Renamed : The Battery Bar 201 Battery RoadArdeanCookstownBT80 0HY No two people can seem to agree about where exactly Ardboe begins or where it ends.There’s also confusion about whether it’s a village, a townland or simply a place on the map. Two things are certain, though. The famous high cross, the best of its kind […]

Address58 Church St, CookstownBT80 8QD Old Bushmills know their whiskey and no mistake, but they also know their pubs, so it’s no real surprise to find that their 1989 County Tyrone Bar of the Year is an outstanding pub. The Dunleath, so called because it is part of Lord Dunleath’s estate, is one of the […]

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 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; […]