Interesting Dublin pub names

1968

- The Bleeding Horse, Camden St.

"After the Battle of Rathmines (1649), a wounded horse wandered into a tavern. This made such an impression on the owner that he named his premises 'The Bleeding Horse" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rathmines

- Buck Whaleys, Leeson Street.

"Thomas Whaley (1766–1800), commonly known as Buck Whaley or Jerusalem Whaley, was an Irish gambler and member of the Irish House of Commons" Infamous Dublin character who jumped out of the window of his Stephens Green townhouse on a horse for a bet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Whaley_(politician)

- Copperface Jacks, Harcourt Street.

"John Scott, first earl of Clonmell (1739-1 798), was known as Copperface Jack. He served as solicitor general, attorney general, and lord chief justice[SIZE=-1]. He had an extremely unpleasant reputation as a "hanging judge". He lived at nos. 16-17 Harcourt Street.

- Dicey Reillys, Harcourt Street.

Was Dicey Reilly a real person? Anyone know?

- The Gingerman, Fenian Street.

Named after [/SIZE] J. P. Donleavy's 1955 novel.

- The Hairy Lemon, Lower Stephen Street.

Named after an old Dublin character. A 1950s dog catcher who had a "lemon shaped face" and "hairy stubble".

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Can anyone think of anymore?

latenia

I thought Coppers was named after its owner-an ex-pig by the name of Jackson.

WindSock

The Bloody Stream, Howth http://www.thebloodystream.com/history.htm

10th August 1177, during the 2nd Norman Invasion of Ireland, Sir John de Courcy's expedition arrived off Howth. Unable to leave his ship, the command was taken over by Sir Almeric Tristram, said to be a descendant of Sir Tristram, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. A great battle ensued against the Danes, who were then in occupation on Evora Bridge, over a stream; afterwards known as the Bloody Stream. During the construction of this public house, we found that the Bloody Stream runs directly under these premises. Having fought a constant battle with the stream flooding the bar, we decided to make peace with it, hence the name, The Bloody Stream.

The Summit Inn, Howth

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/summit

sum-mit;

1. the highest point or part, as of a hill, a line of travel, or any object; top; apex

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The Ramble Inn in Killester. Always liked that name.

suzieb

the slaughtered lamb in swords...

arybvtcw0eolkf

suzieb wrote: »

the slaughtered lamb in swords...

I use to work on the door there!.


Darkey Kellys, Fishamble St.

Named after a prostitute who worked the street.

humberklog

Des wrote: »

The Ramble Inn in Killester. Always liked that name.

Ramble Inn and stagger out. One of my favourite pubs. Don't get to go near as often as I'd like.



Isn't the Brazen Head named after a red haired girl that watched on through the siege of Limerik? This I gathered from a very askew historic rambling guided tour I took some visiting foriegn friends on. The tour all ended in tears in the middle of trinity college. Drunkenness could have been partly to blame. I never saw the tour guide again. Thankfully.


The Flowing Tide (so I was told) was named so in the 50's as when the liffey swelled the water would rush past but only as far as the pub around the corner which was called (up until the 80's) The High Tide (its present name escapes me now).

The Headline (sound pub and happily re-opened) on Clanbrasil St. is simply named so because it was a slightly out of town beer shop for hacks (journos).

suzieb

Trace Howling Rapper wrote: »

I use to work on the door there!.

I used to go there all the time,havn't been in about 6 years though! Got a bit too old for the place at 21!

StopNotWorking

An american friend of mine actually mentioned the bleeding horse to me before. He said he went to Ireland with some friends and while on a tour() they were brought in there and told about that horse and the renaming of the pub..

Very weird..

humberklog

StopNotWorking wrote: »

Very weird..

Not really wierd as it's a usual stop for tourists on the Joycean trail.

humberklog

A pub opened on the grounds of the old Stardust and named itself Skelly's. Named after a highway robber that frequented Skelly's lane (the road it's on). This Skelly chap lent his name to the term scallywag. As Es's were often pronounced as A's back in them days. So from the man that had Skelly's Lane (and Skelly's pub) named after him also came the term Scallywag.

arybvtcw0eolkf

suzieb wrote: »

I used to go there all the time,havn't been in about 6 years though! Got a bit too old for the place at 21!

