Renamed : Lanyon Hall23 Molesworth St,CookstownBT80 8NX Ancient Cookstown prophecy: “And the horse shall grow out of the dog and the palace shall be eaten by the cat.” To decipher this cryptic, prophetic riddle you need to go to Molesworth Street in the town, and all will be clear because there you will enter the […]
10. The Conway Inn
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; […]
08.The Village Inn
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 […]