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HAIRY LEMON Notable

41/42 LOWER STEPHEN STREET, & 64 DRURY STREET, Dublin

Address41/42 LOWER STEPHEN STREET, & 64 DRURY STREET
CountyDublin
EircodeD02 NV08
Opening hoursMo-Th 10:00-23:30; Fr-Sa 10:00-01:30; Su 10:00-23:00
Licence refS0131

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Boards.ie memory links Hairy Lemon with stories and gossip, old memories, rituals and customs, regulars and characters 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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16 source leads · 2001-2019

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🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1810 · NIAH rating: Regional

Nos. 41-42 was originally a pair of houses, constructed in the first half of the nineteenth century. The ground floors converted for commercial use around the mid-century. No. 42 was noted as a grocers in the Street Directories of 1862. The stucco embellishments were likely added during the late nineteenth century, and were a common method in the Victorian period of enriching the austere façades of existing Georgian-style buildings. Later converted and internally remodelled for use as a public house, the frontage has had modern insertions but some earlier (possibly late nineteenth-century)...

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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 historyArchitecture

Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register records licence ref S0131 as Hairy Lemon at 41/42 Lower Stephen Street, & 64 Drury Street, Dublin.[1] NIAH record 50910037 gives the associated building a Regional rating and dates it between c.1810 and c.1850.[2]

Sources  (2)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 50910037 · 2026-05-22

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Local notes

Established

Built between c.1810 and c.1850.

Architecture

Nos. 41-42 was originally a pair of houses, constructed in the first half of the nineteenth century. The ground floors converted for commercial use around the mid-century. No. 42 was noted as a grocers in the Street Directories of 1862.

Community memory

Memory archive

Archive time depth

2001-2019

18 years of archive-metadata distance across 16 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

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Flagship memory draft

Hairy Lemon: Boards.ie memory worth building out

Boards.ie gives Hairy Lemon a useful forum-memory trail around stories and gossip, old memories, rituals and house habits, characters and regulars and room atmosphere. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.

The archive has 16 readable signals for Hairy Lemon, 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: 2 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 16 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2001-2019.

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

Readable memory note

Boards.ie gives Hairy Lemon a source-linked forum-memory trail around stories and gossip, old memories, rituals and habits, regulars and room characters and atmosphere, with 16 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 2 room-texture signals, pointing to regulars, crowds, roles or recurring pub talk without treating forum memory as verified fact.

16 readable signals 2 character signals
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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

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

The archive has 16 readable signals for Hairy Lemon, 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

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Hairy Lemon 16 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, 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 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. ever had a health scare??

    2009 · memory, story

  2. Afraid of things

    2008 · story

  3. No activity here afterhours

    2001 · story

  4. Spitting!! Ugh!

    2004 · 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

What the Boards.ie trail is useful for

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

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Hairy Lemon 16 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, 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 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.

v1 forum memory

characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 2 signals for Hairy Lemon: 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.

v1 forum memory

time_depth

Archive time depth

Hairy Lemon has 16 dated source leads from 2001 to 2019, giving the page a 18-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

archive context

source_depth

Source trail

PubHub has 16 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.

source preserved

Story leads

Best Boards.ie memory leads

Hairy Lemon has 16 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip, old memories, rituals and customs, regulars and characters and atmosphere. The strongest current lead points into "ever had a health scare??"; 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 2 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. ever had a health scare??

    2009 · memory, story · lead score 131

  2. Afraid of things

    2008 · story · lead score 120

  3. No activity here afterhours

    2001 · story · lead score 117

  4. Spitting!! Ugh!

    2004 · story · lead score 117

  5. Irish UN Soldiers help to rescue Filipino Peacekeepers who are Under Fire

    2012 · story · lead score 117

Characters and room texture

  1. 1980's New York City - better or worse than today?

    2019 · characters · lead score 109

  2. 1980's New York City - better or worse than today?

    2010 · characters · lead score 109

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

Hairy Lemon has 16 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip, old memories, rituals and customs, regulars and characters and atmosphere. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Memory shape

Stories and gossip, old memories, rituals and customs, regulars and characters and atmosphere

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.

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

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
    Feral Thugs Welcome tourists

    2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  2. 2
  3. 3
    Stupid dog!

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  4. 4
    Favourite Band, Or Singer of all time...

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  5. 5
    Favourite Band, Or Singer of all time...

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  6. 6
    Spitting!! Ugh!

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  7. 7
    No activity here afterhours

    2001Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  8. 8
    Diet Cidona/Diet Lilt Craving - where to buy?

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  9. 9
    Afraid of things

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84

  10. 10
    'After hours' eh?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  11. 11
    what ever happened to golly bars ?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  12. 12
    Housemates

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  13. 13
    1980's New York City - better or worse than today?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  14. 14
    1980's New York City - better or worse than today?

    2019Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  15. 15
    ever had a health scare??

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

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Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links Hairy Lemon with stories and gossip, old memories, rituals and customs, regulars and characters 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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Next memory action for this pub

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.

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