THE BLOODY STREAM
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RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOM, HOWTH RAILWAY/DART STATION, 78 HOWTH ROADCheck with the pub before travelling.The regulars
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Recorded pub details
- Listed address
- RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOM, HOWTH RAILWAY/DART STATION, 78 HOWTH ROAD
- Eircode
- D13 N8K7
- Phone
- +35318395076
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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 N1879 as a Publican's Ordinary Railway Refreshment Rooms Licence for THE BLOODY STREAM at RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOM, HOWTH RAILWAY/DART STATION, 78 HOWTH ROAD in CO. DUBLIN with HOWTH RAILWAY REFRESHMENT ROOMS LIMITED as licensee.[1]
In a 2015 Irish Times Barfly column, Gary Quinn wrote that Michael JF Wright owned The Bloody Stream and had taken a derelict building in 1995 and turned it into the bar.[2]
An Irish Times walk article described The Bloody Stream as the old railway station, now a pub, and linked the name to a 12th-century Norman defeat of the Vikings of Howth.[3]
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