeed its own name (The Nest) but its all one premises.

S4500 Brickyard

A recent enough reopening, this large premises in the buildings on top of Balally Luas stop promotes itself as a gastropub. The food menu lives up to that, with a decent selection of beers also.

The layout and decor are a bit more towards a more generic suburban lounge (which it was before) than a gastropub but I'd say I'm definitely putting a more city centre centric view on what a craft or gastropub should look like than is really required.

N0020 Red Parrott

Another locals bar that I imagine is rammed on match days. Quite large, with a sort-of snug away to the side of the lounge in a single storey extension looking out on two aspects - unfortunately the HSS Hire shop blocks any view of the canal.

1012782 The Hideout

Update July 2017 - Revenue serial number assigned.

Recently reopened after many years, this pub is not yet on the register again and has been gone for so long that I do not have a number for it.

The reopening was with relatively little fanfare and I wasn't entirely certain it was open until I walked in the door. Regulars spot - except on match days, if the old form is continued, when it used to be packed to the rafters.

 This is the first pub I've visited since starting the blog without a Revenue number if not the only one as I've got numbers for many that have since closed. It'll appear soon enough and improve my completion stats I'm sure!

N0028 Cusacks

An interesting maritime themed locals pub.

Interior features much nautical brasswork, model ships, and an illuminated navigation chart of Dublin Harbour. Cheap by Dublin standards.

Due to timing or other issues this isn't currently on the licence register (so doesn't count for my stats yet) but is definitely trading. The licence register is a snapshot in time and does not reflect all licenced premises.

1008947 Wiley Fox

Situated next door to Liberty Hall (and its own quite hard to visit pub, N2918) this pub was formerly The Pint and a variety of names beforehand.

Middlingly busy on a Wednesday evening with seats easily available to watch the hustle and bustle at the various bus stops outside. Didn't get to spend a huge amount of time here as I was waiting for someone to arrive, but nothing would stop me going back.

S0040 Ruin

Formerly MacTurcaills, Ruin is one of the most recently opened bars in the city, having opened less than a week ago after some years of closure. Its also possibly one of the most expensive - the price list on the tables showed no pints under 6.30 although it did exclude the macro brewers from which they have some selection.

This pub has a decent atmosphere and friendly staff but I suspect it'll have to reign in the pricing slightly to bring in any of the old MacTurcaills crowd, or Trinity students for that matter.

May 2017 licence update

Tiny update. No additions. Of the tiny number of pubs that were not on last month, one has a new licensee - that's about it.

One removal, which I suspect is a temporary omission as the venues name has changed in the past weeks
S1447 Stage 19, Francis Street - this was the Tivoli Backstage until recently

Future closings & openings

Revenue haven't got the May licence update out yet (suspect someone had a well-earned week off last week!) so I decided to witter on about pubs that have limited remaining lifespans, should there be someone else trying to tick them off a list. There's also a few scheduled to open or re-open soon.

The Long Stone on Townsend Street, nestled in amongst some of Dublin's ugliest buildings, is likely to get the chop when they come down for an office and retail scheme in the next few years. Planning has been tortuous on this site though, so there's still time for a pint or two.

Just down the road, one of the cities few remaining early houses, Neds has similar hanging over it - it is to be subsumed by a hotel. I'd imagine there's a good chance its licence will live on in said hotel, but its unlikely to bear much resemblance to the current pub.

Over the other side of the river and there's another hotel planned, to replace Howl at the Moon on Mount Street.

Its not all closures though. The former Mother Kelly's on Talbot Street is nearing the end of a refit, with the name "74 Talbot" visible on some signage inside. Nearby, Wetherspoons has planning permission to convert the former church on Abbey Street, and it has also received permission to put a hotel in the former Camden Hall hostel on Camden Street.

Most interestingly (to me, anyway) is a new pub in premises which have not had one before (that I'm aware of). "Token", a video arcade bar, is to open on Queen Street near McGettigans. Their website currently redirects to a Kickstarter (fully funded and then some, at that) but their Facebook page shows work on the fit-out. There hasn't been a new bar in new premises in the city centre for some time, and realistically very few in a decade bar the cluster in the Docklands.

