Pubs that are no more in Cork

[SoundMan]

Is that street called Robert Street? I never knew that before

Yup - Robert Morgan from Pana to the Mall.

Never remember there being a pub down there though. Must have predated Penny's I guess.

 

[SoundMan]

On a brighter note The Southern Star (up the hill from Paddy The Farmers) is reopening tomorrow!!!


It was closed for what seemed like over a year and will be of some comfort to local socialisers who'd seen the three pubs at or very near that cross-road with Capwell, The Southern Star, The Lions Den, and The Bridge Inn, all close in recent years. The Glenanaar in that general area is also gone of course.

Walked past the Southern Star yesterday and it looks like some of the workmen who'd been toiling there for the last few weeks were having an early sup. Hopefully this will be a complete success for the guys who've reopened it, and from first glance anyway it looks to have been tastefully refurbished.

Maintained much of the old-look but much cleaner and brighter and a bit more minimalist. Might even stop in there for a quart myself over the weekend.

 

[Harry Boyle]

Remember a pub across the road from where Russell's bookstore is/was as a kid in Olly Plunkett St and tractors outside it

 

[SoundMan]

Remember a pub across the road from where Russell's bookstore is/was as a kid in Olly Plunkett St and tractors outside it

The only one I can think of was on the other corner of OPS and Marlboro Street (south) - I think it was the Plough and The Stars, shortened to The Plough. If memory serves (it would have closed in the 1970s I think) it was more of a club. The door wasn't open but punters (mainly from the Mall as I recall) would let themselves in by key during the afternoon.

A bit like The Grocers albeit not up a very long stairs.

 

[Harry Boyle]

The only one I can think of was on the other corner of OPS and Marlboro Street (south) - I think it was the Plough and The Stars, shortened to The Plough. If memory serves (it would have closed in the 1970s I think) it was more of a club. The door wasn't open but punters (mainly from the Mall as I recall) would let themselves in by key during the afternoon.

A bit like The Grocers albeit not up a very long stairs.

That's the one, looked very private like a gentleman's club for farmers

 

[jimmym]

Yup - Robert Morgan from Pana to the Mall.

Never remember there being a pub down there though. Must have predated Penny's I guess.

Could be where the tattoo place is now, was once a cobblers.

 

[SoundMan]

That's the one, looked very private like a gentleman's club for farmers

Always seemed to be guys in suits and ties back in the 60s and 70s who looked more like bankers and brokers rather than farmers, even gentlemen farmers, to me

 

[Harry Boyle]

Always seemed to be guys in suits and ties back in the 60s and 70s who looked more like bankers and brokers rather than farmers, even gentlemen farmers, to me

Remember someone saying it's where the well off farmers used go.

 

[SoundMan]

Remember someone saying it's where the well off farmers used go.

Those c**ts get everywhere

 

[Lee Bushwacker]

Remember someone saying it's where the well off farmers used go.

I always thought that they used to spend their "dole" money down the dog track!