Established
Trading since 1775 — first as a grocery shop and shebeen, then rebuilt in 1880 by Edward J. Morrissey as the lofty two-storey, high-shelved premises that survives today.
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Established
Trading since 1775 — first as a grocery shop and shebeen, then rebuilt in 1880 by Edward J. Morrissey as the lofty two-storey, high-shelved premises that survives today.
Earlier uses
An Abbeyleix everything-shop in its day: pub, grocer, newsagent, travel agent, undertaker, auctioneer, insurance agent. The travel-agent counter sold tickets for the Titanic's first and only voyage.
Architecture
A near-perfect time capsule of late-19th-century Irish pub-and-grocery life. High shelf-lined walls, pot-belly stove, original Jacob's biscuit tins, a fixed-speed bicycle, a Fry's chocolate display, the original grocer's scales — all in place. Family-owned until 2003; now in the hands of Carlow publican Tom Lennon, who has not 'restored' anything.
Reputation
Widely regarded as one of Ireland's most authentic surviving traditional pubs — the genuine article, not a recreation.
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