85 Old Mountfield Rd Killyclogher Do you remember Dr. Who’s Tardis, the phonebox that miraculously was vast in its interior? Well, imagine beside a lovely little thatch cottage, a small country pub – The Village Inn – which amazingly opens up Tardis-fashion inside, to disclose a bar, a lounge bar, a large conservatory, a dance […]

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; […]

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 […]

Closed Address41 Market SquareDungannon, Northern Ireland NotesI’m not sure of the specific location of the former pub or when it was closed, This is another Bushmills Bar of the Year – this time the 1987 winner. When we heard of it by name, we thought perhaps it was one of those places that have whimsical […]