Remotest pub in Ireland

Sh1tbag OToole · 29-12-2014 08:54PM #1

What is the remotest pub in Ireland? I know it is hard to define remote as you could have a pub sitting along a main road that is further away from the next pub than any other pub in the country but you could just drive up to it and thats' not very exciting.

The remotest pub I have been to is the one on Inis Meain. There is only one pub on that island or at least there was that time. The problem with a lot of these fecking islands is they have multiple pubs

A girlie once told me of a man near Holycross who had a pub half way up a mountain, inaccessible by car, only opened one day a week to keep his license but I have no idea where that pub is and the girlie is pretending to be dead to me. So unless a kind boardsie tells me where this pub is I'll never find out.

Anyone know of any super remote pubs in Ireland (or elsewhere if you have an interesting tale to tell)?

tomwaterford · 29-12-2014 08:58PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

What is the remotest pub in Ireland? I know it is hard to define remote as you could have a pub sitting along a main road that is further away from the next pub than any other pub in the country but you could just drive up to it and thats' not very exciting.

The remotest pub I have been to is the one on Inis Meain. There is only one pub on that island or at least there was that time. The problem with a lot of these fecking islands is they have multiple pubs

A girlie once told me of a man near Holycross who had a pub half way up a mountain, inaccessible by car, only opened one day a week to keep his license but I have no idea where that pub is and the girlie is pretending to be dead to me. So unless a kind boardsie tells me where this pub is I'll never find out.

Anyone know of any super remote pubs in Ireland (or elsewhere if you have an interesting tale to tell)?

Is that holycross in co tipperary

Sh1tbag OToole · 29-12-2014 09:01PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Is that holycross in co tipperary

Tis boi

tomwaterford · 29-12-2014 09:08PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Tis boi

I may have been there before....got a bus from limerick to a lim v Waterford match Years ago with friends going to ul....cant rightly remember the way though....it was. Up a long narrow boreen through think it was two farmyards (I think)....had to walk the last bit....but you'd have got a car up if you were sober....twoz rough enough where I was and think they referred to it as a sheebean or something......im sure someone from tipp will be along soon to give better description

The Bould Rabbit · 29-12-2014 09:09PM

Boffin.

kylith · 29-12-2014 09:17PM

The one on Tory is pretty remote.

lennyloulou · 29-12-2014 09:25PM

u mean Jim O the Mills , Upperchurch, Thurles

Ten of Swords · 29-12-2014 09:40PM

Definitely Tory Island, by a long margin!

L.Jenkins · 29-12-2014 09:44PM

Drove through what could hardly be called a village with a single pub near the County Clare border past Portumna in the absolute ársehole of nowhere.

Sh1tbag OToole · 29-12-2014 09:53PM

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Definitely Tory Island, by a long margin!

On Tory you have the social club and the hotel

SeaFields · 29-12-2014 09:56PM

This one! Next pint New York...

It's actually not a pub but an old farm house that was painted up for a Guinness ad a few years back. Its on Valentia Island, Co Kerry

Fairly remote all the same.

afatbollix · 29-12-2014 09:58PM

Theres a pub in Scotland that has no road to it and the only way in and out is either a 18 mile hike over the mountains or the once a day ferry.

Sh1tbag OToole · 29-12-2014 10:00PM

SeaFields wrote: »

This one! Next pint New York...

It's actually not a pub but an old farm house that was painted up for a Guinness ad a few years back. Its on Valentia Island, Co Kerry

Fairly remote all the same.

Are there other pubs on Valentia? Definitely worth a visit though

HeidiHeidi · 29-12-2014 10:01PM

kylith wrote: »

The one on Tory is pretty remote.

Ten of Swords wrote: »

Definitely Tory Island, by a long margin!

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

On Tory you have the social club and the hotel

Another vote for Tory.

The hotel was closed last I heard - has it re-opened in the last few years?

Anyway, the social club only opens at about 1am, so hardly counts as a pub in the usual sense

Sunnyisland · 29-12-2014 10:01PM

afatbollix wrote: »

Theres a pub in Scotland that has no road to it and the only way in and out is either a huge hike over the mountains or the once a day ferry.[/QUOT

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Sir Osis of Liver. · 29-12-2014 10:03PM

My local has one for the skybox and one each for the 3 flatscreens.

Its totally confusing,they should get a One4all.

Possibly the remotest pub in Ireland.

SeaFields · 29-12-2014 10:04PM

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

Are there other pubs on Valentia? Definitely worth a visit though

Yeah there are a couple in the village there, Knightstown. The is one there (cant think of the name now) that has a beer garden looking back to the mainland onto Cahersiveen town across the water. It's a gorgeous place for a pint of a summers evening.

Sh1tbag OToole · 29-12-2014 10:06PM

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Another vote for Tory.

The hotel was closed last I heard - has it re-opened in the last few years?

Anyway, the social club only opens at about 1am, so hardly counts as a pub in the usual sense

Last time I was there was 2012. The hotel is a hotel, so also hardly a pub. Any one-pub islands with pubs that are just pubs? I'm being very awkward now mainly because I want to go to a very remote pub that I havn't been to already.

