Those who pay any attention to the pub licence serial numbers that I use as a unique identifier may notice something odd here. That legacy code is not the usual N or S for Northside/Southside - its Mhp for Meath Pub.
But its not in Meath - its just in a Meath district court area. There's one pub with a Wicklow code (Arp) and multiple with Drogheda (Dg) so eventually you'll see some more of these
If you look at just my Dublin map, The Fox Inn seems to be extremely isolated from anywhere else - but this is because the town it is actually extremely close to, Ashbourne, is in County Meath. There are pubs elsewhere in Dublin that are further away from the next nearest boozer; but this one manages to pass itself off as being very rural from its appearance.
The pub is sizeable enough for a small townland, with one primary bar area extensively decorated with the standard things you expect a rural pub to have - including a taxidermy fox to go with the name. Its a quaint stone building, that was far too dark for me to photograph, but is on geograph.ie for your perusal.
Like a lot of these pubs, its unlikely you'll ever have reason to stumble across the place - but if you live in Ashbourne it'll only be a few quid in a taxi each way to drop out for a few in different surroundings. Just imagine it's ten or more kilometres further away!
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