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; […]
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 […]
11. The Black Horse
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 […]
05. Dunowen Inn
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 […]