Renamed: Platform/Stokers HaltAddress:29 Hibernia StreetHolywoodCounty DownBT18 9JE By far the best theme bar we have seen, this was formerly the Railway Bar, and still is in everything but name, because its design is perfectly like that of a railway station. Even the outside front door is shaped like a railway carriage, and as you enter, […]

Address2 Kildare St, Ardglass,Downpatrick BT30 7TR Just a few doors down from the Ardglass Arms is The Old Commercial Bar, a gleaming white and black building with colourful window boxes. The small window above the entrance door has the name Mulheron’s Hotel on it. Joe Mulheron, who married Agnes Magee, was the grandfather of the […]

ClosedPreviously: St. Albans Arms HotelAddress8 Kildare St., Ardglass Ardglass is undoubtedly a very small town with a great seafaring past. In mediaeval times, it was the busiest sea port in Ulster, and did a brisk wine trade with France. The Ardglass Arms has been a very popular inn since it opened for business way back […]

ClosedAddress14 Church StreetDownpatrickBT30 6EJ History is etched in every stone and timber of the De Courcy Arms in Downpatrick’s Church Street. The inn bears the arms of the illustrious Norman knight, John de Courcy, who established his reign as Earl of Ulster in Downpatrick in 1177, and governed until 1203. He built a stately abbey […]