Renamed: Thirsty J’s 86 Chapel StreetCookstownBT80 8QD Cookstown is known as the town with the longest, widest main street in all of Ireland, but perhaps not so well known is that a number of its pubs are conforming to this pattern and seem to stretch out far and wide in a very distinctive fashion. One […]
09. The Gaslight Inn
CLOSED 42 Loy StreetCookstownBT80 8PE Cookstown There are few words more evocative than the word gaslight – yellow haloed lights glimmering through the smog of northern industrial towns; faint forms fading and flickering to the snoring, purring globed gas burner, foggy turn of the century London streets with a hint of Jack the Ripper menace; […]
01. The Cohannon Inn
Address212 Ballynakilly Rd, Dungannon BT71 6HJ Attention all those husbands who want to go down to the pub on a Saturday afternoon when the wife wants them to visit the Garden Centre for some ideas for their own patch of greenery. Now they can do both at the same time, and treat the missus to […]
02. Tomney’s Bar
AddressThe Square, Moy,DungannonBT71 7SG Signposts and maps refer to it simply as Moy, but the friendly Tyrone folk for centuries have always called it The Moy. In the 18th and 19th centuries, ‘The Moy Fair’ was one of the great horse fairs in Europe. Marshall Ney, of Waterloo fame, bought his charger here, as did […]