Renamed : Abercorn Arms Inn Address44 Main St, Newtownstewart,OmaghBT78 4AA There’s gold in them thar hills up round Tyrone, and what better place to spend it than in The Golden Nugget Saloon, a bar so reminiscent of the Yukon goldfields that it comes as no surprise to learn that it was inspired by the film […]

Address10 Meeting St,MagherafeltBT45 6ED This delightful little bar in busy Magherafelt is named after Mary Scullion, the last to own it in a family that had it in its possession for the best part of two hundred years. Now, Mary may have been the last, but she was certainly far from the least because much […]

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 […]

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 […]