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114 SOUTH MAIN STREET, WEXFORD

Address114 SOUTH MAIN STREET, WEXFORD
CountyWexford
Licence refWXP0011

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Boards.ie memory links The Foggy Dew Inn with music and sessions, old memories, regulars and characters 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.

Music and sessionsOld memoriesRegulars and charactersRoom atmosphere

8 source leads · 2003-2010

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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.

Listing historyNotable events

Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref WXP0011 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE FOGGY DEW INN at 114 SOUTH MAIN STREET, WEXFORD in CO. WEXFORD with MICHAEL MCDONALDS PUB LIMITED as licensee.[1] The Irish Independent reported that The Foggy Dew Inn in Wexford was badly damaged by a fire on 2021-02-08.[2]

Sources  (2)
  1. Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
  2. Irish Independent · "‘It’s my home and my business that’s gone up in flames'" · 2021-02-09

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Characters and room texture

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Archive time depth

2003-2010

7 years of archive-metadata distance across 7 dated Boards.ie archive leads.

200320042005200620082010
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.

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Foggy Dew Inn 8 readable forum-memory signals around music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub 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. Central Bank

    2003 · atmosphere, memory

  2. 2021 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

    atmosphere

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What people were talking about

Boards.ie gives The Foggy Dew Inn 8 readable forum-memory signals around music, singing, gigs, sessions, and the sound of the pub in forum memory, older recollections, changed routines, remembered visits, and traces of how the pub lived in people's routes, regulars, staff-memory, room characters, crowds, and the social texture around the pub 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.

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Characters and room texture

The character lane has 2 signals for The Foggy Dew Inn: 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 Foggy Dew Inn has 7 dated source leads from 2003 to 2010, giving the page a 7-year archive trail. That gives the pub page a memory layer across time, not just a single mention.

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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 Foggy Dew Inn has 8 readable Boards.ie memory signals around music and sessions, old memories, regulars and characters and atmosphere. The strongest current lead points into "why are there no J D Wetherspoon pubs in ROI?"; 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 2 regulars-or-room-texture signals.

Story, gossip and history leads

  1. why are there no J D Wetherspoon pubs in ROI?

    2004 · characters · lead score 121

  2. fog lights

    2010 · memory · lead score 118

  3. Central Bank

    2003 · atmosphere, memory · lead score 114

  4. 2021 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

    atmosphere · lead score 111

  5. live music where?

    2006 · music and sessions · lead score 100

Characters and room texture

  1. why are there no J D Wetherspoon pubs in ROI?

    2004 · characters · lead score 121

  2. 2021 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

    atmosphere · lead score 111

  3. regular folk who give you the horn.........

    2008 · characters · lead score 99

Archive profile

A Boards.ie forum trail

The Foggy Dew Inn has 8 readable Boards.ie memory matches around music and sessions, old memories, regulars and characters and atmosphere. PubHub V1 publishes this as forum memory: what people said online, connected back to source posts where possible.

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Memory shape

Music and sessions, old memories, regulars and characters and atmosphere

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Music and sessions

Boards.ie memory links this pub with music, sessions, singing, gigs, or pub-night rhythm.

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.

Room atmosphere

Boards.ie memory links this pub with room feel, recommendations, and how people described the place.

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
    live music where?

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  2. 2
    fog lights

    2010Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  3. 3
    regular folk who give you the horn.........

    2008Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 76

  4. 4
    Post your favourite Ballads

    2006Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  5. 5
    Central Bank

    2003Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  6. 6
    why are there no J D Wetherspoon pubs in ROI?

    2004Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

  7. 7
    BNP selling Irish Republican music

    2005Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 82

  8. 8
    2021 Irish Gigs (Confirmed & Rumoured Events)

    Boards V1 Raw Review MemoryScore 86

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