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AND EXTNS, KILLINEY, Dublin

AddressAND EXTNS, KILLINEY
CountyDublin
Licence refS0320

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Boards.ie memory links Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel with stories and gossip, rituals and customs and atmosphere. 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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5 source leads · 2007-2012

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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.

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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref S0320 as a Publican's Licence (Ordinary) Hotel - BF - 1902 Act (Public Bar) for FITZPATRICK CASTLE HOTEL at AND EXTNS, KILLINEY in CO. DUBLIN with KILLINEY HOTELS LIMITED as licensee.[1]

Irish Times reported in 2013 that the late Paddy Fitzpatrick opened the Castle Hotel in Killiney in 1971 and that Eithne Scott-Lennon had run it since 2002.[2] The same report described it as one of south Dublin's landmark hotels, with 115 bedrooms, two bars, two restaurants, function rooms, and a leisure centre with 1,500 members.[2] Irish Times reported in 2022 that the four-star Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel in Killiney returned to profit, and that Emdora Ltd operated the 113-bedroom hotel.[3] Irish Times reported in 2023 that John Fitzpatrick's sister Eithne Scott-Lennon ran Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, bought by their parents in 1977.[4]

Sources  (4)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Times · "Future Proof: Eithne Scott-Lennon, Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, Killiney" · 2013-08-06
  3. Irish Times · "Killiney's Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel records profit but revenue still down" · 2022-08-17
  4. Irish Times · "Hotelier John Fitzpatrick takes Distinguished Leader in Business award" · 2023-02-02

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Memory archive

Archive time depth

2007-2012

5 years of archive-metadata distance across 5 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

2007200920112012
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Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

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.

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel 5 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms and recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place. 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. EBS building soc workers want annual Xmas bonus

    2011 · story

  2. Rally for The Quinn-were you there?

    2007 · story

  3. Rally for The Quinn-were you there?

    2011 · story

  4. EBS building soc workers want annual Xmas bonus

    2009 · atmosphere

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel 5 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms and recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place. 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.

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Archive time depth

Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel has 5 dated source leads from 2007 to 2012, giving the page a 5-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

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Source trail

PubHub has 5 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.

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Story leads

Best Boards.ie memory leads

Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel has 5 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip, rituals and customs and atmosphere. The strongest current lead points into "EBS building soc workers want annual Xmas bonus"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. EBS building soc workers want annual Xmas bonus

    2011 · story · lead score 122

  2. Rally for The Quinn-were you there?

    2007 · story · lead score 115

  3. Rally for The Quinn-were you there?

    2011 · story · lead score 107

  4. EBS building soc workers want annual Xmas bonus

    2009 · atmosphere · lead score 101

  5. Seanie Fitz parties in Poland

    2012 · rituals and customs · lead score 96

Characters and room texture

  1. EBS building soc workers want annual Xmas bonus

    2011 · story · lead score 122

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel has 5 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip, rituals and customs and atmosphere. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Stories and gossip, rituals and customs and atmosphere

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Stories and gossip

Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.

Rituals and customs

Boards.ie memory links this pub with repeated habits, late bars, quiz nights, lock-ins, sessions, or house routines.

Room atmosphere

Boards.ie memory links this pub with room feel, recommendations, and how people described the place.

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
    Rally for The Quinn-were you there?

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 79

  2. 2
    Rally for The Quinn-were you there?

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 79

  3. 3
    Seanie Fitz parties in Poland

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  4. 4
    EBS building soc workers want annual Xmas bonus

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 79

  5. 5
    EBS building soc workers want annual Xmas bonus

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 79

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