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COOLBANAGHER, CHURCH ROAD, SWORDS, Dublin

AddressCOOLBANAGHER, CHURCH ROAD, SWORDS
CountyDublin
PlaceSwords
EircodeK67 Y935
Phone+353 1 8404 160
Websitetheoldschoolhouse.ie
Opening hoursMo-Sa 12:00-24:30; Su 12:00-23:00
Licence refN2783
🚬 Smoking area

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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref N2783 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE at COOLBANAGHER, CHURCH ROAD, SWORDS in CO. DUBLIN with RIVERWOOD INVESTMENTS LIMITED as licensee.[1]

Irish Independent reported in 2004 that the proprietors of the Old Schoolhouse Restaurant on Well Road in Swords were seeking permission for a change of use from restaurant to public house and restaurant, and that the site was at the junction of Church Road and Well Road.[2] Irish Times reported in 2019 that a seven-year-old child received a EUR45,000 personal-injuries settlement after a door in The Old Schoolhouse Restaurant, Swords, closed on her hand; the child sued Riverside Investments, trading as The Old Schoolhouse, Swords.[3]

Sources  (3)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Independent · "Concern over future use of top Swords restaurant" · 2004-03-12
  3. Irish Times · "Child whose fingers were crushed in door awarded EUR45,000 damages" · 2019-12-16

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