As anyone who follows my Instagram would see, I spend quite a bit of time, particularly in Summer but not solely, up in Donegal. More specifically, this is in The Rosses area of North West Donegal. And more specifically, on its one substantially populated offshore island; which does make touring around the rest of it a tad challenging.
But its always challenging to do pub ticking when driving for the obvious legality reason; and Locallink has been fully, or almost fully at least, rolled out in Donegal - bringing 6 or 8 buses on weekdays to villages that previously had a bus a week.
So I'm going to try tick off all the pubs in The Rosses as a side project to the main one - and it could yet take longer than finishing off Dublin.
I've already done the open premises in Dungloe and Arranmore, and ticked one off in Burtonport recently - not written up along with two of the Dungloe ones. But how many pubs actually are there here?
The Rosses have fairly defined barriers, but they don't map out to the licence register - so I've had to go pluck through it to try find the ones with in. A 1993 book I have here states there are 45 pubs in the area, but time has not been good to pub figures in rural Ireland - but I've tracked down 30 premises (and mapped some of the others that once were also, like for Dublin).
I am not even certain I've got all the pubs that exist on this map, let alone the rest of them; but here we are to start:
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