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MADAME, BALLINASCARTHY, CLONAKILTY, Cork

AddressMADAME, BALLINASCARTHY, CLONAKILTY
CountyCork
Licence refCXP699

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Boards.ie memory links The Henry Ford Tavern with old memories, stories and gossip and story leads. PubHub V1 treats this as published forum memory: not a settled fact, but a linked record of what people said, remembered, joked about, or claimed online.

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9 source leads · 2003-2018

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What the archives say

Independent reporting and heritage records on this pub, drawn from a curated list of Irish news outlets, Revenue Commissioners, NIAH, and the Dictionary of Irish Architects. Every claim links to its primary source.

Listing historyNotable events

Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref CXP699 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE HENRY FORD TAVERN at MADAME, BALLINASCARTHY, CLONAKILTY in CO. CORK with TIMOTHY O'DONOVAN as licensee.[1] The Irish Examiner reported that Ford Motor Company executive chairman William Clay Ford Jr visited Ballinascarty (near Clonakilty) on 2017-04-20 and “had time for a quick pint at the Henry Ford Tavern”.[2]

Sources  (2)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Examiner · "Watch: William Clay Ford Jr hails hugely meaningful return to ancestral home" · 2017-04-20

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Memory archive

Archive time depth

2003-2018

15 years of archive-metadata distance across 9 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

2003200620082009201020142018
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Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Henry Ford Tavern 9 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories and fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local stories. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.

Source-linked story leads

  1. Those 'hilarious' stories of someone losing it at a telemarketer?

    2008 · story

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Henry Ford Tavern 9 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories and fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local stories. This is not verified pub history; it is a mapped trail of what people said online and where PubHub can go next for local colour.

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Archive time depth

The Henry Ford Tavern has 9 dated source leads from 2003 to 2018, giving the page a 15-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

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Source trail

PubHub has 9 unique Boards.ie source URLs tied to this pub-memory record. Each public lead stays linked so corrections can point to the exact forum source.

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Story leads

Best Boards.ie memory leads

The Henry Ford Tavern has 9 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip and story leads. The strongest current lead points into "Irelands greatest : is that all we can produce?"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Irelands greatest : is that all we can produce?

    2006 · memory · lead score 116

  2. Irelands greatest : is that all we can produce?

    2009 · memory · lead score 116

  3. who could you relay on?

    2008 · memory · lead score 115

  4. Those 'hilarious' stories of someone losing it at a telemarketer?

    2008 · story · lead score 111

  5. Stupid Famous Sayings

    2003 · memory · lead score 108

Characters and room texture

  1. who could you relay on?

    2008 · memory · lead score 115

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

The Henry Ford Tavern has 9 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip and story leads. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Memory shape

Old memories, stories and gossip and story leads

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Old memories

Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.

Stories and gossip

Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.

Story leads

Boards.ie memory contains fragments that look like starting points for fuller pub stories.

Archive source trail

Where this memory trace comes from

These are linked Boards.ie leads from pre-2026 discussion. PubHub V1 shows the linked trail as forum memory and uses the correction path for bad matches, missing context, or pages that need checking.

  1. 1
    Heavy Drinking Sessions ....

    2018Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  2. 2
    Irelands greatest : is that all we can produce?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  3. 3
    Irelands greatest : is that all we can produce?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  4. 4
  5. 5
    "He was ahead of his time".

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  6. 6
    Toyota Towers

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  7. 7
    Toyota Towers

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  8. 8
    Stupid Famous Sayings

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  9. 9
    who could you relay on?

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

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