Address : 116 Hillhead Rd,Castledawson, MagherafeltBT45 8ET If you believe that the thatched cottage and half door are now only to be seen in folk museums, then think again. The Thatch Bar, near Castledawson, retains all the mood and charm of yesteryear’s Irish cottage pub.The building goes back well over a century and was, as […]

Renamed : The Belfray County InnAddress :171 Glenshane Rd, The Cross,LondonderryBT47 3EN

CLOSED Renamed: The Corner HouseAddress:2 Main Street, Stonard St,Moneymore,MagherafeltBT45 7PN Moneymore is a typical Plantation town. It owes its existence and development to the London Drapers’ Company, which completed a distinguished group of buildings in 1819, including a market house, a coach arch, a dispensary and the subject of this piece, a hotel. Today that […]

Still known locally as Bertha’s, or Love’s Bar in memory of the Love family, who owned it for generations, the Castlerock Bar actually began life as a six-bedroom hotel back somewhere between 1830 and 1840.Today it’s a small, intimate, cellar bar at the bottom of a fine three-storey house which sits right beside the golf […]