HARTIGANS BAR Heritage

🏭 Heritage-listed building

Built: c.1790 · NIAH rating: Regional

Commercial directories record a continuity of use for this former townhouse as a grocer or spirit dealer, stretching back at least one hundred and fifty years, indicating a long history of ground floor commercial use. Likely built as a pair with No. 101 to the west, it retains its original plot size and façade proportions. The later shopfront is an interesting addition and retains noteworthy features including a carved cornice and stained glass panels. Previous publicans are commemorated in the stained glass panels to the display window (TJL - Thomas J. Lynch) and the metal grill over the entrance door (AM - Alfie Mulligan who took over the pub, c. 1975). It features in Flann O'Brien's novel ‘At Swim Two Birds’ (1939), recommended by the poet Dylan Thomas as “just the book to give your sister – if she’s a loud, dirty, boozy girl.” Development of Leeson Street Lower commenced during the latter decades of the eighteenth-century and was largely completed by the early-nineteenth century.

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