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OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, OLDCASTLE, Meath

AddressOLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, OLDCASTLE
CountyMeath
PlaceOldcastle
Licence ref1010786

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120 source leads · 1999-2016

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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.

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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref 1010786 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE CASTLE CINEMA at OLIVER PLUNKETT STREET, OLDCASTLE in CO. MEATH with LYNPHARM LIMITED as licensee.[1]

NIAH records Castle Cinema, Oliver Plunkett Street, Oldcastle, as a regional-rated building of architectural, social and technical special interest, originally used as a cinema and built in 1944.[2] NIAH states that the cinema closed in 1981 and was disused when recorded in 2002.[2] Irish Independent coverage in 2004 said the Oldcastle property had housed Castle Cinema and Clarke's Cash & Carry, with the former cinema built in 1938 and formerly having a 600-seat capacity.[3] Meath Chronicle reported in 2024 that public viewing for a bar-memorabilia auction, including a reconstructed Kennedy's of Mount Merrion pub interior, was available in Castle Cinema in Oldcastle.[4]

Sources  (4)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. NIAH · Registry entry, ref. 14306013 · 2002-04-18
  3. Irish Independent · "Unique investment opportunity comes to market in Oldcastle" · 2004-03-26
  4. Meath Chronicle · "Lots up for grabs from iconic Dublin pub in online auction as public viewing available in Oldcastle" · 2024-05-17

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Archive time depth

1999-2016

17 years of archive-metadata distance across 115 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

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  1. Bailey point, Salthill and other stuff

    2012 · memory, story

  2. Are you Irish??

    2004 · story

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Characters and room texture

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Archive time depth

The Castle Cinema has 115 dated source leads from 1999 to 2016, giving the page a 17-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

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The Castle Cinema has 120 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. The strongest current lead points into "Let's do the timewarp again"; 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. Let's do the timewarp again

    2007 · characters · lead score 133

  2. Let's do the timewarp again

    2009 · characters · lead score 133

  3. Let's do the timewarp again

    2009 · characters · lead score 133

  4. Bailey point, Salthill and other stuff

    2012 · memory, story · lead score 126

  5. Are you Irish??

    2004 · story · lead score 126

Characters and room texture

  1. Let's do the timewarp again

    2007 · characters · lead score 133

  2. Let's do the timewarp again

    2009 · characters · lead score 133

  3. Let's do the timewarp again

    2009 · characters · lead score 133

  4. Do popcorn makers think we have a really active sex life

    2009 · characters · lead score 118

  5. Why do people say.....

    2008 · characters · lead score 117

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A wide Boards.ie forum trail

The Castle Cinema has 120 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, stories and gossip, regulars and characters, atmosphere and music and sessions. 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

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Regulars and characters

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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
    What's the definition of Irish begrudgery

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  2. 2
    Our nations self destruction

    2016Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  3. 3
    Why do people think that you're weird?

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  4. 4
  5. 5
    Need ideas for cover letter

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  6. 6
    Need ideas for cover letter

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  7. 7
    Need ideas for cover letter

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  8. 8
    Best thing you ever found

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  9. 9
    Inappropriate Clapping

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  10. 10
    Fear of going to the cinema alone?...

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  11. 11
    Fear of going to the cinema alone?...

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  12. 12
    If you could wake up anywhere in the world tomorrow.......

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  13. 13
    Irish Nostalgia.

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  14. 14
    Why do people say.....

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  15. 15
    Why do people say.....

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  16. 16
    Are you Irish??

    2000Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  17. 17
    Are you Irish??

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  18. 18
    Wow. This is unbelievably scary.

    2000Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  19. 19
    pubs/clubs to bring the girlfriend to?

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  20. 20
    Castlepalooza Music Festival 2013 - Aug 2nd - 4th

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  21. 21
    Castlepalooza Music Festival 2013 - Aug 2nd - 4th

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  22. 22
    Trim Castle

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  23. 23
    Gallagh castle

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  24. 24
    Old Tower, Merlin Woods

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  25. 25
    Free Heroin!

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  26. 26
    Free Heroin!

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  27. 27
    Free Heroin!

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  28. 28
    Free Heroin!

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  29. 29
    Free Heroin!

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  30. 30
    where do you miss?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  31. 31
    Feet First

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  32. 32
  33. 33
    The old Capitol Cinema

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  34. 34
    Help trying to remember a pubs name

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  35. 35
    Ardmulchan House

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  36. 36
    It's 1993

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  37. 37
    It's 1993

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  38. 38
  39. 39
    What age did you stop getting asked for ID?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  40. 40
    Is it wierd to go to the cinema on your own?

