Interesting Dublin pub names

admiralofthefleet

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

The Stone Boat - Crumlin.

the four roads is just up the road as well

Degsy

Trace Howling Rapper wrote: »

Sounds like Humberklog love's every bleed'n pub!.

I'll have to drag him out to Campions for a gargle, sorry nothing special about the name. But its got to be one of the best pubs in Dublin, 'bar none!.

Actually I've often thought the bar & its customers would be a good photo op for him or Fijitas.

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I'm originally from donaghmede.When i was a kid that whole area was countryside and campions was what seemed like a half-day hike through the cornfields from the end of my road.
We'd get there and order lemonade and it was the countryside!
When i got older we used to shoot over the fields that is now clare hall and grattan lodge.

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humberklog wrote: »

I was out with Fafitas after the After Hours do the other week and he said he'd a cracking night so I was half thinking of popping in to the one on the 18th.

I was at the AH beer's too!, although fleetingly.

Tbh, I don't do the whole boards beer's thing well at all.

I've often thought about taking the camera with me on a visit to Campions, I dare say it hasn't been touched in years - and certainly not the bar & snug (its still got a snug, I take my dogs into it for a stiff one on occasion!).

Of course, I'll be there in all my Dublin finery after the Dublin -V- Kildare game this Sunday if anyone's about.

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humberklog

Trace Howling Rapper wrote: »

I was at the AH beer's too!, although fleetingly.

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Ooops, I meant I met fajitas at an exhibition a few days after that beers and he said it was good. Nothing to be afraid of. I wasn't at it myself.

WindSock

Degsy wrote: »

I'm originally from donaghmede.When i was a kid that whole area was countryside and campions was what seemed like a half-day hike through the cornfields from the end of my road.
We'd get there and order lemonade and it was the countryside!
When i got older we used to shoot over the fields that is now clare hall and grattan lodge.

.....Remembering when it was all fields, eh?

I must pop in there and have a pint at some stage. I have driven past it many a time wondering what it is like. I like the way there is a headstone shop right next door and a large graveyard just across the road, and nothing else.

humberklog

I've photographed inside the headstone shop only a few month back. They were really helpful too. Had pints in Camps afterwards. Got a few funny looks but that was only because of the photo shoot.

Gavin "shels"

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

how about a dublin city forum beers?

That could work, have it in the Lower Deck.:pac:

Degsy

The 18th July is a beers event in Karma fishamble st.a dublin venue of some history..come on dubliners..hear the call!

Hackman

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

The Stone Boat - Crumlin.

The Bird Flanagan - named after a Dublin joker of the 19th century

I think the Stone Boat is a reference to a millrace on the river Poddle, which flows close to the area where the pub is. Can anyone here clarify this?

MediaTank

humberklog wrote: »

Thomas Keogh as it works out.

Absolutely, 'Family Grocer' too.

Gavin "shels"

Hackman wrote: »

I think the Stone Boat is a reference to a millrace on the river Poddle, which flows close to the area where the pub is. Can anyone here clarify this?

Something like that according to my mate who lives up that neck of the woods.

General Zod

Gavin shels wrote: »

That could work, have it in the Lower Deck.:pac:

Or the Low Tide!

sagat

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).

Always wondered why it was called that, the Headline was an old haunt of mine 9 or 10 years ago great pub and sorely missed from across the seas.

Gavin "shels"

Gavin shels wrote: »

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

Passed it there an hour ago and Grumpy Jacks is now known as Shanahan's, all done up on the outside now aswell.

boneless

Gavin shels wrote: »

Passed it there an hour ago and Grumpy Jacks is now known as Shanahan's, all done up on the outside now aswell.

Reminds me of how many changes of name the Green Lizard on St. Francis Street went through after the shooting there....

Gavin "shels"

boneless wrote: »

Reminds me of how many changes of name the Green Lizard on St. Francis Street went through after the shooting there....

Well in all fairness it always had a bad name before the shooting as it was a suspected IRA or INLA bar (can't remember which), sure that's why after the last shooting the owner done a runner supposely, as the guards, etc... started investigating that line of enquiry.

boneless

Gavin shels wrote: »

Well in all fairness it always had a bad name before the shooting as it was a suspected IRA or INLA bar (can't remember which), sure that's why after the last shooting the owner done a runner supposely, as the guards, etc... started investigating that line of enquiry.

