Community memory
Boards.ie memory links Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge with stories and gossip and old memories. 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 · 2007-2014
Read source trailFrom 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 1014606 as a Publican's Licence (Ordinary) Hotel - BF - 1902 Act (Public Bar) for CLAYTON HOTEL BALLSBRIDGE at MERRION ROAD, BALLSBRIDGE in DUBLIN CITY with HEARTSIDE LIMITED as licensee.[1]
Irish Times reported in December 2014 that Dalata intended to acquire most of the Moran Bewley's Hotel Group for EUR455m, including Bewley's hotels in Ballsbridge, Dublin Airport, Leopardstown, and Newlands Cross.[2] Irish Times reported in June 2015 that Dalata would invest EUR27m in upgrading Clayton and Maldron hotels and rebrand 10 recently acquired hotels as Clayton hotels, including the former Bewley's hotels in Ballsbridge and Dublin Airport.[3]
Community memory
Archive time depth
7 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 Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge 3 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories and older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes. 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.
2014 · memory, story
2007 · story
2007 · 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
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story_gossip
Boards.ie gives Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge 3 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories and older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes. 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.
time_depth
Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge has 3 dated source leads from 2007 to 2014, giving the page a 7-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
Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge has 3 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip and old memories. The strongest current lead points into "Would you tell people outside your immediate family you won the lotto?"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories.
2014 · memory, story · lead score 122
2007 · story · lead score 121
2007 · story · lead score 116
Archive profile
Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge has 3 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip and old memories. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
V1 source
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Memory shape
Stories and gossip and old memories
Correction loop
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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.
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.
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80
2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge with stories and gossip and old memories. 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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