Probably know you so, I worked there then!.

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It's just called The Lamb now, afaik.

What did The Thing Mote mean, anyone?

And I always wonder how 4 Dame Lane got it's name.

Oh, wrong thread, I thought this was Boring Dublin Pub Names.

humberklog

Des wrote: »

It's just called The Lamb now, afaik.

What did The Thing Mote mean, anyone?

And I always wonder how 4 Dame Lane got it's name.

Oh, wrong thread, I thought this was Boring Dublin Pub Names.

Thing Mote was named after a viking gathering of people once a year to discuss what was going on in the village and what they were planning on doing for the year ahead. It was attended by all villagers and all could voice. This then lended itself to modern democracy. The 'Thing' was the gathering and the 'Mote' was the place. The actual position of the Thing Mote is thought to be where O'Neill's on Suffolk St is. About 50 metres short of where the bar Thing Mote was.

The word Thing of course then also entered our modern lexicon to describe something we were familiar with but unsure of (much more like modern democracy).

Chris Lowe

Des wrote: »

It's just called The Lamb now, afaik.

What did The Thing Mote mean, anyone?

It was a viking assembly: http://www.geocities.com/heatheneurope/thingmount.html
Access it before geocities closes later this year.

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humberklog wrote: »

Thing Mote was named after a viking gathering of people once a year to discuss what was going on in the village and what they were planning on doing for the year ahead. It was attended by all villagers and all could voice. This then lended itself to modern democracy. The 'thing' was the gathering and the 'Mote' was the place. The actual positiom of the Thing Mote is thought to be where O'Neill's on Suffolk St is. About 50 metres short of where the bar Thing Mote was.

The word Thing of course then also entered our modern lexicon to describe something we were familiar with but unsure of (much more like modern democracy).

Interesting, thanks

ericl

The Stickit Inn.

http://ballydung.com/

humberklog

The Capstan (or Fallon's) on Dean Street is named after a brand of cigarette. The logo was to advertise the fag. I have heard it mentioned (by USA tourists) that it was named after the rotating quay bollards used to haul cargo. But nope, not that...fags is what.

Gavin "shels"

humberklog wrote: »

The Capstan (or Fallon's) on Dean Street is named after a brand of cigarette. The logo was to advertise the fag. I have heard it mentioned (by USA tourists) that it was named after the rotating quay bollards used to haul cargo. But nope, not that...fags is what.

People actually call it The Capstan! :eek: I've never heard it referred to that ever, only ever Fallons.

humberklog

Gavin shels wrote: »

People actually call it The Capstan! :eek: I've never heard it referred to that ever, only ever Fallons.

Yeah I worked at the back of it in '86 and it was called the Capstan much more so the Fallon's (was it even Fallon's then?). No bother getting served either and I was only 16, but loaded as the job was with Guinness. The brothers play a bit of music and that was one of their bands slots and it was always referred to as The Capstan.

Gavin "shels"

humberklog wrote: »

Yeah I worked at the back of it in '86 and it was called the Capstan much more so the Fallon's (was it even Fallon's then?). No bother getting served either and I was only 16, but loaded as the job was with Guinness. The brothers play a bit of music and that was one of their bands slots and it was always referred to as The Capstan.

Don't think it was Fallon's back then tbh, not sure if you ever noticed it but if you stand at the New Row side of it, it still has "The Capstan" written up there, you can't miss it.

stovelid

I always like the names The Bird Flanagan and the Cat and Cage.

humberklog

Gavin shels wrote: »

Don't think it was Fallon's back then tbh, not sure if you ever noticed it but if you stand at the New Row side of it, it still has "The Capstan" written up there, you can't miss it.

