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9 LOWER ABBEY STREET, 108 MARLBOROUGH STREET, Dublin

Address9 LOWER ABBEY STREET, 108 MARLBOROUGH STREET
CountyDublin
EircodeD01 H6P1
Licence refN1062
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🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1820 · NIAH rating: Regional

This well-composed public house is prominently sited at the junction of Abbey Street and Marlborough Street. Its modest façade is articulated and enlivened by masonry detailing, including quoins, capping and window surrounds, and is contextualized by a limestone pilastered shopfront to the ground floor. Timber sash windows are retained throughout, adding additional architectural interest. A remodelling phase in 1955 incorporated the addition of a stained-glass frieze by Stanley Tomlin of the glass firm of A.W. Lyons to the interior. The stained-glass windows, by A.V. Englis, replace those...

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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.

Listing historyCultural mentions

Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref N1062 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE FLOWING TIDE at 9 LOWER ABBEY STREET, 108 MARLBOROUGH STREET in DUBLIN CITY with NEPTUNE LOUNGE LIMITED as licensee.[1] NIAH records The Flowing Tide at 9 Abbey Street Lower/Marlborough Street as a regional-rated public house, gives its date range as 1820-1825, and says it was built in 1824 with a public house to the ground floor.[2] The Irish Independent reported in February 2020 that The Flowing Tide was brought to market and was expected to fetch more than €2m.[3] The Irish Times noted stained-glass work by Tony Inglis in The Flowing Tide in 1997.[4]

Sources  (4)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 50010270 · 2011-11-14
  3. Irish Independent · "Dublin pubs come on tap in city centre and suburbs" · 2020-02-27
  4. Irish Times · "Tony Inglis" · 1997-11-04

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Local notes

Established

Built between c.1820 and c.1825.

Architecture

This well-composed public house is prominently sited at the junction of Abbey Street and Marlborough Street. Its modest façade is articulated and enlivened by masonry detailing, including quoins, capping and window surrounds, and is contextualized by a limestone pilastered shopfront to the ground floor.

Music

Listed on thesession.org as a regular trad-session venue (2024-03-13 16:23:42).

Community memory

Memory archive

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Preliminary trace 1 source lead 1 candidate signal

What survives in the archive

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Archive profile

A named trace in the old forum record

The Flowing Tide has a single archive trace where the pub is directly named in pre-2026 Boards.ie discussion. PubHub can use it as a concrete memory doorway around drinks and taps and old memories, while keeping drink, service and atmosphere details historical until freshly checked.

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Single archive trace

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Drinks and taps and old memories

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Drinks and taps

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Old memories

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Boards.ie direct mention trace

Pre-2026 Boards.ie discussion leaves a direct drink-memory trace for The Flowing Tide, especially around Guinness recommendation talk. PubHub treats this as a curated direct-mention archive signal: useful for memory-page curation, not as verified fact.

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Boards.ie source leads (1)
  1. The best pint of Guinness in Dublin/Ireland · score 5

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