Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Cobblestone with old memories, music and sessions and stories and gossip. 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 · 2005-2019
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From the record · Deep research
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 N0198 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE COBBLESTONE at 77 North King Street in Dublin city, with COBBLESTONE BAR LIMITED as licensee.[1]
TheJournal.ie reported in 2019 that Tom Mulligan had been running The Cobblestone in Smithfield for thirty years.[2]
The same report said Mulligan took over the pub in 1988 after leaving a job in insurance.[2]
TheJournal.ie said the pub had opened at seven in the morning for many years and functioned as a market pub with local darts and pool teams.[2]
The report said Mulligan, whose father was a fiddler and piper from Co Leitrim, decided to turn The Cobblestone into a music pub as Smithfield redeveloped.[2]
TheJournal.ie reported that the pub began with music on Friday and Saturday nights and later hosted sessions and gigs seven nights a week.[2]
The same article said the pub also held weekly classes for musicians, dancers, and singers.[2]
The Irish Times reported in 2022 that Marron Estates Ltd withdrew an An Bord Pleanala appeal after Dublin City Council refused a hotel proposal for 77-80 North King Street.[3]
The Irish Times said the proposal included The Cobblestone and would have demolished an outdoor area and the pub's Backroom venue.[3]
The same report said the council had refused permission partly over the size and impact on historic structures.[3]
The Irish Times said almost 700 objections were lodged with Dublin City Council and that a Save the Cobblestone petition gathered almost 35,000 signatures.[3]
PubHub lore
Established
Trading at the top of Smithfield Square. The current Mulligan family stewardship dates from 1987.
Family
Run by the Mulligan family since 1987. Tom Mulligan keeps the bar; his father T.P. Mulligan is part of a five-generation line of traditional musicians.
Screen
Featured in countless trad documentaries.
Screen
Subject of RTÉ's 2022 series *Athbhaile — The Cobblestone*.
Music
Five generations of the Mulligan family have played Irish traditional music; Tom and T.P. Mulligan have made the room a key node in the international trad circuit. Live trad sessions seven days a week, in the back room. The musicians decide who plays.
Reputation
Widely treated as Dublin's most uncompromising trad venue.
Community memory
Archive time depth
14 years of archive-metadata distance across 6 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 The Cobblestone 6 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory and story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories. 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.
2019 · 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 The Cobblestone 6 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory and story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories. 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.
time_depth
The Cobblestone has 6 dated source leads from 2005 to 2019, 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
The Cobblestone has 6 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, music and sessions and stories and gossip. The strongest current lead points into "Michael Collins always on the television"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories.
2008 · memory · lead score 122
2007 · memory · lead score 122
2019 · story · lead score 116
2010 · memory · lead score 114
2005 · memory · lead score 114
Archive profile
The Cobblestone has 6 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, music and sessions and stories and gossip. 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, music and sessions and stories and gossip
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.
Music and sessions
Boards.ie memory links this pub with music, sessions, singing, gigs, or pub-night rhythm.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
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.
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 84
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86
2019Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Cobblestone with old memories, music and sessions and stories and gossip. 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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