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COOLDRINAGH, LEIXLIP, Dublin

AddressCOOLDRINAGH, LEIXLIP
CountyDublin
EircodeW23 PD34
Licence ref1011787

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Boards.ie memory links The Salmon Leap 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.

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128 source leads · 1999-2021

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🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1840 · NIAH rating: Regional

A simple, well-proportioned street-fronted public house, located on a prominent corner just outside Leixlip village.

From the record · Verified background

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 1011787 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE SALMON LEAP at COOLDRINAGH, LEIXLIP in CO. DUBLIN with RUSHWAY LIMITED as licensee.[1]

NIAH records the associated building as a Regional-rated public house dated 1840-1860 and describes it as a simple, well-proportioned street-fronted building on a prominent corner outside Leixlip village.[2]

Sources  (2)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 11201003 · 2026-05-12

PubHub lore

Local notes

Established

Built between c.1840 and c.1860.

Architecture

A simple, well-proportioned street-fronted public house, located on a prominent corner just outside Leixlip village.

Community memory

Memory archive

Archive time depth

1999-2021

22 years of archive-metadata distance across 117 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

19992000200220032004200520062007
Full Boards.ie archive, story leads and sourcesKept on the page, collapsed so rich pubs do not run for screens.

Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

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.

Source-linked story leads

  1. Restaurant Recommendation Thread - Anyone for seconds?

    2021 · story

  2. eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2009 · memory, story

  3. eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2011 · memory, story

  4. eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2011 · 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.

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Big archive trail, needs match review

Boards.ie produces 128 readable matches for The Salmon Leap, 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.

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characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 11 signals for The Salmon Leap: 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 Salmon Leap has 117 dated source leads from 1999 to 2021, giving the page a 22-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 128 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 Salmon Leap has 128 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 "Restaurant Recommendation Thread - Anyone for seconds?"; 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 11 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Restaurant Recommendation Thread - Anyone for seconds?

    2021 · story · lead score 138

  2. eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2009 · memory, story · lead score 136

  3. eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2011 · memory, story · lead score 136

  4. eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2011 · memory, story · lead score 136

  5. Coolmine community school

    2004 · characters, memory, story · lead score 136

Characters and room texture

  1. Restaurant Recommendation Thread - Anyone for seconds?

    2021 · story · lead score 138

  2. Coolmine community school

    2004 · characters, memory, story · lead score 136

  3. What do you hate about Irish Media - Papers / TV / Radio

    2010 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 136

  4. What do you hate about Irish Media - Papers / TV / Radio

    2005 · characters, atmosphere, memory · lead score 136

  5. Fellini's gone....

    2004 · characters · lead score 122

High-volume or generic-name matches are flagged for source review before PubHub turns them into stronger editorial copy.

Archive profile

A wide Boards.ie forum trail

The Salmon Leap has 128 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.

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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.

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  2. 2
    How Often Do You Rustle Up A Meal From Scratch?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  3. 3
    Vegetarian

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  4. 4
    The hazards of Medieval life

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  5. 5
    The hazards of Medieval life

    2019Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  6. 6
    Animals or humans

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  7. 7
    Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

    2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  8. 8
    Nostalgia ain't what it used to be

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  9. 9
    What's the sickest you've been?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  10. 10
    What's the sickest you've been?

    2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  11. 11
    What Hardybucks character are you?

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  12. 12
  13. 13
    Mother's Home Cooking

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  14. 14
    Mother's Home Cooking

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  15. 15
    Mother's Home Cooking

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  16. 16
    john candy or john goodman?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  17. 17
    john candy or john goodman?

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  18. 18
    Things others have convinced you of/ made you believe

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  19. 19
    Old start to organise

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  20. 20
    Fool's errands...

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  21. 21
    Fool's errands...

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  22. 22
    Things that have been done to embarrassing death

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  23. 23
    Salmon Weir gets new bridge

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  24. 24
    Ice photos

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  25. 25
    Old Town/Municipal Outdoor Pool on Markiewicz Road

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  26. 26
    Options for Take Away in D15 - a suggestion list

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  27. 27
    Mental prices at Gleesons butchers Blanchardstown

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  28. 28
    'Honesty' water - do you pay?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  29. 29
    'Honesty' water - do you pay?

    2019Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  30. 30
    What are ye eatin'? (NOW WITH DRINKING!!!)

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  31. 31
    Hospital consultants and their pay deal

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  32. 32
  33. 33
    How much do you drink?

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  34. 34
    would you be embarassed by fussy eating?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  35. 35
    Vegetarian - Yes or No?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  36. 36
    Confession Box Thread: the worst thing you ever did?

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  37. 37
    Confession Box Thread: the worst thing you ever did?

