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THE THREE JOLLY PIGEONS Heritage

BAWN, THE PIGEONS, Westmeath

AddressBAWN, THE PIGEONS
CountyWestmeath
Licence refATP124

Community memory

Memory archive

Boards.ie memory links The Three Jolly Pigeons with old memories, nights out and craic, story leads, rituals and customs and regulars and characters. 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 memoriesNights outStory leadsRituals and customs

8 source leads · 2005-2010

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🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1800 · NIAH rating: Regional

An attractive and prominently-sited mid nineteenth-century public house, which retains its early character despite the loss of important early fabric and fittings. The single-storey section to the north with the thatched roof may be the original structure but this is difficult to ascertain and, equally, this could be a twentieth century addition built for picturesque effect. This modest structure is named after the 'Three Jolly Pigeons', a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith's renowned play 'She Stoops to Conquer', written in 1773. However, the original pub of this...

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Local notes

Established

Built between c.1800 and c.1870.

Architecture

An attractive and prominently-sited mid nineteenth-century public house, which retains its early character despite the loss of important early fabric and fittings. The single-storey section to the north with the thatched roof may be the original structure but this is difficult to ascertain and, equally, this could be a twentieth century addition…

Community memory

Memory archive

Archive time depth

2005-2010

5 years of archive-metadata distance across 8 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

2005200620082010
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.

story gossip

What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Three Jolly Pigeons 8 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, nights out, banter, sessions, lively talk, and social energy around the room, fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local stories, repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms and regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub. 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.

This is labelled forum memory: useful gossip, local claims and colour from source-linked public discussion, not PubHub treating the claims as settled fact.

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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 Three Jolly Pigeons 8 readable forum-memory signals around older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, nights out, banter, sessions, lively talk, and social energy around the room, fragments that look like starting points for fuller memories or local stories, repeated habits, match days, late-bar routines, quizzes, lock-ins, or other house rhythms and regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub. 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.

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characters

Characters and room texture

The character lane has 1 signal for The Three Jolly Pigeons: 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.

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time_depth

Archive time depth

The Three Jolly Pigeons has 8 dated source leads from 2005 to 2010, giving the page a 5-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 8 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 Three Jolly Pigeons has 8 readable Boards.ie memory signals around old memories, nights out and craic, story leads, rituals and customs and regulars and characters. The strongest current lead points into "Woolly Mammoth resurrection - I'll believe it when I see it . . ."; 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 1 regulars-or-room-texture signal.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. Woolly Mammoth resurrection - I'll believe it when I see it . . .

    2005 · memory · lead score 121

  2. Do You Have a Pet

    2006 · memory · lead score 113

  3. Broadband near Gurteen

    2008 · characters · lead score 110

  4. Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens) Jeered and Heckled at comeback gig

    2006 · memory · lead score 106

  5. Kids movies/stories/programmes that scared the bejesus out of you as a child

    2005 · story · lead score 106

Characters and room texture

  1. Broadband near Gurteen

    2008 · characters · lead score 110

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

The Three Jolly Pigeons has 8 readable Boards.ie memory matches around old memories, nights out and craic, story leads, rituals and customs and regulars and characters. 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

Old memories, nights out and craic, story leads, rituals and customs and regulars and characters

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.

Nights out

Boards.ie memory links this pub with nights out, banter, sessions, or lively pub-going talk.

Story leads

Boards.ie memory contains fragments that look like starting points for fuller pub stories.

Rituals and customs

Boards.ie memory links this pub with repeated habits, late bars, quiz nights, lock-ins, sessions, or house routines.

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.

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    The Live In Running World Cup Thread for After Hours.

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  3. 3
    Broadband near Gurteen

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 75

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  5. 5
    Do You Have a Pet

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 85

  6. 6
    Your most embarrassing school moment

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

  7. 7
    Your most embarrassing school moment

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

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    Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens) Jeered and Heckled at comeback gig

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 78

Boards.ie forum memory

Boards.ie memory links The Three Jolly Pigeons with old memories, nights out and craic, story leads, rituals and customs and regulars and characters. 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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