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Boards.ie memory links The Old Storehouse with stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, nights out and craic and music and sessions. 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.
63 source leads · 2002-2016
Read source trail🏭 Heritage-listed building
Built: c.1820 · NIAH rating: Regional
Crown Alley, a narrow, irregular passageway connecting Temple Bar and Dame Street, was laid out in the early eighteenth century. Following the construction of the Hapenny Bridge and Merchants Hall the Wide Street Commissioners took the opportunity to widen and improve the passageway. This is one of the finest surviving warehouses in the area, a building type that would have characterised Crown Alley in the mid-nineteenth century. Although it has been somewhat altered, it retains its historic form and character, with several distinctive features which are typical of warehouses, notably...
From 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 S2949 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE OLD STOREHOUSE at 3A CROWN ALLEY, TEMPLE BAR in DUBLIN CITY with EMGEN 4 LIMITED PARTNERSHIP as licensee.[1]
The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage records Leo Burdocks / The Old Storehouse at 1A-4 Crown Alley as a regional-rated building of architectural and social interest, gives its previous name as Oman and Sons, gives its original use as store/warehouse, and dates it to 1820-1840.[2]
Dublin City Council's week 18 planning list records a grant of permission dated 01/05/2025 for application 4426/24 at The Old Storehouse, 3 Crown Alley, Dublin 2 and the rear of 8 Cope Street, relating to works at a protected structure.[3]
The Irish Times reported in December 2009 that the company behind Eamonn Doran's pub and music venue had lost the Crown Alley premises and licence, and that the venue had reopened as 3 Crown Alley under a new operator.[4]
PubHub lore
Established
Built between c.1820 and c.1840.
Architecture
Crown Alley, a narrow, irregular passageway connecting Temple Bar and Dame Street, was laid out in the early eighteenth century. Following the construction of the Hapenny Bridge and Merchants Hall the Wide Street Commissioners took the opportunity to widen and improve the passageway.
Community memory
Archive time depth
14 years of archive-metadata distance across 63 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.
2008 · story
2009 · story
2005 · music and sessions, memory, story
2007 · memory, story
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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.
overmatch_review
Boards.ie produces 63 readable matches for The Old Storehouse, but the name or hit pattern is broad enough that PubHub should treat this as a source-mining queue before writing stronger lore. The links still preserve useful public memory leads.
characters
The character lane has 3 signals for The Old Storehouse: 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 Old Storehouse has 63 dated source leads from 2002 to 2016, 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 63 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 Old Storehouse has 63 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, nights out and craic and music and sessions. The strongest current lead points into "Cliffs of Moher now Pay Per View!"; 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.
2008 · story · lead score 131
2009 · story · lead score 131
2005 · music and sessions, memory, story · lead score 129
2007 · memory, story · lead score 124
2002 · story · lead score 123
2004 · characters · lead score 120
2011 · characters · lead score 120
2006 · characters · lead score 113
2007 · music and sessions · lead score 98
High-volume or generic-name matches are flagged for source review before PubHub turns them into stronger editorial copy.
Archive profile
The Old Storehouse has 63 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, nights out and craic and music and sessions. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
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Memory shape
Stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, nights out and craic and music and sessions
Correction loop
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Stories and gossip
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Old memories
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Regulars and characters
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Nights out
Boards.ie memory links this pub with nights out, banter, sessions, or lively pub-going talk.
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.
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Boards.ie forum memory
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