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  38. 38
    Confession Box Thread: the worst thing you ever did?

    2017Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  39. 39
    English to Irish translation? Any good at the auld Irish?

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  40. 40
    1000 year old cure for MRSA

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  41. 41
    1000 year old cure for MRSA

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  42. 42
    Will you eat meat tomorrow

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  43. 43
    Are you any good at cooking

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  44. 44
    Isn't eternal life just as bad as eternal death?

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  45. 45
    Salmon Farm Controversy

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  46. 46
    Salmon Farm Controversy

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  47. 47
    Salmon Farm Controversy

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  48. 48
    Salmon Farm Controversy

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  49. 49
    SEX

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  50. 50
    SEX

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  51. 51
    first baby of the year..

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  52. 52
    IRA want their Drugs Back

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  53. 53
    The Loch Ness Monster

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  54. 54
    Things you were told- and you knew straight away it was bull

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  55. 55
    Things you were told- and you knew straight away it was bull

    2000Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  56. 56
    God & Child abuse?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  57. 57
  58. 58
  59. 59
    Losing your religion?

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  60. 60
    Leo O Kelly 'Will'- Album Launch

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  61. 61
    Fellini's gone....

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  62. 62
    Durty Nelly's

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  63. 63
    Durty Nelly's

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  64. 64
    Covid-19

    2020Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  65. 65
    Libraries nationwide abolish fines for overdue items

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  66. 66
    After Hours Exit Poll

    2017Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  67. 67
    After Hours Exit Poll

    2017Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  68. 68
    After Hours Exit Poll

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  69. 69
    A Black Irish President of Ireland by 2025 ?

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  70. 70
    Do you know where you were on 7th December 2000?

    2016Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  71. 71
    Full At The International Airport

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  72. 72
    Real or satire?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  73. 73
    Usage of dishwasher

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  74. 74
    how long is considered unacceptable?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  75. 75
    how long is considered unacceptable?

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  76. 76
    how long is considered unacceptable?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  77. 77
    What do you hate about Irish Media - Papers / TV / Radio

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  78. 78
    What do you hate about Irish Media - Papers / TV / Radio

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  79. 79
    Weird food habits

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  80. 80
    After Hours super duper mega Christmas thread 2012...

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  81. 81
    After Hours super duper mega Christmas thread 2012...

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  82. 82
    Bizarre/dirty/scary scenes stories on streets

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  83. 83
    I found an insect in a bottle of pepsi

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  84. 84
  85. 85
    Colour Blind

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  86. 86
    Colour Blind

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  87. 87
    worms

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  88. 88
    Responsibility Family or State?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  89. 89
    Silly story thread

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  90. 90
    Silly story thread

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  91. 91
    No meal choice on menu

    2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  92. 92
    Yellow stripes at Taylors Hill School

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  93. 93
    Hydroelectric Salmon Weir

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  94. 94
    Hydroelectric Salmon Weir

    1999Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  95. 95
    Hydroelectric Salmon Weir

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  96. 96
    Hydroelectric Salmon Weir

    1999Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  97. 97
    Nice Restaurant for Friday

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  98. 98
    Did someone fall into the spanish arch?

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  99. 99
    Restaurant Recommendation Thread - Anyone for seconds?

    2021Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  100. 100
    The Restaurant Recommendation Thread

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  101. 101
    The Restaurant Recommendation Thread

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  102. 102
    The Restaurant Recommendation Thread

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  103. 103
    The Restaurant Recommendation Thread

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  104. 104
    The Briar Rose Pub in Douglas

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  105. 105
    Getting residents parking

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  106. 106
    Coolmine community school

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  107. 107
    Coolmine community school

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  108. 108
    Coolmine community school

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  109. 109
    Jack Charlton has died

    2019Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  110. 110
    After Hours Presidential Election Poll

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  111. 111
    Who's the best leader in the world?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  112. 112
    Social welfare privatisation

    2018Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  113. 113
    Social welfare privatisation

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  114. 114
    RIP Adam West

    2015Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  115. 115
  116. 116
    What should Ireland have?

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  117. 117
    Children at weddings

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  118. 118
    Catholic Traditions

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  119. 119
    eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  120. 120
    eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  121. 121
    eel swims up mans cock, ow!! :0

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  122. 122
    Whats the strangest thing you found in your bed?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  123. 123
    Good Friday and no meat.

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  124. 124
    Good Puns

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  125. 125
    Banning hoodies - breach of freedom?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  126. 126
    SURGE Presents CRISTIAN VOGEL, LIEF RYAN +MASSPLANCK

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  127. 127
    Outer City Bypass

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  128. 128
    price of wild salmon from corrib river . wow

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

Boards.ie forum memory

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