Community memory
Boards.ie memory links Haddington House with old memories, stories and gossip, rituals and customs, regulars and characters and local colour. 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.
19 source leads · 2002-2016
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 S0307 as a Publican's Licence (Ordinary) Hotel - BF - 1902 Act (Public Bar) for HADDINGTON HOUSE at 9,10,11 AND 12 HADDINGTON TCE, DUN LAOGHAIRE in County Dublin with HH SPIRIT LIMITED as licensee.[1] The Irish Times reported in 2016 that Fla Larkin ran the Haddington Hotel at the foot of Dun Laoghaire's East Pier.[2] An Coimisiun Pleanala case PL06D.307300 records Haddington House, 9-12 Haddington Terrace, as the subject of a planning appeal for development in the front garden of a protected structure for a cafe/bar, under Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown case D20A/0034.[3] The Irish Independent reported in 2019 that Oliveto had moved to the former Kingston Hotel, renamed Haddington House, and that Fla Larkin was three years into a five-year hotel renovation programme.[4]
Community memory
Archive time depth
14 years of archive-metadata distance across 17 dated Boards.ie archive leads.
Flagship memory draft
Boards.ie gives Haddington House a useful forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, rituals and house habits, characters and regulars and local colour. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.
The archive has 19 readable signals for Haddington House, 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 19 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2002-2016.
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 Haddington House a source-linked forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, rituals and habits, regulars and room characters and oddities and local colour, with 19 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 19 readable signals for Haddington House, 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 Haddington House 19 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, repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in. 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.
2008 · 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 Haddington House 19 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, repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in. 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 Haddington House: 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
Haddington House has 17 dated source leads from 2002 to 2016, giving the page a 14-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 19 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
Haddington House has 19 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, rituals and customs, regulars and characters and local colour. The strongest current lead points into "Significant Development in Trevor Deely Case(No Speculation)"; 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.
2016 · memory · lead score 112
2002 · characters · lead score 111
2008 · characters · lead score 111
2011 · characters · lead score 104
2008 · story · lead score 104
2002 · characters · lead score 111
2008 · characters · lead score 111
2011 · characters · lead score 104
Archive profile
Haddington House has 19 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, rituals and customs, regulars and characters and local colour. 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, rituals and customs, regulars and characters and local colour
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.
Rituals and customs
Boards.ie memory links this pub with repeated habits, late bars, quiz nights, lock-ins, sessions, or house routines.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
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.
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2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
2016Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
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2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
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2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links Haddington House with old memories, stories and gossip, rituals and customs, regulars and characters and local colour. 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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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.