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JACK NEALONS PUB Heritage

165/166 CAPEL STREET, Dublin

Address165/166 CAPEL STREET
CountyDublin
EircodeD01 XD72
Licence refN1070

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Boards.ie memory links Jack Nealons Pub with regulars and characters. 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.

Regulars and characters

1 source lead · 2008

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♿ Not wheelchair accessible

🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1865 · NIAH rating: Regional

This building, erected in 1867 by Charles Geoghegan for the wine and spirit merchant John O'Connor, forms an important element in the built heritage of Dublin. The upper floors are enlivened by colourful ceramic details while the well-executed carving and moulding to the shopfront add further aesthetic interest. The building, located as it is on the corner of two busy streets and having the aforementioned colourful detailing, is a focal point on the streetscape. Capel Street was laid out in the seventeenth century by Humphrey Jervis to link the new Essex Bridge (now Grattan Bridge) to the...

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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 N1070 as Jack Nealons Pub at 165/166 Capel Street, Dublin.[1] NIAH record 50010361 gives the associated building a Regional rating and dates it between c.1865 and c.1870.[2]

Sources  (2)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 50010361 · 2026-05-22

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Local notes

Established

Built between c.1865 and c.1870.

Architecture

This building, erected in 1867 by Charles Geoghegan for the wine and spirit merchant John O'Connor, forms an important element in the built heritage of Dublin. The upper floors are enlivened by colourful ceramic details while the well-executed carving and moulding to the shopfront add further aesthetic interest.

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Memory archive

Archive time depth

2008

same-year archive trace across 1 dated Boards.ie archive lead.

2008
Full Boards.ie archive, story leads and sourcesKept on the page, collapsed so rich pubs do not run for screens.

Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Jack Nealons Pub 1 readable forum-memory signal around regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub. 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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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives Jack Nealons Pub 1 readable forum-memory signal around regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub. 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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characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 1 signal for Jack Nealons Pub: 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.

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time_depth

Archive time depth

Jack Nealons Pub has 1 dated source lead from 2008. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

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Source trail

PubHub has 1 unique Boards.ie source URL 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

Jack Nealons Pub has 1 readable Boards.ie memory signal around regulars and characters. The strongest current lead points into "Bus Eireann to Dublin?"; 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 1 regulars-or-room-texture signal.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Bus Eireann to Dublin?

    2008 · characters · lead score 116

Characters and room texture

  1. Bus Eireann to Dublin?

    2008 · characters · lead score 116

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

Jack Nealons Pub has 1 readable Boards.ie memory match around regulars and characters. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Memory shape

Regulars and characters

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Regulars and characters

Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.

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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.

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    Bus Eireann to Dublin?

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links Jack Nealons Pub with regulars and characters. 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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