DG0488 Balscadden Inn

This was the first of a road trip - I had a driver, don't worry - of North County Dublin rural pubs; a repeat of sorts of one done a few weeks before the pandemic closed everything down back in 2020; but on a much nicer day weather-wise.

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The Balscadden Inn is a pretty country pub, with a few different areas including a beer garden across the road from the building. Currently owned by the Reilly Group, who also have two pubs in Balbriggan, this pub has changed hands a few times over the years and doesn't have a particularly detailed documented history anywhere - the owners seem allergic to having websites - they have a group domain for email but with no website, and the other pubs only have their websites as Flipdish frontends to order food.  

Regardless, it is clearly quite old. The outer door to the bar is just high enough for me to stand up in; and the inner door requires crouching. 

The bar area is interestingly greebled, and offers quite reasonable prices, there's wifi for uploading your Instagram pics when there's no mobile coverage inside the thick walls and other facilities are in decent nick.

This is by a decent margin the Northernmost pub in Dublin - Stamullen and Gormanstown having none that creep over the border.