Dungeon Bar, Ballygally Castle, Ballygally [Photo: Ballygally Castle, Ballygally.] You’ve met often enough the type of person who is always to be found ‘hanging about the bar.’ In the case of the Dungeon Bar, Ballygally, the phrase has a whole new literal meaning, and the iron wrist-fetters are still there on the walls to prove […]
22-26 The Square, Ballyclare BT39 9BB November 1989 saw the completion of a massive refurbishment job at the Grange. This probably is one of the most ultra modern bars I have visited in my travels, and was designed by Ferguson and Wheeler. Above the old premises, used to be the words “W.H. Grange’s Spirit Vaults.” […]
Stewartstown Road, Dunmurry, Belfast BT17 0AW This is a new Licence granted in 1984 to Laurence Catney (brother of Pat whom we will meet at the Kitchen Bar). It’s very much a large open plan Bar with a high roof divided into different sections. The snooker section is to the left, the darts on the […]
6-8 High St, Antrim St, Carrickfergus BT38 7AF Dobbins Inn Hotel, Carrickfergus. Carrickfergus visitors ‘randy for antique’ usually head straight for the castle, but anyone wanting a whiff of history might equally well cross the street to Dobbin’s Inn Hotel, an Elizabethan tower house which comes complete with resident ghost. The building appears on a […]
