N0245 Wrens Nest

One of the least accessible pubs in Dublin - something for a future listicle I think, when the massive backlog of pub writeups is fought down (as I write this, I have enough posts to schedule in to September. I visited the Wrens Nest in March!); I missed out visiting here on a previous driver-assisted pub ticking trip through the Strawberry Beds, as the pubs opening hours were exceptionally limited when under the operation of the previous generation of ownership.

In the six years since then, Maureen has passed away and the next generation now open the pub for slightly longer hours; so I headed off to get a taxi down to drop in.

I was initially foiled in my plans, as the taxi rank in Lucan village that I had been aware of for years - often using it to get home in the days when the Nitelink only ran beyond Lucan on weekends, and earlier than to Lucan even then - is currently gone; dug up for a rebuild of the park in the village. 

Resorting to the apps did get me out, eventually, and rather damper than I'd hoped - it started raining very heavily in the time stood waiting for a taxi to get to me!

The pub is definitely the smallest of the three down in the Strawberry Beds, with the smallest carpark also; but can be very busy on weekends with nice weather, particularly with the pandemic era addition of a reasonably big beer garden out front. As it was a weekend with awful weather, I was the only customer for some time on my visit - but things picked up later on. 

There's music, generally trad, three nights a week; and signs up in the bar for other events like table quizzes which would keep a constant trade coming down here outside of the good weather rushes.

You really do need a taxi to get here; and possibly the traffic-locked and currently very dug up Lucan Village isn't the best place to get one from - Castleknock may have made more sense. The bar will call for a taxi for you to get back if you don't use the apps.