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 […]

CLOSED – 2006 On the outskirts of Coleraine, on the Castleroe Road, sits one of Ulster’s oldest country inns, the famous, almost legendary, Salmon Leap, a hostelry whose site first attracted man in Stone Age times some 10,000 years ago, and whose reputation for quality, value and service still attracts man today. The exact spot […]

CLOSED/Demolished – 2021 Address125-135 Strand Road,Derry, Londonderry BT48 7PA Notes: you can witness the demolition on Streetview in 2021 Everybody knows that it was the wise man who built his house on the rock, so presumably the proprietor of Cole’s Bar on the Strand can claim his share of wisdom, because this was formerly the […]

Address : 142 Lecky Rd,LondonderryBT48 6NP Every city has its sportsman’s bar, one long associated with the great sporting figures and occasions of yesterday and today, somewhere to rub elbows with a few of the major names of the sporting world.Derry is doubly fortunate in this respect because the Bluebell Bar in the Bogside not […]