1002171 Merchants Arch

This is a bit touristy too (see last entry) but the building itself is worthy of a review. One of the few guildhalls left in Dublin - I believe there is only two still standing - this was an Abrakebabra for years but now has a much more sympathetic use and seems to retain much of its original architecture.

The large domed stairwell leads up to a high ceiling bar/restaurant with good views out on the city - but bloody awful table placement that makes it impossible to see them. In the interests of saving space, I presume, the toilets are in the basement which makes the trip from the mezzanine on the upper floor to them more than a bit taxing.

There's another bar downstairs which had live music in it - which, I think, was being played upstairs. If it wasn't, they were playing a clearly live recording of someone else which would be a bit strange.

S1475 The Brazen Head

I've never seen so many tourists in my life.

N0198 The Cobblestone

Possibly the most traditional, if that can be used as metric, of the pubs I've visited so far. Cheap, tiny bit dark in the back and a seisun going up front. It does, however, have a selection of craft beers on tap which many similar pubs would not. The little bit of darkness in the bar is entirely cancelled out by a large, sunny (weather depending!) beer garden in the shell of a derelict building next door.

Noted for its Irish traditional music - both free in the bar and some paid for gigs in a rear room - they sell CDs recorded live on site at the bar.

1002655 Generator

A youth hostel with a bar - not a common combination! Generator are an internal brand of "trendy" youth hostels, but the presence of a bar predates them operating here as this was once Chief O'Neills Hotel and briefly a Park Inn. When Chief O'Neills, they operated sightseeing trips up the adjoining chimney which was once part of the Jameson Distillery, but this no longer operates as the chimney is apparently no longer safe

The Jameson connection is reflected in the decor inside - there are chandeliers made from Jameson bottles - but it does feel a bit like you're drinking in a school dining room at times (which I've actually done at an event in Portugal...) but without the kid sized chairs.

Its an interesting addition to the drinking venues of the city none the less; and they do definitely invite custom from outside - there were massive signs advertising their burgers, which I unfortunately didn't get to try as I'd had one some hours beforehand.

N0219 Walshs

In contrast to the previous entry (L Mulligan Grocer), this pub both looks like and actually is a traditional Dublin boozer. Large lounge, small bar, one shirt and tie wearing barman and change from a fiver for (some) pints. Nice place to spend a bit of time

N0222 L Mulligan Grocer

Almost certainly the most gastro of Dublin's gastropubs; L Mulligans is located in Stoneybatter which is more generally a haven for traditional Dublin pubs. It still resembles one inside, having been one for many years, but a quick look at the food menu - or even the taps - changes that perception.

One wild boar burger and a pint of 9% Trouble Brewing Fresh Prince of Kildare later and any ideas that this is similar to nearby pubs (see next entry for one) are gone. The food menu is mostly Irish sourced and everything has a beer or whiskey pairing suggestion; and the beer selection is good and varied.

It doesn't have the market for craft pubs entirely to itself in the area - nearby N0196 The Barbers (which I tried to visit the same day, but it appears to have limited opening hours on bank holidays) would be somewhat similar;

S0120 Whelans

Somehow, in many years going out in Dublin, I'd never actually been to Whelans. Thinking it through, I think that many of the bands I like that'd likely to play here had been playing larger venues when I was younger. Anyway, that ended last night as Therapy? played an acoustic set in the main room to a packed crowd. Great gig, great venue.

1011789 Flannerys

This vast pub on Camden Street was extremely quiet and only partially open - but it was 6pm on a Tuesday evening, so that's to be expected. Service was in the "Vintage Bar" to one side which is primarily a whiskey bar, with the beer garden also open. By contrast to some other recent visits, this pub is surprisingly cheap for its location - €5 lager deep in to the southside is rare. Friendly barman - appeared to be the only one working there at the time - and a nice enough place to pass the time before crossing the road for the reason I was here, which the next post will cover.

S0066 & S4526 Capitol Lounge

Its like 2006 never ended!

(This pub has a pub and theatre licence on the same premises)

S0039 Long Stone

This wasn't actually my intended premises to visit at this stage - I was heading for S0041 Ned's which has recently had planning permission put in for replacement by a hotel and will presumably be closing at some point. There was, however, two men having an extremely loud argument in the doorway so I decided to go somewhere else.

