The Crypt: Polly Hops

This pub closed so long ago that I don't have a licence number on file for it. It burned down just before Christmas 2007; and there were never real plans to reopen it so I presume the licence disappeared off the register that year. My oldest copies are from 2010.

My Dad, who doesn't drink, quite liked this pub; and we'd go here semi frequently for food, and I definitely drank there on some of the latter trips.

While I never attended them, the pub was known for its trad music and dancing shows, to which bus loads of tourists would come out for "dinner and a show" packages. This is something that still exists elsewhere, notably in the Dublin mountains and foothills at S0336 Johnnie Foxes, S2031 Merry Plougboy, and 1002618 Taylors Three Rock; as well as some city centre pubs that don't need to do the bus bit.

Newcastle, which you could say Polly Hops was in, at a stretch, has lost two of its three pubs to fire - McEvoys burnt in 2004; and while the McEvoys shell still sits there, the Polly Hops site was rapidly cleared and is now used as a light industrial estate. Oddly enough, the next pub North of here towards Lucan, the Fox's Head, also burnt down in the early 90s.