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BODKINS Heritage

57 BOLTON STREET, Dublin

Address57 BOLTON STREET
CountyDublin
Licence refN1620

Community memory

Memory archive

Boards.ie memory links Bodkins with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, music and sessions and rituals and customs. 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.

Old memoriesStories and gossipRegulars and charactersMusic and sessions

18 source leads · 2000-2013

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🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1865 · NIAH rating: Regional

Built for use as a commercial building in the late nineteenth century, this pleasant public house stands upon the intersection of Yarnhall and Bolton Street. It has retained much of its historic fabric including sash windows and an unusual shopfront which adds to the variety of the surrounding streetscape and the wider north Georgian city. It provides an example of a Victorian brick and stone shopfront, is well presented and slightly lower roofline contributes to the variety and rhythm of the streetscape while the prominent signage to the parapet ensures that it stands out from its neighbours.

From the record · Verified background

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 historyArchitecture

Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register records licence ref N1620 as Bodkins at 57 Bolton Street, Dublin.[1] NIAH record 50010607 gives the associated building a Regional rating and dates it between c.1865 and c.1885.[2]

Sources  (2)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 50010607 · 2026-05-22

PubHub lore

Local notes

Established

Built between c.1865 and c.1885.

Architecture

Built for use as a commercial building in the late nineteenth century, this pleasant public house stands upon the intersection of Yarnhall and Bolton Street. It has retained much of its historic fabric including sash windows and an unusual shopfront which adds to the variety of the surrounding streetscape and the wider north Georgian city.

Community memory

Memory archive

Quick read

What Boards.ie said

Short linked forum memory from people talking about this pub.

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Archive time depth

2000-2013

13 years of archive-metadata distance across 18 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

20002002200320042005200620082010
Full Boards.ie archive, story leads and sourcesKept on the page, collapsed so rich pubs do not run for screens.

Flagship memory draft

Bodkins: Boards.ie memory worth building out

Boards.ie gives Bodkins a useful forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, characters and regulars, music and sessions and rituals and house habits. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.

The archive has 18 readable signals for Bodkins, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

The character lane is active here: 3 signals point toward regulars, staff-memory, crowds, roles, and room texture. PubHub should keep private people protected while preserving the sense of the room.

The source trail currently preserves 18 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2000-2013.

Generated V1 flagship draft. Before turning this into stronger editorial copy, open the linked sources, check pub identity, and keep corrections/removals easy.

Boards.ie editor brief

Readable memory note

Boards.ie gives Bodkins a source-linked forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and room characters, music and sessions and rituals and habits, with 18 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 3 room-texture signals, pointing to regulars, crowds, roles or recurring pub talk without treating forum memory as verified fact.

18 readable signals 3 character signals
memorystorycharactersmusic and sessionsrituals and customs

This is an editor brief from source-linked forum memory. It is not a verified pub fact, and sensitive private-person claims stay out of public copy.

Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

The archive has 18 readable signals for Bodkins, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

story gossip

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Bodkins 18 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, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory and repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms. 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. Rag Week???

    2011 · memory, story

This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.

PubHub read of the archive

What the Boards.ie trail is useful for

These cards turn the raw forum trail into practical page leads: gossip, character texture, time depth, source depth, and review warnings where the match pattern is broad.

story_gossip

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Bodkins 18 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, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory and repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms. 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.

v1 forum memory

characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 3 signals for Bodkins: regulars, staff-memory, crowds, habits, or the social feel of the room. PubHub keeps this as labelled forum memory and uses source review before turning any named-person fragment into stronger copy.

v1 forum memory

time_depth

Archive time depth

Bodkins has 18 dated source leads from 2000 to 2013, giving the page a 13-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

archive context

source_depth

Source trail

PubHub has 18 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.

source preserved

Story leads

Best Boards.ie memory leads

Bodkins has 18 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, music and sessions and rituals and customs. The strongest current lead points into "How to use multiple turning lanes"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories. The character lane is especially useful here, with 3 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. How to use multiple turning lanes

    2005 · characters, memory · lead score 134

  2. Places for lunch on East of city

    2008 · memory · lead score 129

  3. Places for lunch on East of city

    2006 · memory · lead score 129

  4. fancy joining a sea fishin club??

    2006 · characters · lead score 128

  5. Rag Week???

    2011 · memory, story · lead score 127

Characters and room texture

  1. How to use multiple turning lanes

    2005 · characters, memory · lead score 134

  2. fancy joining a sea fishin club??

    2006 · characters · lead score 128

  3. Grassroots Music Gathering - this Thursday in Bodkins

    2003 · characters · lead score 113

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

Bodkins has 18 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, music and sessions and rituals and customs. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Boards.ie readable-first raw review queue

Memory shape

Old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, music and sessions and rituals and customs

Correction loop

If the page is wrong or unfair, use the correction path and PubHub can update or remove it.

V1 shows linked forum memory and local talk as memory, not as PubHub fact-checking.

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.

Regulars and characters

Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.

Music and sessions

Boards.ie memory links this pub with music, sessions, singing, gigs, or pub-night rhythm.

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
    Any places no cover charge new years eve??

    2000Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  2. 2
    Any places no cover charge new years eve??

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  3. 3
    Places for lunch on East of city

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  4. 4
    Places for lunch on East of city

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  5. 5
    fancy joining a sea fishin club??

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  6. 6
    Grassroots Music Gathering - this Thursday in Bodkins

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  7. 7
  8. 8
    Ice9__Friday 30th__2Bit_Live_Asciinoid_(LMD64)_Live_Free

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  9. 9
    Merlin Woods

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  10. 10
    Merlin Woods

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  11. 11
    Merlin Woods

    2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  12. 12
    How to use multiple turning lanes

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  13. 13
    Rag Week???

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  14. 14
    Rag Week???

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  15. 15
    Shops/Businesses opening/closing down

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77

  16. 16
    Roundabouts [or] lights?

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  17. 17
    If the public transport was good enough, would you use it?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  18. 18
    If the public transport was good enough, would you use it?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links Bodkins with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, music and sessions and rituals and customs. 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.

Source links

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Boards.ie sprint target

Next memory action for this pub

This pub is in the current Boards.ie Memory Productization Sprint. The goal is to turn useful forum traces, gossip, characters, regulars and source leads into readable public memory without treating them as verified facts.

Flagship editorial polish source checked editorial polish Score 290 flagship_editorial_polish-14
memorystorycharactersmusic and sessionsrituals and customs

Operator next step

Open the source links and turn the strongest themes into tighter, readable page copy without overclaiming.

Make the page feel alive without overclaiming: name the recurring themes, describe the room texture, and invite corrections or extra memories.

Browse the full lane on the Boards.ie sprint board.