Community memory
Boards.ie memory links Brogans with stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters 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.
3 source leads · 2007-2013
Read source trail🏭 Heritage-listed building
Built: c.1740 · NIAH rating: Regional
This building shares proportions, scale and parapet height with its neighbours to the west, resulting in a coherent streetscape. Traditional materials including brickwork, joinery and granite dressings add to its historic character. The diminishing scale of upper floor fenestration attributes a hierarchy to each floor, creating a pleasantly balanced façade, which was typical of eighteenth and nineteenth-century townhouses. The ornate shopfront, as well as adding contextual interest, displays skilled carpentry, adding aesthetic interest to the façade and demonstrating high quality...
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.
Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref S0082 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for BROGANS at 75 DAME STREET (GROUND FLOOR AND BASEMENT), AND 11/12 CRAMPTON COURT in DUBLIN CITY with HADVIEW TAVERNS LIMITED as licensee.[1]
NIAH records Brogan's Bar at 75 Dame Street/Crampton Court as a regionally rated building of architectural, artistic, and social interest, with previous name The Viking, original use as house, current use as public house, and date range 1740-1760.[2]
Irish Times writer Frank McNally placed Brogan's pub in Dame Street in a 1997 rugby-supporters column about French fans in Dublin.[3]
PubHub lore
Established
Built between c.1740 and c.1760.
Architecture
Traditional materials including brickwork, joinery and granite dressings add to its historic character. The diminishing scale of upper floor fenestration attributes a hierarchy to each floor, creating a pleasantly balanced façade, which was typical of eighteenth and nineteenth-century townhouses.
Community memory
Archive time depth
6 years of archive-metadata distance across 3 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Stories and local colour
The Boards.ie trail has story-shaped signals for this pub: odd details, gossip, atmosphere, nights out or local colour that may be useful leads for a fuller memory page.
story gossip
Boards.ie gives Brogans 3 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub 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.
2007 · memory, story
2013 · 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 Brogans 3 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub 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 1 signal for Brogans: 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
Brogans has 3 dated source leads from 2007 to 2013, giving the page a 6-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 3 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
Brogans has 3 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters and rituals and customs. The strongest current lead points into "Whats the Story With Coppers???"; 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 1 regulars-or-room-texture signal.
2007 · memory, story · lead score 127
2010 · characters, rituals and customs · lead score 113
2013 · story · lead score 113
2010 · characters, rituals and customs · lead score 113
Archive profile
Brogans has 3 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters 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
Stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters 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.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Old memories
Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
Rituals and customs
Boards.ie memory links this pub with repeated habits, late bars, quiz nights, lock-ins, sessions, or house routines.
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.
2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links Brogans with stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters 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.
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