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THE WATERSIDE HOUSE HOTEL Listed

BALCARRICK, DONABATE, Dublin

AddressBALCARRICK, DONABATE
CountyDublin
Licence refN1508

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Memory archive

Boards.ie memory links The Waterside House Hotel with old memories, music and sessions, regulars and characters and stories and gossip. 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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6 source leads · 2004-2010

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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 historyNotable events

Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref N1508 as a Publican's Licence (Ordinary) Hotel - BF - 1902 Act (Public Bar) for THE WATERSIDE HOUSE HOTEL at BALCARRICK, DONABATE in CO. DUBLIN with WATERSIDE HOSPITALITY LIMITED as licensee.[1] An Irish Independent report said a beauty and holistic treatment room called Bliss@The Waterside opened within The Waterside House Hotel in Donabate.[2]

Sources  (2)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Independent · "Time for some Waterside Bliss" · 2012-12-25

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Memory archive

Archive time depth

2004-2010

6 years of archive-metadata distance across 6 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

20042005200720092010
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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.

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Waterside House Hotel 6 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories. 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.

Source-linked story leads

  1. Wedding Venue - Dublin and Surroundings

    2009 · story

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What the Boards.ie trail is useful for

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Waterside House Hotel 6 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub and story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories. 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.

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Characters and room texture

The character lane has 1 signal for The Waterside House 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.

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time_depth

Archive time depth

The Waterside House Hotel has 6 dated source leads from 2004 to 2010, giving the page a 6-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

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Source trail

PubHub has 6 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.

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Story leads

Best Boards.ie memory leads

The Waterside House Hotel has 6 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, music and sessions, regulars and characters and stories and gossip. The strongest current lead points into "Wedding venue in Dublin for ~30 people"; 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 1 regulars-or-room-texture signal.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Wedding venue in Dublin for ~30 people

    2005 · memory · lead score 116

  2. Fire at a halting site in Dublin *Mod Warning Post #1*

    2010 · characters · lead score 115

  3. Wedding Venue - Dublin and Surroundings

    2004 · memory · lead score 109

  4. Wedding Venue - Dublin and Surroundings

    2009 · story · lead score 108

  5. How much to give at a wedding

    2007 · memory · lead score 103

Characters and room texture

  1. Fire at a halting site in Dublin *Mod Warning Post #1*

    2010 · characters · lead score 115

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

The Waterside House Hotel has 6 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, music and sessions, regulars and characters and stories and gossip. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Memory shape

Old memories, music and sessions, regulars and characters and stories and gossip

Correction loop

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Old memories

Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.

Music and sessions

Boards.ie memory links this pub with music, sessions, singing, gigs, or pub-night rhythm.

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.

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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    Wedding venue in Dublin for ~30 people

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  2. 2
    How much to give at a wedding

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  3. 3
    Wedding on a Budget - Help!

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  4. 4
    Fire at a halting site in Dublin *Mod Warning Post #1*

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  5. 5
    Wedding Venue - Dublin and Surroundings

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  6. 6
    Wedding Venue - Dublin and Surroundings

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

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