GAFFNEY AND SON Heritage

🏭 Heritage-listed building

Built: c.1760 · NIAH rating: Regional

This elegant building survives with much of its early form and character intact, its late Victorian refurbishment providing a decorative contrast to the earlier Georgian composition. It retains salient features from various time periods, including the early roof profile, windows and wrought-ironwork, reflecting its architectural evolution. The well-executed signage adds decorative as well as contextual interest to the façade. The building has a long history as a public house and Thomas Gaffney bought it at the turn of the twentieth century and added the current pubfront. It had many previous owners, including John Carey who, in 1880, was a brewer and manufacturer of bagatelle tables, the latter popular in public houses at the time and made by Carey on the premises. The earliest licence dates from the early eighteenth century, when it was known as Big Gun Inn; at that time the area to the east was tidal mud flats. By the start of the nineteenth century, the east end of Fairview Strand had been reclaimed from the sea at the confluence of the rivers Tolka and Liffey.

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