That's true...

I remember having pints in the old Cosy Bar before in became Grumpy Jacks .....

MYTOTE

Degsy wrote: »

I'm originally from donaghmede.When i was a kid that whole area was countryside and campions was what seemed like a half-day hike through the cornfields from the end of my road.
We'd get there and order lemonade and it was the countryside!
When i got older we used to shoot over the fields that is now clare hall and grattan lodge.

Did you not get the Red lemonade (savage smith)and tayto thrown in the window of the Ford Escort across the road from the Dollymount house?

gversey

The Lough inn....its in Loughlistown.

admiralofthefleet

Gavin shels wrote: »

That could work, have it in the Lower Deck.:pac:

indeed, liam would love that:D

Degsy

MYTOTE wrote: »

Did you not get the Red lemonade (savage smith)and tayto thrown in the window of the Ford Escort across the road from the Dollymount house?

Nope,i was raised in Pebble Beach on a high stool!
We didnt have an escort untill much later

Gran Hermano

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

the morgue in templeogue

it has little model of a tram outside on the clock

The Morgue got it's name as back in the days when the trams went from
Terenure to Blessington (1880s to 1930s) any bodies from accidents
along the tracks in what was then a rural part of Dublin were kept
in the actual inn (often overnight) before transportation back to the city
morgue. The tram ran pretty close to the road near Templeogue village
so accidents were rather common.

Gavin "shels"

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

indeed, liam would love that:D

I can just imagine his face if 30 or so of us walked in.:D

DO'Carlo/Wex

New-enough poster but from my time up there, some odd pub names the history behind which I never knew are:

The Gondola (also Dowlings) in Newcastle.

Polly Hops just outside Newcastle (gone now, burnt down!).

The Lock and Key (now re-named The Waterside) in Clondalkin.

The Laurels also in Clon (the area around it maybe?).

The Central (presumbly because it was? Since re-named twice, 1nce as Baroque, now as Village Inn)

Finches in Neilstown.

The Swallows in Clondalikin (the area around it maybe?)

Anyone shed any light on the backgrounds to the names? Or any others in the Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart, Tallaght, Lucan & Clondalkin areas?

Twee.

The Lock and Key is beside a lough and a quay!

DO'Carlo/Wex

That maketh sense so. T'Was a fine pub then & is now under its' new name/mgmnt.
Always thought it was LOCK AND KEY & not LOUGH AND QUAY!
How silly!
Any other background to any other local pubs in West County Dublin that I've mentioned/alluded to?

Twee.

No it IS the Lock and Key, but it's a "funny" play on words

humberklog

Surely it's in reference to the canal lock (for that is the way it is written) and the key (for that is the way that that peice of equipment is also written) to open the canal lock.
The 'lock' being the section that rises/falls the canal. The 'key' being a large spindle that rises the bolts from the bed and allows the user to swing open the water gates.

And in this case the Lock in question is the 9th lock on the Grand Canal.

Twee where is there a lough in Clondalkin?

boneless

humberklog wrote: »

Surely it's in reference to the canal lock (for that is the way it is written) and the key (for that is the way that that peice of equipment is also written) to open the canal lock.
The 'lock' being the section that rises/falls the canal. The 'key' being a large spindle that rises the bolts from the bed and allows the user to swing open the water gates.

And in this case the Lock in question is the 9th lock on the Grand Canal.

Twee where is there a lough in Clondalkin?

I seem to remember that the Lock and Key was just called The Ninth Lock at one stage ... or was it just how us postal workers referred to it?

MediaTank

humberklog wrote: »

Surely it's in reference to the canal lock (for that is the way it is written) and the key (for that is the way that that peice of equipment is also written) to open the canal lock.
The 'lock' being the section that rises/falls the canal. The 'key' being a large spindle that rises the bolts from the bed and allows the user to swing open the water gates.

Not to threadjack, but my understanding is that the key is just that - a tool to turn the spindle to open/close the sluice gates into the lock. There are no bolts AFAIK in a lock gate, it's the water pressure that keeps the gate closed. Equalizing the water level via the sluice gates allows the gates to be pushed open. The keys were kept by lock keepers whose house were beside the gates. Lot's of them on the city end of the Grand Canal for example at Baggot St., Leeson St. etc.