THE HUT

159 PHIBSBOROUGH ROAD, Dublin

Pub details

Address: 159 PHIBSBOROUGH ROAD
County: Dublin
Eircode: D07 HA21
Licence reference: N0234

Building and heritage

This public house makes an interesting contribution to the architectural character of the area around Doyle's Corner. Its traditional late nineteenth-century shopfront retains a number of early features including an unusual distorting mirror. A good Victorian interior survives intact. A public house was in operation on this site as early as 1832 and, ten years later, Michael Campion was named as the proprietor of a grocery and toddy shop. The Hut was described as a possible meeting place of extremists in a report (14th November 1894) by Assistant Commissioner John Mallon (1839-1915) of...

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What the archives say

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 history

Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref N0234 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE HUT at 159 PHIBSBOROUGH ROAD in DUBLIN CITY with INVER INNS LIMITED as licensee.^[1]

NIAH records The Hut as a Regional-rated public house dated 1895-1900 and notes its late nineteenth-century shopfront, surviving Victorian interior, and public-house use on the site by 1832.^[2]

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Established

Built between c.1895 and c.1900.

Architecture

Its traditional late nineteenth-century shopfront retains a number of early features including an unusual distorting mirror. A good Victorian interior survives intact. A public house was in operation on this site as early as 1832 and, ten years later, Michael Campion was named as the proprietor of a grocery and toddy shop.

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