Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Summit Inn Hotel with old memories, regulars and characters, stories and gossip and local colour. 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.
8 source leads · 2002-2018
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 N0178 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE SUMMIT INN HOTEL at THORNMANBY ROAD, HOWTH in CO. DUBLIN with THE GAFFNEY PARTNERSHIP THOMAS AND JACQUELINE GAFFNEY, MARY O'CONNOR as licensee.[1]
In a planning appeal for retention permission at The Summit Inn, Thormanby Road, Howth (Planning Authority ref F23A/0106; An Coimisiun Pleanala ref PL06F.317282), An Coimisiun Pleanala refused permission on 2024-05-29 for partial change of use of car parking to an outdoor seating area with a kitchen and servery building, and for a bar and servery building to the front of the main building.[2]
Community memory
Archive time depth
16 years of archive-metadata distance across 8 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 Summit Inn Hotel 8 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories and odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in. 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.
2008 · memory, story
2013 · characters, 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 Summit Inn Hotel 8 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories and odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in. 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 Summit Inn 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 Summit Inn Hotel has 8 dated source leads from 2002 to 2018, giving the page a 16-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 8 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 Summit Inn Hotel has 8 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, regulars and characters, stories and gossip and local colour. The strongest current lead points into "'Welfare scrounge' family fumes over benefits story"; 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 · memory, story · lead score 128
2013 · characters, story · lead score 117
2009 · characters · lead score 106
2013 · memory · lead score 106
2007 · memory · lead score 106
2013 · characters, story · lead score 117
2009 · characters · lead score 106
2018 · characters · lead score 103
Archive profile
The Summit Inn Hotel has 8 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, regulars and characters, stories and gossip and local colour. 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, regulars and characters, stories and gossip and local colour
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.
Regulars and characters
Boards.ie memory links this pub with regulars, bar characters, staff roles, or social texture around the room.
Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Local colour
Boards.ie memory links this pub with odd details, local colour, and the kind of fragments that make pub pages more alive.
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.
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2018Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75
2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78
Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Summit Inn Hotel with old memories, regulars and characters, stories and gossip and local colour. 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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