Not that the Long Stone was particularly much better for noise - there was a very, very loud group inside the front door. Nearly everyone else who came in to the pub either went to the smoking area or as far away down the back as possible due to these.

However, there's not much a pub can do about that, so not really something to judge a place on! Decent range of pints, had a good dinner fairly quickly provided also. Coincidentally, the Long Stone also has planning permission applied for for its demolition but that is likely to be on a much longer time scale.

1008645 Molloys

Recently "soft" reopened, this early house has undergone a huge renovation. There doesn't seem to be a surface that hasn't been sanded, painted or reupholstered in the place and the building looks great from outside. The renovation is documented extensively on the pub's Facebook page.

I work nearby and hadn't heard that it had opened yet, but Publin put up a post about the extensive basements/tunnels underneath the building discovered during the works, so I popped in.

It is however now rather expensive for this part of the city - a pint of Galway Hooker was €6 which is steep anywhere, let alone the north inner city.

This area of the city has lost lots of licenced premises in the past decade - the Sackville Lounge, Sean O'Caseys, Radio City and Floridita come to mind as all close by; so its great to see a premises reopen so soon after closing. There is also extensive work underway on the currently closed N0055 Mother Kelly's a short distance down the road - a rebrand to 74 Talbot appears to be intended based on signage.

S0199 Devitts

Currently undergoing a major refurb, only the upstairs of Devitts is open right now. Known for trad sessions and GAA connections, this was recently sold due to a retirement. Decent pub, barman knowing your round when you go up for round 2 is always a good sign.

S0197 Anseo

Small, eclectic pub with a noted comedy club upstairs. Should probably have spent a bit more time here as time pressures of Dublin's early finishing public transport on a weekend started to bear down.

S0001 Kehoes

The first pub on the southside! Well, not really but the first on the southside register under the older system anyway.

Recently the winner of a Best Pub award for 200 years of the LVA, Kehoes actually predates the foundation of that organisation. A warren of rooms and snugs, not much has changed here since the 1960s and a lot of the decor is Victorian. Like the previous premises of the day, this can be very busy at peak periods but you may find somewhere to perch. Bit dear, likely a reflection of its location and popularity more than anything else.

As part of the Louis Fitzgerald chain, it was of interest to me to see many familiar faces on the staff - quite a few who worked in my local (The Roost, not in Dublin and hence not going to appear on here) are now here.

1007394 Davy Byrnes

Easter Sunday is an interesting day to go out in the city centre - virtually every pub and food venue is open, as are most newsagents and chemists but virtually no other shops. Jervis was shut, Arnotts was shut, Stephens Green was shut as so forth. It also meant that the pubs were a lot quieter than normal, meaning that I could go to Davy Byrnes without having to dodge hordes of tourists with books , regretting buying gorgonzola sandwiches.

The pub has a history beyond Joyce, including claims that the provisional government met upstairs in the late 1910s; but was renovated extensively in the 1930s or 40s so is not the Victorian pub you might expect. 

Worth visiting if you can find a quiet time - avoiding the weeks around Bloomsday would be advisable!

April 2017 licence update

This months licence file brings us a completely new premises for the first time since I've started, but is generally a tiny update

Additions
1012553 Odeon Point Village
S0041 Neds, Townsend Street

S0368 The Blue Light

Pub #200 for me, so I decided to go for somewhere a bit different. Requiring a driver - as the bus service is Monday to Friday only - this is well up in to the Dublin Mountains and not like your average Dublin boozer at all.

There's probably the only lounge with no bar - but an ever lit turf fire. There's a window where you can get served from outside and a a semi-covered courtyard with water bowls for dogs. There's even more, but fully uncovered, outdoor seating is in the carpark across the road, giving fantastic views over Dublin on a decent day.

In many ways it feels much more like a country pub than one in Dublin, but a few minutes down the hill and you're in the Sandyford Industrial Estate. The pub was very busy, presumably due to the good weather, with very little parking available except for motorbikes.