I know well. I about 90 seconds I'll be sitting inside of it!

dubtom

I'm not sure if I imagined it,but I was sure there was a pub around town somewhere (possibly dorset st??) called napper tandys. A search says there is one in the US ok. If it's not a pub here in Dublin is it a song?

humberklog

Gavin shels wrote: »

Don't think it was Fallon's back then tbh, not sure if you ever noticed it but if you stand at the New Row side of it, it still has "The Capstan" written up there, you can't miss it.

I know well. In about 90 seconds I'll be sitting inside of it! Make that 20min.

trad

The Long Stone on Tara St.

Before Sir John Rogerson and his buddies built the quays of Dublin there was a long stone nearby where ships tied up.

Also the Gravediggers is De Coursey Square beside Galsnevin Cemetery so named because of a hole in the wall through which the grave diggers were watered.

Also the Hole in the Wall, Blackhorse Avenue, self explanatory.

Tannylan

Grumpy Jack's on the Coombe
The Blind Ref Summerhill Parade:)
The Bloody Stream Howth Railway Station

Diarmsquid

1968 wrote: »

- Dicey Reillys, Harcourt Street.

Was Dicey Reilly a real person? Anyone know?

The Dubliner's had a song about her - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj0kyluZZps

dvpower

The Deadmans Inn.
The Goat Grill
Turks Head Chop House

JoeSchmoe

Des wrote: »

Interesting, thanks

the thing moat was a hill area which was flattened as the city developed, the rubble from the hill was used in the construction of Nassau St, and that's why Nassau st is at a higher lvel than Trinity below it. Not sure when this all happened though

Gavin "shels"

Tannylan wrote: »

Grumpy Jack's on the Coombe

... has ceased to be afaik, it's not Grumpy Jack's anymore.

spurious

dubtom wrote: »

I'm not sure if I imagined it,but I was sure there was a pub around town somewhere (possibly dorset st??) called napper tandys. A search says there is one in the US ok. If it's not a pub here in Dublin is it a song?

There are a few songs that mention Napper Tandy. He was a contemporary of Wolfe Tone and a bit of a 'character' by all accounts.

General Zod

James Napper Tandy was quite the character.

n February 1792, an allusion in debate by Toler, the attorney-general, to Tandy's personal ugliness, provoked him into sending a challenge. This was treated by the House of Commons as a breach of privilege, and a Speaker's warrant was issued for his arrest, which he managed to elude till its validity expired on the prorogation of parliament.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Napper_Tandy

General Zod

humberklog wrote: »

A pub opened on the grounds of the old Stardust and named itself Skelly's. Named after a highway robber that frequented Skelly's lane (the road it's on). This Skelly chap lent his name to the term scallywag. As Es's were often pronounced as A's back in them days. So from the man that had Skelly's Lane (and Skelly's pub) named after him also came the term Scallywag.

Having worked in the Texaco on the grounds of the Stardust I can reliably inform you there is no shortage of highway robbers in the vicinity still

Rusty Cogs 08

trad wrote: »

The Long Stone on Tara St.

Before Sir John Rogerson and his buddies built the quays of Dublin there was a long stone nearby where ships tied up.

Also the Gravediggers is De Coursey Square beside Galsnevin Cemetery so named because of a hole in the wall through which the grave diggers were watered.

Also the Hole in the Wall, Blackhorse Avenue, self explanatory.

The function of the long stone is not entirely clear. It may have been a memory stone, a mark of possession taken by the first settlers and perhaps raised to Thor or Freyja as was done in the Shetland and Orkney Islands. Olaus Magnus in his work, Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes and Vandals, mentions another purpose, he believes there are high stones, without inscriptions, set up to inform mariners that they may avoid shipwreck, and we find that the custom of placing pillar stones at the landing place was not peculiar to the vikings, it was also done in Kent at "Lapis tituli" or Folkstone, the landing place of the Saxons. Near the stone pillar at Steinness in the Orkney Islands, mounds were also found in which were found nine silver fibulae. Also located nearby in Steiness was another artificial mound of two feet in diameter and thirty six feet high, of a conical outline, occupying the centre of a raised circular platform, which formed a terrace around it. This was the Thingmount and within view was a circle of upright stones alleged to have been a temple dedicated to Thor, and a semicircle of similar stones, which was said to have been either a temple to Freyja or the moon. (Description of the Isles of Orkney, Rev. James Wallace, Edinburgh, 1693). A similar situation existed in Dublin with the Thingmount in close proximity to the long stone, the landing place and as we see below, mounds were also in evidence.

