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PART OF GROD FLOOR OF 27& 30 PARLIAMENT ST & 2 ESSEX GATE, 1ST/2ND/3RD, FLOOR 27,28,29,30 PARLIAMENT ST & 2 ESSEX GATE & 4TH 5TH FLOOR OF 29 &, 30 PARLIAMENT STREET & ENTIRE 1 ESSEX GATE, 7 8 9 & 10 UPR EXCHANGE ST, Dublin
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Boards.ie memory links Turks Head Chop House with stories and gossip, old memories and story leads. 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.
3 source leads · 2003-2012
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Built: c.1850 · NIAH rating: Regional
The Turk's Head and Chop House tavern was established in 1760 and, like many buildings on Parliament Street, was rebuilt in the nineteenth century. The moulded brick articulates the front elevation and attests to the high quality of machine-made brick in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The timber sliding sash windows contribute to the building's patina of age. Historic maps show that the building was formerly numbered 16 and 17 Parliament Street. Thoms Directory of 1862 confirms that the original 'Turk's Head Chop House' tavern at number 16 Parliament Street had a change of...
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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 S3577 as a Publican's Licence (Ordinary) Hotel - BF - 1902 Act (Public Bar) for TURKS HEAD CHOP HOUSE at PART OF GROD FLOOR OF 27& 30 PARLIAMENT ST & 2 ESSEX GATE, 1ST/2ND/3RD, FLOOR 27,28,29,30 PARLIAMENT ST & 2 ESSEX GATE & 4TH 5TH FLOOR OF 29 &, 30 PARLIAMENT STREET & ENTIRE 1 ESSEX GATE, 7 8 9 & 10 UPR EXCHANGE ST in DUBLIN CITY with AMPBAY LIMITED as licensee.[1] An Irish Independent court report said a plaintiff told the Circuit Civil Court that he and friends had just left The Turks Head pub club in Temple Bar on 2003-07-04 at about 3am.[2]
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Established
Built between c.1850 and c.1870.
Architecture
The Turk's Head and Chop House tavern was established in 1760 and, like many buildings on Parliament Street, was rebuilt in the nineteenth century. The moulded brick articulates the front elevation and attests to the high quality of machine-made brick in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Community memory
Archive time depth
9 years of archive-metadata distance across 3 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 Turks Head Chop House 3 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes and fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local 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.
2012 · story
2003 · memory, story preface
2012 · story
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story_gossip
Boards.ie gives Turks Head Chop House 3 readable forum-memory signals around story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes and fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local 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.
time_depth
Turks Head Chop House has 3 dated source leads from 2003 to 2012, giving the page a 9-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.
source_depth
PubHub has 3 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
Turks Head Chop House has 3 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip, old memories and story leads. The strongest current lead points into "do you wear shoes indoors"; PubHub should keep it labelled as forum memory, then use corrections and source review to turn the best fragments into fuller local stories.
2012 · story · lead score 119
2003 · memory, story preface · lead score 114
2012 · story · lead score 114
Archive profile
Turks Head Chop House has 3 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip, old memories and story leads. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.
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Stories and gossip, old memories and story leads
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Stories and gossip
Boards.ie memory links this pub with story-shaped talk, gossip, rumours, and local claims worth surfacing as forum memory.
Old memories
Boards.ie memory links this pub with older recollections, changed habits, former routines, or remembered visits.
Story leads
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Archive source trail
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2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86
2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83
2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86
Boards.ie forum memory
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