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THE HOLE IN THE WALL Notable

17 HIGH STREET, Kilkenny

Address17 HIGH STREET
CountyKilkenny
EircodeR95 TY30
Opening hoursFr-Sa 17:00-00:30
Licence ref1003564

Community memory

Memory archive

Boards.ie memory links The Hole in the Wall with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, local colour and atmosphere. 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.

Old memoriesStories and gossipRegulars and charactersLocal colour

19 source leads · 2002-2019

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♿ Not wheelchair accessible

🏭 Heritage-listed building

🆕 Notable pub

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Local notes

Music

Listed on thesession.org as a regular trad-session venue (2025-02-14 14:31:20).

Community memory

Memory archive

Archive time depth

2002-2019

17 years of archive-metadata distance across 18 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

20022003200420062007200820092010
Full Boards.ie archive, story leads and sourcesKept on the page, collapsed so rich pubs do not run for screens.

Flagship memory draft

The Hole in the Wall: Boards.ie memory worth building out

Boards.ie gives The Hole in the Wall a useful forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, characters and regulars, local colour and room atmosphere. PubHub is treating it as linked public memory, not settled fact.

The archive has 19 readable signals for The Hole in the Wall, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

The character lane is active here: 3 signals point toward regulars, staff-memory, crowds, roles, and room texture. PubHub should keep private people protected while preserving the sense of the room.

The source trail currently preserves 19 unique Boards.ie URLs for review. The dated archive span visible on the page is 2002-2019.

Generated V1 flagship draft. Before turning this into stronger editorial copy, open the linked sources, check pub identity, and keep corrections/removals easy.

Boards.ie editor brief

Readable memory note

Boards.ie gives The Hole in the Wall a source-linked forum-memory trail around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and room characters, oddities and local colour and atmosphere, with 19 readable signals preserved for review. The character lane adds 3 room-texture signals, pointing to regulars, crowds, roles or recurring pub talk without treating forum memory as verified fact.

19 readable signals 3 character signals
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This is an editor brief from source-linked forum memory. It is not a verified pub fact, and sensitive private-person claims stay out of public copy.

Stories and local colour

Gossip, odd details and pub atmosphere

The archive has 19 readable signals for The Hole in the Wall, with enough repetition to make this a good candidate for a fuller memory page. The useful material is the pattern: what people returned to, joked about, remembered, or argued over.

story gossip

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Hole in the Wall 19 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in and recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place. 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. Court removed to Kilkenny?

    2004 · characters, story

  2. bob dylan - O2 May

    2009 · memory, story

  3. Coolest jobs from a kid's point of view?

    2002 · craic, memory

  4. So was you know who right all along?

    2006 · atmosphere, memory

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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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Hole in the Wall 19 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, story-shaped forum talk, rumours, local claims, and fragments that could become fuller pub stories, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub, odd details, local colour, and the stray fragments that make the page feel lived-in and recommendations, atmosphere, room feel, and how people described the place. 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.

v1 forum memory

characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 3 signals for The Hole in the Wall: 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 Hole in the Wall has 18 dated source leads from 2002 to 2019, giving the page a 17-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 19 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 Hole in the Wall has 19 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, local colour and atmosphere. The strongest current lead points into "Court removed to Kilkenny?"; 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.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Court removed to Kilkenny?

    2004 · characters, story · lead score 136

  2. bob dylan - O2 May

    2009 · memory, story · lead score 131

  3. Coolest jobs from a kid's point of view?

    2002 · craic, memory · lead score 117

  4. So was you know who right all along?

    2006 · atmosphere, memory · lead score 117

  5. Social housing for non-EU nationals queried

    2011 · story · lead score 116

Characters and room texture

  1. Court removed to Kilkenny?

    2004 · characters, story · lead score 136

  2. Social housing for non-EU nationals queried

    2011 · story · lead score 116

  3. Court removed to Kilkenny?

    2012 · characters · lead score 114

  4. Ardenode Country House Hotel

    2007 · characters · lead score 113

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

The Hole in the Wall has 19 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, local colour and atmosphere. 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, regulars and characters, local colour and atmosphere

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.

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

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.

  1. 1
    Weirdest chat up line

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  2. 2
    Weirdest chat up line

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  3. 3
    free Nicky kelly

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  4. 4
    So was you know who right all along?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  5. 5
    Coolest jobs from a kid's point of view?

    2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  6. 6
    Heavy Weather....

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  7. 7
    Court removed to Kilkenny?

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  8. 8
    Court removed to Kilkenny?

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  9. 9
    Up Tipp

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  10. 10
    Up Tipp

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  11. 11
    pissing outside (not the weather)

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  12. 12
    Most embarrassing moment of your life?

    2019Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  13. 13
    16 year-old boy guilty of murdering Alesha MacPhail

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  14. 14
    16 year-old boy guilty of murdering Alesha MacPhail

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  15. 15
    The straw that broke the camel's back

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  16. 16
    The straw that broke the camel's back

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  17. 17
    Social housing for non-EU nationals queried

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  18. 18
    bob dylan - O2 May

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 81

  19. 19
    Ardenode Country House Hotel

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links The Hole in the Wall with old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, local colour and atmosphere. 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.

Source links

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Boards.ie sprint target

Next memory action for this pub

This pub is in the current Boards.ie Memory Productization Sprint. The goal is to turn useful forum traces, gossip, characters, regulars and source leads into readable public memory without treating them as verified facts.

Flagship editorial polish source checked editorial polish Score 253 flagship_editorial_polish-26
memorystorycharactersoddities and colouratmospherecraic

Operator next step

Open the source links and turn the strongest themes into tighter, readable page copy without overclaiming.

Make the page feel alive without overclaiming: name the recurring themes, describe the room texture, and invite corrections or extra memories.

Browse the full lane on the Boards.ie sprint board.