Easy to recognise with its bright red and black paintwork and the bikes outside, this cheerful traditional pub in the centre of Moate has a turf range in the back bar and it's a friendly place to drop in for a drink and some low-down on the area.
Simple, wholesome food is also available at certain times (a phone call to check is advised) and a new seating area has been set up outside. Traditional Irish music is a speciality.
Multyfarnham is a delightful traditional village in the gloriously unspoilt rolling countryside just north of Mullingar, and near Lough Derravaragh – where the mythical Children of Lir spent 300 years of their 900 year exile. Complete with a 13th century Francisca ...
Just beside the bridge over the Shannon in Tarmonbarry, this well-run bar and restaurant is a favourite watering hole for river folk and makes a great place to break a journey between Dublin and the north-west. The bar is comfortably set up for food, and informal meals ...
Tables set up outside Michael and Joyce Soden’s popular Derg Inn please the summer crowd, and a crackling fire is a welcome sight on a cold day - like many country pubs this is, perhaps, a place seen at its best off-season. This is one of the area’s best pub ...
This attractive and characterful pub in Carrick on Shannon is run by brothers Conor and Ronan Maher, sons of former Carrick-on-Shannon hoteliers, Rosaleen and the late Tom Maher (see entry for Hollywell), and it will be very clear to anyone who visits that they’ve ...
Donald and Therese Raftery's famous family-run establishment (now in its third generation) is off the old Galway-Dublin road and is the meeting place for the well-known Galway Blazers Hunt, who are kennelled close by. It can make a useful stopping place: popular b ...
