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RATHKEALE, Limerick

AddressRATHKEALE
CountyLimerick
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Community memory

Memory archive

Boards.ie memory links The Black Lion with stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour 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.

Stories and gossipOld memoriesRegulars and charactersLocal colour

62 source leads · 1999-2020

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Community memory

Memory archive

Archive time depth

1999-2020

21 years of archive-metadata distance across 59 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

19992003200420052006200720082009
Full Boards.ie archive, story leads and sourcesKept on the page, collapsed so rich pubs do not run for screens.

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.

Source-linked story leads

  1. So 4 travellers walk into a bar.....

    2008 · characters, story

  2. A&E in Limerick..are you actually serious?

    2003 · story

  3. Interesting wee read on Ireland's Slave history.

    2012 · story

  4. Teachers and unrurly pupils.

    1999 · 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

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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Big archive trail, needs match review

Boards.ie produces 62 readable matches for The Black Lion, 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.

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Characters and room texture

The character lane has 12 signals for The Black Lion: 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 Black Lion has 59 dated source leads from 1999 to 2020, giving the page a 21-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

archive context

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Source trail

PubHub has 62 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 Black Lion has 62 readable Boards.ie memory signals around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour and rituals and customs. The strongest current lead points into "So 4 travellers walk into a bar....."; 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 12 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. So 4 travellers walk into a bar.....

    2008 · characters, story · lead score 142

  2. A&E in Limerick..are you actually serious?

    2003 · story · lead score 127

  3. Interesting wee read on Ireland's Slave history.

    2012 · story · lead score 122

  4. Teachers and unrurly pupils.

    1999 · story · lead score 122

  5. Poitin

    2007 · characters, story · lead score 120

Characters and room texture

  1. So 4 travellers walk into a bar.....

    2008 · characters, story · lead score 142

  2. Poitin

    2007 · characters, story · lead score 120

  3. Unusual characters you've met along the way

    2006 · characters, memory · lead score 115

  4. Instead of arming Gardai

    2010 · characters · lead score 114

  5. Instead of arming Gardai

    2007 · characters · lead score 114

High-volume or generic-name matches are flagged for source review before PubHub turns them into stronger editorial copy.

Archive profile

A wide Boards.ie forum trail

The Black Lion has 62 readable Boards.ie memory matches around stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour and rituals and customs. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Boards.ie readable-first raw review queue

Memory shape

Stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour 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.

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.

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
    Time to call out the horse racing industry

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  2. 2
    Limerick paedophile ring: arrests made.

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  3. 3
    So 4 travellers walk into a bar.....

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  4. 4
    What exactly is the problem with bestiality?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  5. 5
    General Knowledge

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  6. 6
    Teachers and unrurly pupils.

    1999Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  7. 7
    FA called to investigate 'monkey' joke.

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  8. 8
    Spookiest experience of your life

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  9. 9
    Spookiest experience of your life

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  10. 10
    A&E in Limerick..are you actually serious?

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  11. 11
    Is Limerick Really THAT bad?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  12. 12
    Quite a strange thread

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  13. 13
    Tall tales, urban legends and spoofers

    2020Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  14. 14
    Brush Shiels

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  15. 15
    Do you think ISIS/Al Queda terror will end eventually?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  16. 16
    What was the strangest night out you ever had?

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  17. 17
    The worst punishment imposed by your parents

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  18. 18
    Racist Ireland

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  19. 19
    Skanger Stories

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  20. 20
    Taxi fares to go up 8%

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  21. 21
    Most you have won on Lotto??

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  22. 22
  23. 23
    Missing person Steven Kavanagh - RIP

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  24. 24
    Travellers jailed for attacking Gardai

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  25. 25
  26. 26
  27. 27
    Best urban legend you ever heard

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  28. 28
    Judge appalled at video of Gardai

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  29. 29
    Judge appalled at video of Gardai

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  30. 30
    Judge appalled at video of Gardai

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  31. 31
    When did the Stab City phrase first get coined?

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  32. 32
    More Scumbags let off Scot Free -Daily Grind here

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  33. 33
    Unusual characters you've met along the way

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  34. 34
    Another example of IGNORANT Irish women

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  35. 35
    Should we be allowed to use force to protect our homes?

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  36. 36
    Nye at Trinity Rooms Limerick

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  37. 37
    Putting on a music Festival

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  38. 38
    Serious crash on N17

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  39. 39
    Bad Day on the Eastside :(

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  40. 40
    Bad Day on the Eastside :(

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  41. 41
    need to hire a suit

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  42. 42
    Interesting wee read on Ireland's Slave history.

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  43. 43
    Interesting wee read on Ireland's Slave history.

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  44. 44
    Missing person Limerick/Clare Steven Kavanagh

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  45. 45
    Ireland's best black pud

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  46. 46
    Ireland's best black pud

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  47. 47
    Dirty Stories From nightclubs

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  48. 48
    Dirty Stories From nightclubs

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  49. 49
    Instead of arming Gardai

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  50. 50
    Instead of arming Gardai

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  51. 51
    Instead of arming Gardai

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  52. 52
    Limerick a candidate to host the 2018 Gay Olympics

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  53. 53
    Oliver Cromwell: Son Of A Bitch

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  54. 54
    Banana thrown at black player in Limerick

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 83

  55. 55
    Steve Collins leaves Ireland

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  56. 56
    Steve Collins leaves Ireland

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  57. 57
    Poitin

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  58. 58
    Whats the problem with tabloids you snobby cnuts??

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  59. 59
    All the lies that they told us

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  60. 60
    KODE pres Sunil Sharpe 21-4-16

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  61. 61
    Google StreetView car in area?

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  62. 62
    New Self defense club - Urban Krav Maga Northern Ireland

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links The Black Lion with stories and gossip, old memories, regulars and characters, local colour 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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