Community 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.
18 source leads · 2000-2013
Read source trail🏭 Heritage-listed building
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
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.
PubHub lore
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
Quick read
Short linked forum memory from people talking about this pub.
Archive time depth
13 years of archive-metadata distance across 18 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Flagship memory draft
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
characters
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.
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.
source_depth
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.
Story 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.
2005 · characters, memory · lead score 134
2008 · memory · lead score 129
2006 · memory · lead score 129
2006 · characters · lead score 128
2011 · memory, story · lead score 127
2005 · characters, memory · lead score 134
2006 · characters · lead score 128
2003 · characters · lead score 113
Archive profile
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.
V1 source
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
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.
2000Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
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.
Think this Boards.ie memory is wrong, unfair, missing context, or attached to the wrong pub? Send PubHub a correction and we will check the page. Contact PubHub.
Boards.ie sprint target
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.
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.
More Boards.ie snippets
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fancy joining a sea fishin club?? · 2006“fifib wrote: Thanks guys for all the suggestions. Are Kingsvalley and Bodkins still open? Heard recently one of them had closed but...”
Places for lunch on East of city · 2008“Thanks guys for all the suggestions. Are Kingsvalley and Bodkins still open? Heard recently one of them had closed but cannot remember...”
Places for lunch on East of city · 2006“Grassroots Music Gathering! This Thursday November 27th at 7.30pm, at Bodkins on Bolton Street (just at the top of Capel Street) Admission...”
Grassroots Music Gathering - this Thursday in Bodkins · 2003