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O'Dowd's Bar - Connemara

The O’Dowd family have been welcoming visitors to this much-loved pub overlooking the harbour for longer than most people care to remember.

There are some new developments from time to time, but the old bar is always the same – or at least it was until recently, when the Guide was shocked to find a smart new facade and a new front door.

Inside it was reassuring familiar, however, and it remains one of those simple places, with the comfort of an open fire and good pint, where people congregate in total relaxation - if they can get in (it can be very busy in the summer months).

A reasonably priced bar menu majoring in seafood offers sustenance or, for more formal meals, the restaurant next door does the honours: seafood chowder, mussels, crab, hot buttered lobster, in-shell Aran Bay prawns in garlic butter etc; non-fish eaters will be pleased to find some other choices, including Connemara lamb; simple puds like blackberry & apple pie to finish.

Restaurant seats 36; children welcome before 7pm (high chair, children's menu). Meals 12-10 daily (to 9.30 in pub); reservations required in restaurant. A la carte. House wine from €19.50. SC 10% on parties of 6+. *Self-catering accommodation available - details on application. Closed 25 Dec. Amex, MasterCard, Visa, Laser.

Directions:

On harbour front in Roundstone village.