one of ... Britain's Real Heritage Pubs
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This pub is taken from the National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors, CAMRA's pioneering effort to identify and help protect the most important historic pub interiors in the country. | ||||
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COUNTY ANTRIM - Cushendun, Mary McBride's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors Part Two 2 Main Street, Cushendun, BT44 0PH Tel: 028 2176 1511 Opening Hours: From Easter to end of September 12 noon to 11pm; winter hours are Mon to Fri 5pm to 11pm; Sat, Sun 12noon to 11pm Pub Food: Meals served all day. Live Music: Music, some-times Trad Irish, every Sat eve; In summer Trad Irish Sun 10pm Listed Status: Grade B Originally the public area amounted to a single tiny bar, 5ft x 9ft 6ins, and, as such, the pub was one of the smallest in all Ireland. It has no tables or chairs and just very simple fittings - plain bar counter, simple shelving for bottles and glasses and a basic bench round two walls. The floor tiles have been replaced in recent years. It was taken over by the National Trust in the 1990s and a new bar has been created at the rear and the room on right converted from living quarters. These changes, although creating a pub of viable size, have taken away much of the overall sense of what a basic, one-room Irish pub was like. Something of that flavour can be recaptured at, say, McKee's in Dungannon or Shiels' Bar in Tassagh, both in Co. Tyrone. |
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