S1521 Floods

A former colleague warned me not to go here; albeit it had its previous name (The Four Roads) back then.

I went here.

It was fine. There may have been the tiniest bit of "look at the outsider" going on, but this happens a lot - an abnormally large outsider turning up can raise eyebrows anywhere. That's pretty much all I have to say about the visit to the pub - it was absolutely fine. The suggestions of imminent disaster if I went in were not correct.

One of the older outer suburban pubs, opened in 1938; and sitting on the corner site in a row of the typical red brick shops that 1930s housing estates; this could almost be in England in terms of architechture.

The corner location is the obvious one for a pub, but it is matched by another across the green that is and was never a pub (I believe it was a H Williams supermarket originally). This building confused my "can always tell a pub" senses, but they aren't the most traditional pub buildings in an Irish setting.

The Four Roads of the old name here could almost be counted as five - there are three roads radiating off Sundrive Road rather than a crossroads of two roads creating four directions.