Mccarthy's Hotel

McCarthy's was established in the 1850s by Richard McCarthy as a 'spirit merchant, restaurant, hotel, undertaker, draper, grocer, baker, hackney service, glass, delph and china shop' — a single Main Street operation answering to most of Fethard's daily needs.

Five generations of the same family. The present proprietor, Vincent Murphy — known to all as Jasper — is the fifth generation running pub, restaurant and undertaker side-by-side.

The undertaker's hearses are parked in the former livery stables out the back. The ground-floor rooms have served, at various times, as bar, restaurant, grocer's, hotel reception, and funeral arranger's office.