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75 DAME STREET (GROUND FLOOR AND BASEMENT), AND 11/12 CRAMPTON COURT, Dublin

Address75 DAME STREET (GROUND FLOOR AND BASEMENT), AND 11/12 CRAMPTON COURT
CountyDublin
EircodeD02 DX00
Licence refS0082

🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

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...

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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 historyCultural mentions

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]

Sources  (3)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 50020063 · 2015-03-22
  3. Irish Times · "Calm before the Landsdowne storming" · 1997-01-18

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Local notes

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

Memory archive

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Preliminary trace 1 source lead 1 candidate signal

What survives in the archive

The trace is woven through ordinary plans and personal timelines: the kind of passing mention that shows a pub had a place in people's routes, nights out and remembered occasions.

Archive profile

A pub appearing in ordinary life

Brogans shows up in the ordinary routes of pre-2026 internet memory: plans, occasions, recommendations or recollections. That is useful because pub history often starts in small passing mentions before fuller stories are found.

Archive strength

Single archive trace

Memory shape

Life events, old memories and story leads

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Life events

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Old memories

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Story leads

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Boards.ie archive trace

A pre-2026 Boards.ie discussion leaves a preliminary community-memory trace for Brogans, around life events, old memories and story leads. PubHub treats this as a single archive signal: useful for memory-page curation, not as verified fact.

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Boards.ie source leads (1)
  1. The best pint of Guinness in Dublin/Ireland · score 9

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