Community memory
Boards.ie memory links The Temple with old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters 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.
55 source leads · 1998-2020
Read source trail🏭 Heritage-listed building
Built: c.1870 · NIAH rating: Regional
Temple Bar is named after Sir William Temple and his son Sir John Temple who acquired the land between the River Liffey and Dame Street in the seventeenth century. The area was fully reclaimed and developed by the early eighteenth century and became a mixed residential and commercial quarter. Commercial directories record J. Baker locksmith and general smith here in the mid-nineteenth century but by the late nineteenth century the building, along with those to the west, was in use as tenements, which may subsequently have been rebuilt. The brick, granite and timber sash windows are...
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 N0089 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE TEMPLE at 71 UPPER DORSET STREET AND 1 HARDWICK PLACE in DUBLIN CITY with QUAYKOFF TAVERNS LIMITED as licensee.[1]
NIAH records the associated building as a Regional-rated structure dated 1870-1890 and notes Temple Bar district history, nineteenth-century directory evidence, and surviving brick, granite, and timber-sash fabric.[2]
PubHub lore
Established
Built between c.1870 and c.1890.
Architecture
Temple Bar is named after Sir William Temple and his son Sir John Temple who acquired the land between the River Liffey and Dame Street in the seventeenth century. The area was fully reclaimed and developed by the early eighteenth century and became a mixed residential and commercial quarter. Commercial directories record J.
Community memory
Archive time depth
22 years of archive-metadata distance across 54 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.
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2006 · memory, story
1999 · 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
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 55 readable matches for The Temple, 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 4 signals for The Temple: 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 Temple has 54 dated source leads from 1998 to 2020, giving the page a 22-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 55 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 Temple has 55 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters and rituals and customs. The strongest current lead points into "The Marriage of Gays."; 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 4 regulars-or-room-texture signals.
2006 · memory, story · lead score 130
2010 · memory, story · lead score 130
2006 · memory, story · lead score 125
1999 · memory, story · lead score 122
2013 · characters, memory · lead score 122
2013 · characters, memory · lead score 122
2016 · characters, memory · lead score 122
2006 · story · lead score 115
2008 · story · lead score 115
2010 · story · lead score 115
High-volume or generic-name matches are flagged for source review before PubHub turns them into stronger editorial copy.
Archive profile
The Temple has 55 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters and rituals and customs. 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, local colour, regulars and characters 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.
Local colour
Boards.ie memory links this pub with odd details, local colour, and the kind of fragments that make pub pages more alive.
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.
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Boards.ie forum memory
Boards.ie memory links The Temple with old memories, stories and gossip, local colour, regulars and characters 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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