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  41. 41
    Is it wierd to go to the cinema on your own?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  42. 42
    Major Cinema pain

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  43. 43
    Are country folk a generation behind the townies?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  44. 44
    What's the best way you ever dumped a chick?

    2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  45. 45
    Do you get regular checks for STD's?

    2000Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  46. 46
    Grand venue v GRAND venue

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  47. 47
    Top 10 Pubs (City Centre)

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  48. 48
    Mahon Point Cinema: Rip Off

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  49. 49
    Date Night

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  50. 50
    Cinema and The Forum

    2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  51. 51
    Cinema and The Forum

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  52. 52
    Do you know these places?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 80

  53. 53
    Do you know these places?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  54. 54
    TK Maxx opening in Navan Retail Park

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  55. 55
    TK Maxx opening in Navan Retail Park

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  56. 56
  57. 57
    Living alone, yay or nay?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  58. 58
    Will you see the new Star Wars film?

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  59. 59
    Will you see the new Star Wars film?

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  60. 60
    Favourite director...

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  61. 61
    Favourite director...

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  62. 62
    Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

    2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  63. 63
    Your very first memory of TV or a movie?

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  64. 64
    Behavior in cinema

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  65. 65
    Behavior in cinema

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  66. 66
    5c or 10c Refunds for Cans and Bottles

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  67. 67
    Deaf people and Cinemas.. Just accept your lot?

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  68. 68
    Out of Control Children in Restaurants / Public Places

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  69. 69
    Just back from cinema, what a fcuking rip off!

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  70. 70
    How influential was the Catholic Church in Irish censorship?

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  71. 71
    WHAT IS THE WORST DATE YOU WHERE EVER ON

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  72. 72
    WHAT IS THE WORST DATE YOU WHERE EVER ON

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  73. 73
    Do popcorn makers think we have a really active sex life

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  74. 74
    Stay away from Midlands Cinemas.

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  75. 75
    2018 Irish Gigs (Rumours & Confirmed Events)

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  76. 76
    Bailey point, Salthill and other stuff

    2012Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  77. 77
    Lough Atalia 100 acres of untapped amenity

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  78. 78
    aran islands

    2011Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  79. 79
    Bring back the Sex Kitchen

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  80. 80
    Lidi in Oranmore

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  81. 81
    Menlo Castle and the millionaire

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  82. 82
    Menlo Castle and the millionaire

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  83. 83
    Mobile barber's

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  84. 84
    Capitol Cineplex Memories

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  85. 85
    Mahon Point Omniplex .. Price increases? Rippoff?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  86. 86
    Shakespeare sounded American?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  87. 87
  88. 88
    Anyone else here remember when cinemas were good?

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  89. 89
    Anyone else here remember when cinemas were good?

    2014Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  90. 90
    Anyone else here remember when cinemas were good?

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  91. 91
    Is Pulp Fiction the Best Film ever?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  92. 92
    What's great about being single?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  93. 93
    What's great about being single?

    2013Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  94. 94
    What's great about being single?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  95. 95
    50 Shades of Grey Phenomenom?!

    2001Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  96. 96
    Ideas on somewhere to bring a girl on a date

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  97. 97
  98. 98
    Why do we drink? Seriously

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  99. 99
    Let's do the timewarp again

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  100. 100
    Let's do the timewarp again

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  101. 101
    Let's do the timewarp again

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  102. 102
    Irish People abroad.

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  103. 103
    First Single or Album You Bought? First Cinema Experience?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  104. 104
  105. 105
    D!ckheads in the cinema

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  106. 106
    D!ckheads in the cinema

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  107. 107
    Do you remember your first kiss,love!!

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  108. 108
    Do you remember your first kiss,love!!

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  109. 109
    First gig you went to?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  110. 110
    Salthill nightclubs of old

    1999Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  111. 111
    Bring back Vagabonds !!!!

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  112. 112
    Old advertising notices on walls of Premises

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  113. 113
    2 Euro Shop Patrick Street

    2007Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  114. 114
    Mahon Point... The verdict??

    2002Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  115. 115
    New Cinema

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

  116. 116
    Is Trim Castle Hotel Haunted.

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  117. 117
    Navan Cinema

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  118. 118
    Food in Trim?

    2009Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  119. 119
    Food in Trim?

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  120. 120
    Food in Trim?

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

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