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1 AND 2 OLD MOUNT PLEASANT, RANELAGH, Dublin

Address1 AND 2 OLD MOUNT PLEASANT, RANELAGH
CountyDublin
EircodeD06 YT25
Licence refS0194

Community memory

Memory archive

Boards.ie memory links The Hill with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs. 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.

Old memoriesStories and gossipRegulars and charactersRoom atmosphere

39 source leads · 2001-2016

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🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1790 · NIAH rating: Regional

Construction on Arran Quay began in the late seventeenth century and was continued throughout the eighteenth century. During the latter, a range of buildings stood directly at the quayside at the east end, resulting in the recessed building line which occurs at this point. Much of the early granite paving and coal holes can be seen in front of this section of the street, providing addition historical and contextual interest. The pubfront of this building was 'rebuilt in the modern style' in 1887, and its render detailing greatly enlivens the façade, providing a visual and textural contrast...

PubHub lore

Local notes

Established

Built between c.1790 and c.1810.

Architecture

Construction on Arran Quay began in the late seventeenth century and was continued throughout the eighteenth century. During the latter, a range of buildings stood directly at the quayside at the east end, resulting in the recessed building line which occurs at this point.

Community memory

Memory archive

Archive time depth

2001-2016

15 years of archive-metadata distance across 39 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

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

Flagship memory draft

The Hill: Boards.ie memory worth building out

Boards.ie gives The Hill a useful forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, characters and regulars, room atmosphere and rituals and house habits. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.

The archive has 39 readable signals for The Hill, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

The character lane is active here: 10 signals point toward regulars, staff-memory, crowds, roles, and room texture. PubHub should keep private people protected while preserving the sense of the room.

The source trail currently preserves 39 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2001-2016.

Generated V1 flagship draft. Before turning this into stronger editorial copy, open the linked sources, check pub identity, and keep corrections/removals easy.

Boards.ie editor brief

Readable memory note

Boards.ie gives The Hill a source-linked forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and room characters, atmosphere and rituals and habits, with 39 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 10 room-texture signals, pointing to regulars, crowds, roles or recurring pub talk without treating forum memory as verified fact.

39 readable signals 10 character signals
memorystorycharactersatmosphererituals and customsoddities and colour

This is an editor brief from source-linked forum memory. It is not a verified pub fact, and sensitive private-person claims stay out of public copy.

Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

The archive has 39 readable signals for The Hill, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

story gossip

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Hill 39 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms. 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.

Source-linked story leads

  1. Feb 7 - The Hasbeens feat. Alden Tyrell [LIVE] @ Lunar Disko

    2005 · memory, story

  2. Brothers wreck pub,90k bill in Damages....WTF??

    2008 · characters, story

  3. Irishman Ian McKeever dies on Mount Kilimanjaro

    2006 · memory, story

  4. Irishman Ian McKeever dies on Mount Kilimanjaro

    2006 · memory, 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

What the Boards.ie trail is useful for

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

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Hill 39 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place and repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms. 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.

v1 forum memory

characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 10 signals for The Hill: 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.

v1 forum memory

time_depth

Archive time depth

The Hill has 39 dated source leads from 2001 to 2016, giving the page a 15-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

archive context

source_depth

Source trail

PubHub has 39 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.

source preserved

Story leads

Best Boards.ie memory leads

The Hill has 39 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs. The strongest current lead points into "Feb 7 - The Hasbeens feat. Alden Tyrell [LIVE] @ Lunar Disko"; 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 10 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Feb 7 - The Hasbeens feat. Alden Tyrell [LIVE] @ Lunar Disko

    2005 · memory, story · lead score 129

  2. 60kmph or 80kmph?

    2005 · characters, memory · lead score 129

  3. Brothers wreck pub,90k bill in Damages....WTF??

    2008 · characters, story · lead score 125

  4. Irishman Ian McKeever dies on Mount Kilimanjaro

    2006 · memory, story · lead score 125

  5. Irishman Ian McKeever dies on Mount Kilimanjaro

    2006 · memory, story · lead score 125

Characters and room texture

  1. 60kmph or 80kmph?

    2005 · characters, memory · lead score 129

  2. Brothers wreck pub,90k bill in Damages....WTF??

    2008 · characters, story · lead score 125

  3. Woman sues Lidl for £6000 over child being accused of theft.

    2009 · story · lead score 122

  4. This is just crazy

    2003 · characters, memory · lead score 117

  5. Cable car proposal is back

    2009 · characters, memory · lead score 117

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

The Hill has 39 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs. 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, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs

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.

Stories and gossip

Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.

Regulars and characters

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

Room atmosphere

Boards.ie memory links this pub with room feel, recommendations, and how people described the place.

Archive source trail

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.

  1. 1
    Garda who passed information to criminals to be sentenced

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  2. 2
    Worst road in Ireland...

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  3. 3
    Creepy taxi journeys you've taken

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  4. 4
    Irishman Ian McKeever dies on Mount Kilimanjaro

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  5. 5
    Irishman Ian McKeever dies on Mount Kilimanjaro

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  6. 6
    The Dublin zoo appreciation thread.

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  7. 7
    BBC propaganda stunt on Syria massacre backfires.

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  8. 8
    The Scouts / Cub Scouts

    2001Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  9. 9
    July 5th - Lunar Disko 2nd B'day - Alden Tyrell & I-G

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  10. 10
    Electric Picnic lineup...what do you think?

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  11. 11
    DJ Woody (ITF/One Self) in RiRa Fri June 2 - only a fiver

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  12. 12
    60kmph or 80kmph?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  13. 13
  14. 14
    Have you ever been to Scotland?

    2016Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  15. 15
    Ireland wastes 70 million on barbarisim

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  16. 16
    Woman sues Lidl for £6000 over child being accused of theft.

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  17. 17
    Has Irish tourist board no shame?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  18. 18
    Has Irish tourist board no shame?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  19. 19
    Armed Gardai! Look out innocent people!!

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  20. 20
    Canada to check travellers for pirated music/videos at borders

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  21. 21
    Anyone else fed up of the Gardai whinging about pay?

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  22. 22
    Cable car proposal is back

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  23. 23
    Cable car proposal is back

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  24. 24
    Overweight police officers

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  25. 25
    Brothers wreck pub,90k bill in Damages....WTF??

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  26. 26
    Rip off home prices in crime ridden areas

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  27. 27
    Plank Kenny - Land Thief?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  28. 28
    what do you think about life and work in Ireland ?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  29. 29
    Jim Lauderdale

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  30. 30
    fetish for irish people

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  31. 31
    Would you want to be famous?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  32. 32
    have you ever made someone cry?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  33. 33
    Keeping bread in the fridge

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  34. 34
    daytrips

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  35. 35
    This is just crazy

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  36. 36
    Smells like teen spirit

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  37. 37
    Smells like teen spirit

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  38. 38
    Feb 7 - The Hasbeens feat. Alden Tyrell [LIVE] @ Lunar Disko

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 87

  39. 39
    Need Some Big Containers

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links The Hill with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and rituals and customs. 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.

Source links

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Boards.ie sprint target

Next memory action for this pub

This pub is in the current Boards.ie Memory Productization Sprint. The goal is to turn useful forum traces, gossip, characters, regulars and source leads into readable public memory without treating them as verified facts.

Flagship editorial polish source checked editorial polish Score 309 flagship_editorial_polish-08
memorystorycharactersatmosphererituals and customsoddities and colour

Operator next step

Open the source links and turn the strongest themes into tighter, readable page copy without overclaiming.

Make the page feel alive without overclaiming: name the recurring themes, describe the room texture, and invite corrections or extra memories.

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