from here
http://www.geocities.com/heatheneurope/stein.html

loyatemu

spurious wrote: »

There are a few songs that mention Napper Tandy. He was a contemporary of Wolfe Tone and a bit of a 'character' by all accounts.

The Napper Tandy was on Bride St near Patricks Cathedral. It closed sometime in the mid-90s.

MediaTank

loyatemu wrote: »

The Napper Tandy was on Bride St near Patricks Cathedral. It closed sometime in the mid-90s.

Correct, a very dodgy place frequented by the residents of the homeless shelter nearby. It was demolished to make way for apartments in the late 90s.

MediaTank

humberklog wrote: »

The Headline (sound pub and happily re-opened) on Clanbrasil St. is simply named so because it was a slightly out of town beer shop for hacks (journos).

Nothing to do with the front pages of newspapers plastered on the walls - 'Man Lands On the Moon', 'JFK Dead' etc. At the gable end over the bookies you can see the original name of the pub - I'll check later, but Thomas Smyth rings a bell.

disssco

Gavin shels wrote: »

... has ceased to be afaik, it's not Grumpy Jack's anymore.

Changed name (and possibly ownership??) after somebody was shot dead in it.

humberklog

MediaTank wrote: »

Nothing to do with the front pages of newspapers plastered on the walls - 'Man Lands On the Moon', 'JFK Dead' etc. At the gable end over the bookies you can see the original name of the pub - I'll check later, but Thomas Smyth rings a bell.

It does indeed. Ithink you're right too about smith's. I'll be going by there in a moment myself. The news Headlines would be a tie-in to the clientel from which the name came.

Gavin "shels"

disssco wrote: »

Changed name (and possibly ownership??) after somebody was shot dead in it.

Yup, was known as "Happy Jacks" after the shooting back in Feb, it's called something different nowadays though.

admiralofthefleet

the morgue in templeogue

it has little model of a tram outside on the clock

Spiritoftheseventies

the Flowing tide abbey street. Upstairs called the high tide, downstairs the low tide.

MediaTank

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

the morgue in templeogue

it has little model of a tram outside on the clock

It used to be the Templeogue Inn but was known locally as the Morgue due to it's proximity to an undertakers who frequented the pub as did relatives of the deceased. AFAIK, it's on the site of a tram station, the line ran from the city center through Templelogue, Tallaght and on to Blessington.

Spiritoftheseventies

Thing Mote on suffolk street.

arybvtcw0eolkf

General Zod wrote: »

Having worked in the Texaco on the grounds of the Stardust I can reliably inform you there is no shortage of highway robbers in the vicinity still

Tescos on the grounds of the old Stardust disco?.

Spiritoftheseventies

Trace Howling Rapper wrote: »

Tescos on the grounds of the old Stardust disco?.

this forum for pub names.

General Zod

bayviewclose wrote: »

the Flowing tide abbey street. Upstairs called the high tide, downstairs the low tide.

That's called the Flow and Tide.


apologies, It's a Maxol Petrol station in front of the old Stardust building not a texaco.

bookerboy

The mucky Duck in Celbridge.

Spiritoftheseventies

bookerboy wrote: »

The mucky Duck in Celbridge.

thats in Kildare!

humberklog

General Zod wrote: »

That's called the Flow and Tide.


apologies, It's a Maxol Petrol station in front of the old Stardust building not a texaco.

That pub on Abbey St. is called The Flowing Tide.
There is no upstairs. Only ground level and basement. The bar in the basement is still called The Neptune Bar. The bar on the ground level is The Flowing Tide. There was a pub beside it called The High Tide. This is now re-named.