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THE OLD STILL Mapped

DISTILLERY HOUSE, BANDON, Cork

AddressDISTILLERY HOUSE, BANDON
CountyCork
PlaceBandon
Licence refCXP891

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What the archives say

Independent reporting and heritage records on this pub, drawn from a curated list of Irish news outlets, Revenue Commissioners, NIAH, and the Dictionary of Irish Architects. Every claim links to its primary source.

Cultural mentions

Irish Independent local coverage of Bandon's Hamilton High School notes that the school once moved into rooms over The Old Still pub [1].

Sources  (1)
  1. Irish Independent / Cork local coverage · "Skipper of Hamilton High likes to give pupils the space to learn" · 2003-09-06

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Local notes

Earlier uses

Irish Independent local coverage of Bandon's Hamilton High School notes that the school once moved into rooms over The Old Still pub.

Community memory

Memory archive

Forum and community traces are labelled separately from verified history. They are starting points for memory-page curation and can be corrected or expanded.

Archive trail 2 source leads 2 candidate signals

What survives in the archive

The archive reads less like a single fact and more like a room coming into focus: regulars, roles, habits and social texture are visible, but named stories stay out until a stronger source review supports them.

Remembered room

Characters without exposing private people

The old forum trail does not yet give PubHub a publishable named story. It gives something more delicate: a multi-source archive trail where the pub appears as a remembered room, with social texture, habits, roles and passing local colour visible around the edges. The current public layer is built from 2 linked source leads.

People

Regulars and characters stay anonymised here; the page records atmosphere before identity.

Room feel

The useful signal is social texture: habits, roles, routes, occasions and the way the place lived in memory.

Next pass

Keep people anonymous; look for corroborated room-memory sources before naming anyone.

This is an artistic archive reading, not a verified claim about named individuals. Stronger stories need better sourcing, local correction and editorial review.

Archive time depth

2009

same-year archive trace across 2 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

2009

Archive profile

A remembered room, carefully anonymised

The Old Still has a multi-source archive trail where the old archive points toward social texture: regulars, habits, roles, atmosphere and remembered room feel. The public page keeps this as anonymous room memory until source review supports more specific storytelling.

Archive strength

Multi-source archive trail

Memory shape

Lively pub memories, old memories, story leads and regulars and room character

Editorial next step

Keep people anonymous; look for corroborated room-memory sources before naming anyone.

No raw forum excerpts or named private-person claims are published from this automated profile.

Lively memories

The archive points toward lively pub memories. PubHub keeps this general unless a source review can safely support more detail.

Old memories

The archive contains pre-2026 traces of people looking back, recommending, comparing or remembering this pub.

Story leads

The archive contains fragments that look like leads for fuller stories once reviewed by an editor.

Regulars and room character

The archive points toward the pub as a remembered room of regulars, roles, habits and social texture. PubHub keeps this anonymised until a fuller source review supports named stories.

Archive source trail

Where this memory trace comes from

These are linked Boards.ie leads from pre-2026 discussion. PubHub shows the trail and the review category, but does not publish raw excerpts or private-person claims from automated matching.

  1. 1
    Guinness Dark Lager

    2009Community memoryScore 9

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Boards.ie archive trace

Pre-2026 Boards.ie discussion leaves a community-memory trail for The Old Still, especially around lively pub memories, old memories, story leads and regulars and room character. PubHub treats this as an archive signal: useful for memory-page curation, not as verified fact.

Source links

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