What survives in the archive
The trace is woven through ordinary plans and personal timelines: the kind of passing mention that shows a pub had a place in people's routes, nights out and remembered occasions.
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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.
Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref N1879 as a Publican's Ordinary Railway Refreshment Rooms Licence for THE BLOODY STREAM at RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOM, HOWTH RAILWAY/DART STATION, 78 HOWTH ROAD in CO. DUBLIN with HOWTH RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOMS LIMITED as licensee.[1]
In a 2015 Irish Times Barfly column, Gary Quinn wrote that Michael JF Wright owned The Bloody Stream and had taken a derelict building in 1995 and turned it into the bar.[2]
An Irish Times walk article described The Bloody Stream as the old railway station, now a pub, and linked the name to a 12th-century Norman defeat of the Vikings of Howth.[3]
Community memory
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What survives in the archive
The trace is woven through ordinary plans and personal timelines: the kind of passing mention that shows a pub had a place in people's routes, nights out and remembered occasions.
Archive time depth
same-year archive trace across 1 dated Boards.ie archive lead.
Archive profile
The Bloody Stream shows up in the ordinary routes of pre-2026 internet memory: plans, occasions, recommendations or recollections. That is useful because pub history often starts in small passing mentions before fuller stories are found.
Archive strength
Single archive trace
Memory shape
Life events and old memories
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Life events
A single archive signal suggests the pub appears in personal timelines, occasions, plans or memories people carried forward.
Old memories
A single archive signal contains pre-2026 traces of people looking back, recommending, comparing or remembering this pub.
Archive source trail
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2023Community memoryScore 7
Boards.ie archive trace
A pre-2026 Boards.ie discussion leaves a preliminary community-memory trace for The Bloody Stream, around life events and old memories. PubHub treats this as a single archive signal: useful for memory-page curation, not as verified fact.
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