Roughly 1/5th of the way to the finish line now, or 1/4 when long closed premises are counted.

S3965 Cassidys

With probably the oddest clash between the pub's website and reality of any venue, Cassidys was closed for some time and reopened as a deliberate dive bar of sorts - the website relates to the former operators in what really is a different era of Dublin pubs now.

Its now dark, with grafittied walls, football crew stickers on the mirrors and a custom Trouble Brewing IPA - Vietnow - only available here and in their two sister venues (S3221 PMacs and S0235 Blackbird) on draught. Not a Sky Sports palace as in the 2000s.

N1069 Boars Head

Think I'll need to revisit this for a proper appraisal - group of about 15 rather drunk and singing Welsh lads made it hard to take notice of much else. Interior downstairs actually looks a bit like an English pub, but the GAA and other Irish sporting memorabilia all around stops that impression pretty quickly.

N2307 O'Connells

A very interesting looking pub inside. So much so that I'm not sure the pictures online (see the pub's website or tripadvisor for examples) actually show it off to full affect. Vaulted ceiling (doubt its holding anything up, but never mind) and a gantry seating area run over a half-downstairs bar with booths.

The location leads to a varied crowd but it seems a huge amount of it is tourists or people going to dive for a bus shortly - it was a train in my case! A delivery of food with extremely vinegary chips made me briefly reconsider going for that train, but I'd just eaten and was unlikely to get away with it...

N2438 The Lotts

Making claims to have the "smallest bar in Dublin" - namely the bit on the corner of Liffey Street, this is actually a pretty big pub. Ron Black's on Dawson Street probably doesn't feel the claim to be much of a challenge

This was a quick one before dinner (in The Yarn across the road - dear but decent). Pub was fairly quiet, no trouble getting seats. Friendly staff - a Scottish family who'd been in the night before were having a decent conversation with the barman about what they'd been drinking and what food to have. Not insanely dear for the city centre either.

S0113 O'Donoghues

A pub with a recent and very strange former name - "Thing Mote", a name referring to a yearly gathering to govern a town in times long past. This was a lot less crowded than the previous visit of the day and had extremely fast service - when you could find a barman, as the one upstairs was often away.

Decent pub in general. Doesn't currently count towards my stats though, as it isn't on the licence register* - when it reappears it'll be an instant win though, so was still worth visiting.

*as always, this doesn't mean it hasn't got a licence - Revenue emphasise that there are timing issues in relation to producing the file and it isn't always 100% accurate. I'd take an educated guess that about 2% of all premises don't appear in a given year's listings.

Post update March 2018: This has now appeared on the licence register on 1013043, so now counts towards statistics.

S0035 Mulligans

One of the more famous pubs in Dublin that I had never had reason to visit yet, Mulligans is steeped in history and has retained much of the decor and ambiance of a pub from well in to the last century.

Mulligans always attracts a big crowd and it was particularly full due to extra demand with rugby crowds and tourists over for Patrick's Day. Despite being famed for its Guinness - there were 4 taps alone on one bar - I decided that something lighter to drink would probably be advisable as I'd end up occupying a table that some more serious drinkers may want!

One pint of Sierra Nevada later, I made my exit. I'll return at some point when it may be less busy.

S3132 O'Reillys/Sublounge

This is one of the few pubs in the city (and indeed, the country) trading using a Railway Refreshment Rooms licence - Madigans in Connolly, the Bloody Stream in Howth and the Galway Hooker in Heuston are the others along with the tearooms at Gerry Robinson's estate in Raphoe, Co. Donegal

This pub is actually in the arches underneath the train station - a situation similar to the now long closed Vaults at Connolly. Ventilation may be a slight problem due to this - the premises smelled very musty when visited on a weekday afternoon. Lighting is done from iron chandeliers and the decor suits the rock/metal clubnights frequently held here.

Pubs in Protected Structures

The recent announcement of the closure of N1070 Jack Nealons, which is in a protected structure - also known as a listed building, made me wonder how many of Dublin's pubs are protected.
Updated: Nealons didn't close.

Unfortunately, unlike in the UK there is no way to protect the concept of the pub itself - the "Asset of Community Value" system in the UK allows for local groups to buy pubs that are under threat. Nothing prevents a pub in a protected structure being closed here.

