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The highest pub in Ireland

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  • #32
    Seaneh
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    Duracell Bunny wrote: »
    Do gimmicks like oldest pub in such a place, or highest pub etc really work? It just makes me think 'tourist trap' and avoid.

    Try get a seat in Seán's Bar any night between wednesday and sunday and see for yourself. Or go visit on a hot day in the summer. Place does be thronged with tourists coming in the back door off their boats.
    Duracell Bunny wrote: »
    Now if they were claiming "highest ratio of hedonistic female to males ratio in Ireland" that'd be different.

    Sounds like it's Kilkenny you're looking for.


  • #33
    wicklowwonder
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    crockholm wrote: »
    Some facts would also be nice...I had Always presumed that one of the pubs in roundwood was the highest pub.Perhaps it's time to put a G.P.S. or something on the pubs counter and get a definitive answer.

    The 3 men and the Lamb look like they're having a bit of fun at least.

    Kavanagh's Vartry House is the Highest Pub in the Highest Village in Ireland but Johnny Foxes is actually higher I think. Not sure about others. Think there another village trying to claim to be the highest in Ireland too over Roundwood. Somewhere in Cork or Kerry.


  • #34
    beach_walker
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    Ha, class video OP. I have a friend from that area who is always raving about that pub. He was distraught when it burned down.


  • #35
    wotzgoingon
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    wazky wrote: »
    Is Johnny Foxes not the highest or was that just a lie?

    It's a lie. I was in Johnny foxes and then I was in one in Kerry when I was a child. You would want to see the road to get up to it. I was shítting it in case the car went down the side of the mountain. Put it this way you would not want to be drink driving home after a night out if you valued your life.


  • #36
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Put it this way you would not want to be drink driving home after a night out if you valued your life.

    That goes for ANY pub!


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  • #37
    wotzgoingon
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    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    That goes for ANY pub!

    Trust me if you seen where this pub was. I often drove drunk, no problem. Even when sober you have to watch where your going on this road.


  • #38
    Poor Uncle Tom
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    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    Trust me...... I often drove drunk,

    I think not.....


  • #39
    wotzgoingon
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    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    I think not.....

    Well I haven't drunk drove for a few years as I don't even drink anymore.


  • #40
    cloud493
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    It's a lie.

    Dublanders like to like about these sorts of things. They also claim to have the oldest bar in Ireland (Brazen Head) which is also a lie.

    Do you have something against dublin or?


  • #41
    retalivity
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    This came up a few years ago and I looked it up on google maps with the terrain counter on. The one in the video is highest, followed by roundwood and then ponderosa in Derry iirc.
    Johnnie foxes isnt even close


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  • #42
    FrStone
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    I have to say I find it hilarious that the city slickers can't understand the lads in the video. They have a strong accent alright but for a person born and raised in Ireland not to be able to understand them is mad!


  • #43
    dmc17
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    I didn't get a word the second fellow said :D



  • #44
    smallgarden
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    We drove up to it last summer, up a dodgy road for ages for it to be closed!


  • #45
    wotzgoingon
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    FrStone wrote: »
    I have to say I find it hilarious that the city slickers can't understand the lads in the video. They have a strong accent alright but for a person born and raised in Ireland not to be able to understand them is mad!

    I live in the country and haven't a clue what they are on about. I can make out a few words and then they laugh, that's about it.


  • #46
    eoins23456
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    Seaneh wrote: »
    It's a lie.

    Dublanders like to like about these sorts of things. They also claim to have the oldest bar in Ireland (Brazen Head) which is also a lie.

    What's the oldest pub ?


  • #47
    wicklowwonder
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    eoins23456 wrote: »
    What's the oldest pub ?

    Some place in Athlone I think. Guinness record people think it could be oldest in world.


  • #48
    Fescue
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    wicklowwonder wrote: »
    Some place in Athlone I think. Guinness record people think it could be oldest in world.

    Sean's bar in Athlone. Despite being popular with tourists, its actually a great pub. Cracking Guinness and atmosphere.


  • #49
    crockholm
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    With a Little googling and a dash of copying,I got the following (no sources,just what Another poster had posted on a different forum)


    Top of Coom-Cork/Kerry border-1033 ft asl

    Ponderosa-Derry-947 ft asl

    Johnny Foxes-Dublin/Wicklow- 910 ft asl


  • #50
    Northern Monkey
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    orangesoda wrote: »
    highest in hibernia was in derry i thought

    http://itoccuredtome.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/pondarosa.jpg

    Our family used to own that pub. It was a thatched cottage back then, but was knocked down with that built in its place by its new owners. It's closed at the minute for renovation, but I think it is being turned into a restaurant/truck stop.


  • #51
    Balmed Out
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    Oldest pub is a toughy as it depends on how you judge it.
    Is it still the oldest if it started as a pub became a butchers, a pub, a courthouse and back to a pub?
    If its always been a pub but didnt originally have a license?
    If its always been a pub but closed for a few years at some stage?

    The continually licensed oldest I think is Grace Neils in Down, another contender the gateway/realt dearg in Cork closed a couple of years ago.


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  • #52
    Graces7
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    wotzgoingon wrote: »
    It's a lie. I was in Johnny foxes and then I was in one in Kerry when I was a child. You would want to see the road to get up to it. I was shítting it in case the car went down the side of the mountain. Put it this way you would not want to be drink driving home after a night out if you valued your life.

    was going to mention the kerry one. drove that road in my previous car when the shock absorbers had gone....painful. ..


  • #53
    RikkFlair
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Nice lamb.

    He's got 2 more hidden in his sideburns.


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