This is another of the Dublin pubs which shares its name with the adjacent junction, although in this case I'm not 100% certain that the pub was named that first.
This is a fairly traditional suburban pub, but had one feature I have never seen in Dublin before - a standalone bookie plying his trade with a laptop and cashbox in the corner.
This isn't the most uncommon thing to see in rural areas - indeed, "lotto agents" were common in areas without shops that could justify a leased line for the original lotto terminals - but the general density of bookies shops in Dublin usually means that their presence in pubs is limited to pens and slips. However, there doesn't actually seem to be any of the main brands nearby, with an independent in Harolds Cross the nearest I could find on Google. Obviously there has to be demand for his services.
Francis Leonard had a number of premises in the area. This pub may have been one of them but I'm not sure. His main shop -- "grocer, iron-monger, purveyor, glass, delft, haberdasher, coal and general merchant" -- was across in the grand building that's now Bastible and the post office.
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