Dublin City Council maintains a register of protected structures. As of today, there are 123 "licenced premises", 39 "hotel", 3 "theatre" and a single "pub" listed, however there are duplicates, and some of the hotels are long closed or have no public bar. These are listed below with the register entry and the premises name

2021 Update - I have added a few premises I missed, or which have had licenced premises open in them since 2017, or have been added to the RPS since 2017 - these are marked in italics

2 The Flowing Tide, Abbey Street
8 Wynns Hotel, Abbey Street
17 The Oval, Abbey Street (facade only)
98 North Star Hotel, Amiens Streets
99 Clearys, Amiens Street
102 Burkes, Amiens Street
161 Oliver St John Gogarty, Anglesea Street side
182 Kehoes, South Anne Street
256 The Quill, Arran Quay (closed)
284 Fitzgeralds, Aston Quay
287 & 4885 Kavanaghs, Manor Street
306 Lucky Duck, Aungier Street
324 Arlington Hotel, Bachelors Walk
334 Doheny & Nesbitt, Baggot Street Lower
433 Toners, Baggot Street Lower
434 The Wellington, Baggot Street Upper
461 Searsons, Baggot Street Upper
1150 Pickle, Camden Street - I suspect this is a typo and its meant to be Cassidys next door as Pickle is a restaurant. Both buildings are protected.
1158 Camden Delux Hotel, Camden Street
1160 Ryans, Camden Street
1183 Black Sheep, Capel Street
1211 Slatterys, Capel Street
1219 Nealons, Capel Street
1338 Gate Theatre, Cavendish Row
1347 The Bridge Inn, Chapelizod
1466 Nearys, Chatham Street
1468 Sheehans, Chatham Street
1517 Lord Edward, Christchurch
1542 & 7863 O'Neills, Pearse Street
1544 Bonobo, Church Street
1545 Taproom 47, Church Street
1658 Hanlons, North Circular Road
1890 The Mont Hotel, Clare Street
1993 The Bank, College Green
2009 The Westin, College Street (part of)
2012 Doyle, College Green (part of)
2045 Fallons, The Coombe
2095 The Harbour Master, IFSC
2098 Stags Head, Dame Court
2127 Olympia Theatre, Dame Street
2128 Brogans, Dame Street
2132 The Oak, Dame Street
2284 Barrys Hotel, Great Denmark Street
2323 Cumiskeys, Dominick Street
2327 Wasabi, Dorset Street
2333 The Temple, Dorset Street
2334 Eccles Townhouse, Dorset Street
2394 The Bailey, Duke Street
2395 The Duke, Duke Street
2400 Davy Byrnes, Duke Street
2481 Horse and Tram, Eden Quay (closed)
2483/2484 Clifton Court Hotel, Eden Quay
2493 Wiley Fox, Eden Quay
2640 Turks Head, Essex Gate side
2641 & 2642 Czech Inn, Essex Gate
2645 The Norseman, Essex Street
2648 & 2649 Bad Bobs, Essex Street
2652 Dolphin Hotel, Essex Street (long closed, facade only)
2719 Central Hotel, Exchequer Street
2726 The Old Stand, Exchequer Street
2921 The Palace, Fleet Street
2922 Doyles, Fleet Street
2925 Bowes, Fleet Street
2929 Foggy Dew, Fleet Street
2937 Liberty Belle, Francis Street
2961 Castle Hotel, Gardiner Row (part of)
3175 The Workshop, Georges Quay
3228 The Long Hall, Georges Street
3529 & 3530 & 3531 Russell Court Hotel, Hacourt Street
3535 & 3536 Jackson Court Hotel, Harcourt Street
3544 Harcourt Hotel, Harcourt Street
3620 McDaids, Harry Street
3622 Bruxelles, Harry Street
3968 Shieling Hotel, Howth Road (long closed)
4006 Clarkes, Irishtown
4015 & 4016 The Malt House, Irishtown