Sh1tbag OToole · 29-12-2014 10:07PM

realies wrote: »

afatbollix wrote: »

Theres a pub in Scotland that has no road to it and the only way in and out is either a huge hike over the mountains or the once a day ferry.[/QUOT

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Sure we can claim Scotland now since they only cost the Brits money and they're too wimpy to go it alone

The Peanut · 29-12-2014 10:10PM

Many years ago I was out in Sherkin Island for a 3 day science trip from college. The only pub was the Jolly Roger. Glorious weather and we walked from the hostel at one side of the island to and from the pub at the other side; one route. The pub didn't close until very, very late and on the way back many of my class mates were sleeping in various spots along the route. Others just slept on the grass outside the hostel.

There was hardly anyone else on the island except drunken science students. Very surreal but hilariously brilliant time. Great memories.

Sh1tbag OToole · 29-12-2014 10:40PM

The Peanut wrote: »

Many years ago I was out in Sherkin Island for a 3 day science trip from college. The only pub was the Jolly Roger. Glorious weather and we walked from the hostel at one side of the island to and from the pub at the other side; one route. The pub didn't close until very, very late and on the way back many of my class mates were sleeping in various spots along the route. Others just slept on the grass outside the hostel.

There was hardly anyone else on the island except drunken science students. Very surreal but hilariously brilliant time. Great memories.

One for the list!

Mammanabammana · 29-12-2014 11:05PM

SeaFields wrote: »

This one! Next pint New York...

It's actually not a pub but an old farm house that was painted up for a Guinness ad a few years back. Its on Valentia Island, Co Kerry

Fairly remote all the same.

Or this one.

It too is not a pub but it sure as hell is remote! I'm sure if I have a look around I can find other remote things that are not pubs to put in this thread about remote pubs.

neil_hosey · 29-12-2014 11:15PM

theres a great one on the Beara peninsula near kilmackillogue

here:

https://www.google.ie/maps/@51.7804617,-9.8057472,3a,75y,332.08h,73.52t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sXllh0qB0Zs9UCA7RX4MqcA!2e0?hl=en

Was cycling around Beara and it was like a feckin oasis after only 30km cycle from kenmare

hfallada · 29-12-2014 11:19PM

Ellen pub in sligo is pretty middle of no where. When my parents visited 20 years ago. It was a house of 3 rooms which was the entire bar. The toilet were outside in the field of the pub. People travelled all the way from Sligo town to it.

http://www.mypois.ie/mpoi.php?n=ellen%27s-pub&i=140059

I seen it myself this week and thought it was a joke as its so remote.

Also they only had warm Guinness 20 years ago

Seamus1964 · 30-12-2014 10:54AM

Ellen pub - what's the opening hours?

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/85053761.jpg

https://www.google.ie/maps/@54.3545017,-8.6454386,3a,75y,359.07h,82.28t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sz7QmRvnFyxbk-ic7bmgiOQ!2e0

Sh1tbag OToole · 30-12-2014 06:03PM

hfallada wrote: »

Ellen pub in sligo is pretty middle of no where. When my parents visited 20 years ago. It was a house of 3 rooms which was the entire bar. The toilet were outside in the field of the pub. People travelled all the way from Sligo town to it.

http://www.mypois.ie/mpoi.php?n=ellen%27s-pub&i=140059

I seen it myself this week and thought it was a joke as its so remote.

Also they only had warm Guinness 20 years ago

Thx. I'll go there next year if I get a chance

Stroke Politics · 30-12-2014 06:14PM

Itzy wrote: »

Drove through what could hardly be called a village with a single pub near the County Clare border past Portumna in the absolute ársehole off nowhere.

That part of nowhere has 2 pubs! Was it The International Bar in Gurteeny or Cannings?

Not too remote, but very out of the way is Houghs in Lorrha, Co Tipp. Only open on Sat nites, bit of an inherited hobby for a very nice man who farmed full time. Not sure if he's still there, last time I was there had a jug of room temperature draught Guinness as he only has 8 glasses and I happened to be the 9th person in there...

mister gullible · 30-12-2014 06:30PM

Was in Tyrellspass one afternoon a couple of years ago and went into the local pub. Asked for a cup of coffee and was told 'we don't do food on Wednesdays'.
That felt pretty remote from the modern world.

Sh1tbag OToole · 30-12-2014 06:35PM

mister gullible wrote: »

Was in Tyrellspass one afternoon a couple of years ago and went into the local pub. Asked for a cup of coffee and was told 'we don't do food on Wednesdays'.
That felt pretty remote from the modern world.

Tis between a frickin' N road and motorway, the only thing remote about it is that it sounds like the name of a place in Game of Thrones

The Hill Billy · 30-12-2014 06:36PM

The Bould Rabbit wrote: »

Boffin.

Galway or Donegal? The Galway island has a few bars - so not that remote. Inishturk on the other hand would have a shebeen that's fairly remote.

Sh1tbag OToole · 30-12-2014 07:20PM

The Hill Billy wrote: »

Galway or Donegal? The Galway island has a few bars - so not that remote. Inishturk on the other hand would have a shebeen that's fairly remote.

I been meaning to visit Inishturk. Hope the shebeen will be still running when I get there

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