N0121 Kyles

This post is out of visit order, as I completely forgot I'd actually been here when organising the list of pending posts, and then realised there was one sitting hiding beneath my trip to Dalkey... better late than never anyway.

An older feeling pub than its near neighbour, Kyles has run by the Kyle family for at least 100 years - William Kyle is recorded here as a publican in Coolock in the 1911 census; and an 11 year old Harry Kyle, who was the publican here for many years, wins a Irish Independent competition prize at this address in 1922. Common in the country, family run pubs for this long are rather rare in Dublin.

(edit: A licencing challenge reported in the Evening Press in 1978 claimed the pub had been in the Kyle family for 112 years at that point - so 1866)

There's a second name that pops up for this pub occasionally - the Eastland House - but this may just be Google and similar deciding that it is called that from the operating company being called that. Searching to see if that name comes up anywhere else found a Valuation Tribunal report from the early 90s confirming that the pub had significant modernisation in 1991; which I think is probably the last major works. 

Quieter than the Cock & Bull, and with my pint dropped to the table from the bar; I think I'd prefer this to the noise and expanse of the prior pub.