4020 Alltech Pearse Lyons Distillery
4055 JK Stoutmans, James Street (part of)
4060 TP Smiths, Jervis Street (exterior only)
4063 Peters Pub, Johnson Place
4263 The Cobblestone, North King Street
4273 Paddle and Peel, North King Street
4274 Gaiety Theatre, South King Street
4591 & 4592 Leeson Lounge, Leeson Street
4826 & 4827 Lincolns Inn, Lincoln Place
4830 The Lombard, Lombard Street side
5037 Confession Box, Marlborough Street
5098 O'Donoghues, Merrion Row
5206 Davenport Hotel, Merrion Street Lower
5215 & 5216 & 5217 & 5218 - Merrion Hotel, Merrion Street Upper
5259 & 5260 Buswells Hotel, Molesworth Street
5304 Hampton Hotel, Morehampton Road
5455 The Berkeley, Mountjoy Street
5790 Mullingar House, Chapelizod
5872 Schoolhouse Hotel, Northumberland Road
6019 Gresham Hotel, O'Connell Street
6315 Ryans, Parkgate Street
6423 Conways, Parnell Street (closed)
6424 Parnell Heritage Pub, Parnell Street
6429 Big Romance, Parnell Street
6431 Blue Lion, Parnell Street (closed)
6432 Booze2Go, Parnell Street (not trading as a pub)
6502 & 7508 O'Neills, Pearse Street
6723 McGowans, Phibsboro Road
6734 The Hut, Phibsboro Road
6735 Doyles, Phibsboro Road
6836 Mulligans, Poolbeg Street
6878 Frank Ryans, Queen Street
6884 Dice Bar, Queen Street
6928 Humphreys, Ranelagh Road
7361 Bernard Shaw, Richmond Street
7365 O'Connells, Richmond Street
7366 The Portobello, Richmond Street
7475 Clearys, Sarsfield Road

7551 Jameson Distillery, Smithfield 

7778 Shelbourne Hotel, Stephens Green
7849 Walshs, Stoneybatter
7850 The Glimmerman, Stoneybatter
7851 Mulligans, Stoneybatter
7865 Morleys, Summerhill (closed)
7867 The Castle, Summerhill (closed)
7909 O'Briens, Sussex Terrace
7992 Molloys, Talbot Street
7993 57 Talbot, Talbot Street
7995 The Quays, Temple Bar
8001 Auld Dubliner, Temple Bar
8003 The Temple Bar, Temple Bar
8152 Arthurs, Thomas Street
8155 & 8156 Bakers, Thomas Street
8173 Thomas House, Thomas Street
8177 The Clock, Thomas Street
8361 Clarence Hotel, Wellington Quay
8373 Hapenny Bridge Inn, Wellington Quay
8505 Kennedys, Westland Row
8542 Pillar Bar, Westmoreland Street
8551 Whelans, Wexford Street
8552 The Landmark, Wexford Street
8557 International Bar, Wicklow Street
8571 Grogans, South William Street
8665 The Swan, York Street

8756 Stella Cinema, Rathmines

8786 Roe & Co Distillery, James Street

Fingal County Council maintains a similar register, with far fewer entries of interest

25 The Harvest, Drogheda Street, Balbriggan
193 Gladstone Inn, Skerries
204 Nealons, Skerries
209 The Coast, Skerries
509 Smyths, Donabate

As does South Dublin County Council

009 Salmon Leap, Leixlip (Dublin side of river)
040 Becketts Hotel, Leixlip (Dublin side of river)
068 O'Neills, Lucan Village
077 Deadmans Inn, Old Lucan Road
087 Lucan County, Lucan Road
089 Lucan Spa, Lucan Road
094 Ball Alley House, Lucan
146 The Black Lion, Clondalkin
231 Yellow House, Rathfarnham
234 McEvoys, Newcastle (burnt out)
298 Eden House, Rathfarnham
321 Poitin Still, Rathcoole
326 Rathcoole Inn, Rathcoole

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown also has a list

89 Radisson Blu St Helens (part of)
574 Gilbert and Wright, Georges Street, Dun Laoghaire
697 Harbor Bar and Grill, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire
836 O'Neills, Georges Street, Dun Laoghaire
1464 Queens, Dalkey
1506 Finnegans, Dalkey