Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Mont Clare Hotel with old memories, stories and gossip, story leads, regulars and characters and atmosphere. 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.
22 source leads · 2001-2022
Read source trailFrom the record · Verified background
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 S0052 as a Publican's Licence (Ordinary) Hotel - BF - 1902 Act (Public Bar) for THE MONT CLARE HOTEL at 13/14 CLARE STREET AND, 1/4 LOWER MERRION STREET in DUBLIN CITY with PERSIAN PROPERTIES as licensee.[1]
Irish Times coverage in 2017 of Noel O'Callaghan's hotel interests said that, in addition to the adjacent Alexander and Davenport properties in Dublin, he also owned the nearby Mont Clare hotel, the Stephen's Green hotel, the Elliot hotel in Gibraltar and a US hotel in Annapolis, Maryland.[2]
Community memory
Archive time depth
21 years of archive-metadata distance across 22 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 Mont Clare Hotel 22 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, fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local stories, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place. 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.
2013 · story
2010 · story
2004 · 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 Mont Clare Hotel 22 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, fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local stories, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place. 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.
characters
The character lane has 3 signals for The Mont Clare Hotel: 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.
time_depth
The Mont Clare Hotel has 22 dated source leads from 2001 to 2022, giving the page a 21-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 22 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 Mont Clare Hotel has 22 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, story leads, regulars and characters and atmosphere. The strongest current lead points into "kilkee bay hotel"; 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 3 regulars-or-room-texture signals.
2013 · story · lead score 129
2010 · characters, memory · lead score 127
2014 · characters, memory · lead score 127
2010 · story · lead score 121
2004 · story · lead score 121
2010 · characters, memory · lead score 127
2014 · characters, memory · lead score 127
2011 · memory · lead score 120
2009 · story · lead score 120
2022 · characters · lead score 113
Archive profile
The Mont Clare Hotel has 22 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, story leads, regulars and characters and atmosphere. 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, story leads, regulars and characters and atmosphere
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.
Story leads
Boards.ie memory contains fragments that look like starting points for fuller pub stories.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
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.
2018Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 77
2018Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2017Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2022Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2001Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80
2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Mont Clare Hotel with old memories, stories and gossip, story leads, regulars and characters and atmosphere. 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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