Community memory
Boards.ie memory links Kehoes with old memories, rituals and customs, atmosphere and 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.
6 source leads · 2003-2017
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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 S0001 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for KEHOES at 9 South Anne Street in Dublin city, with TRIMBLEGROVE LIMITED as licensee.[1]
NIAH records John Kehoe at 9 South Anne Street and Duke Lane as a regional-rated former house with architectural, artistic, and social interest.[2]
NIAH dates the building to 1715-1900, records its original use as a house, and records its current survey use as a public house.[2]
The NIAH description says the building is a corner-sited former house built c.1725, with a lower c.1880 return and later public-house use.[2]
NIAH identifies a Victorian wraparound pubfrontage, panelled stall-riser, painted timber fascia, four-panel timber door, and carved timber joinery.[2]
NIAH says Kehoe's has been in use as a public house since 1803 and describes its late Victorian pubfrontage and interior as among Dublin city's best preserved Victorian pub interiors.[2]
NIAH records the pub as a haunt of Patrick Kavanagh, Brendan Behan, and Flann O'Brien.[2]
The Irish Times reported in 1996 that Dublin publican Louis Fitzgerald paid GBP2.01 million at auction for Kehoe's bar on South Anne Street.[3]
The same Irish Times report said Fitzgerald denied plans to move the licence and said the Victorian bar would stay in business.[3]
PubHub lore
Established
First licensed in 1803, just off Grafton Street on South Anne Street. The interior visitors see today is the product of a late-19th-century Victorian renovation.
Literary links
Identified by Joycean scholars as the setting for the first part of *Grace*, from *Dubliners*. The back exterior wall carries the Joyce inscription: 'In the particular is contained the universal.'
Architecture
Original Victorian fittings: mahogany bar, traditional snugs, the partitioned counter that has shielded poets from publicans for over two centuries.
Regulars
James Joyce, Brendan Behan, Patrick Kavanagh and Myles na gCopaleen all drank here — the latter three frequently when they had fallen out of favour over in McDaid's.
Reputation
Among Dublin's literary-pub triumvirate alongside McDaid's and the Palace Bar. The mid-century writers' rotation between the three pubs is part of Dublin's drinking history.
Community memory
Archive time depth
14 years of archive-metadata distance across 5 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 Kehoes 6 readable forum-memory signals around 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, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and 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.
2011 · characters, atmosphere, memory
2003 · atmosphere
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 Kehoes 6 readable forum-memory signals around 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, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and 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.
characters
The character lane has 1 signal for Kehoes: 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
Kehoes has 5 dated source leads from 2003 to 2017, 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 6 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
Kehoes has 6 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, rituals and customs, atmosphere and regulars and characters. The strongest current lead points into "Archbishops issue strongly worded statement on Government decision for abortion"; 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.
2011 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 125
2003 · atmosphere · lead score 112
2009 · memory · lead score 111
2010 · memory · lead score 111
2017 · rituals and customs · lead score 97
2011 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 125
2003 · atmosphere · lead score 112
Archive profile
Kehoes has 6 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, rituals and customs, atmosphere and regulars and characters. 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, rituals and customs, atmosphere and regulars and characters
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.
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.
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.
Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2017Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links Kehoes with old memories, rituals and customs, atmosphere and 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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