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The pubs which have shut in Moville down the years

Posted Saturday, May 16, 2009

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All Change

Since I came to Moville very few pubs have remained in the same ownership.

The only ones that haven't changed ownership are McGettigan's, Susies, Corner Bar and The Trawlerman (or at least haven't changed family).

They are obviously still open.

The other pubs that have remained open are Rosatos, Rawdons, Maguires, Town Clock and the Caiseal Mara, making 9 pubs in all still open.

More Than I Thought

I had thought that there had been 16 pubs in Moville but my father, Gerry snr., tells me that there used to be 18.

Would you know The Pack a' Poo, McConnell's, McCormick's, The Foyle Bar, Tracey's, McSheffrey's, McCorriston's, Smith's, The Step Inn and Carrigan's and what they are called now where they are still open?

The Pubs of Moville

Here is a list of them with their old names and their new names:-

1. Paddy Lafferty's, which became The Pack a' Poo, which became The Genshinney, which became The Shamrock, which became The Emerald and is now gone for good.

2. McConnell's which became McKinney's which became The Foyle hotel, which closed recently but will surely open again at some point.

3. The Prospect, which became The Waterfront, which burnt down a few months ago but will surely be rebuilt

4. McCormick's which became McCauley's, which became Packie's, which became The Trawlerman and is stll open

5. The Foyle Bar which became Terry's, which became The Eggman which became The Bar-A-Cuda which became The Claddagh and which is now closed but will surely be open again.

6. McGettigan's which has always been McGettigan's in living memory and is still open.

7. Susie's was always Susie's and is still open.

8. Divers (sometimes called Winnie's by locals) is closed now and will never reopen as it has been demolished.

9. Tracey's which became Keaveney's which became McNamara's, which became Caiseal Mara. It is still open.

10. The Corner Bar was always the Corner Bar and it is still open.

11. The Anchor which became the Hair of the Dog and is now closed although the building is still there, currently unused.

12. McSheffrey's which is long closed, which was up past Rawdons on the right hand side

13. Rawdons was always Rawdons and is still open

14. McDaid's which became The Step Inn which became the Mariners Arms which is now Rosatos and is still open

15. McCorriston's which was where Donal's butchers is now, and which, unless Donal is going to get a licence, has gone for good.

16. Carrigan's which became The Flowing Tide which became Maguires and which is still open

17. Smiths which became The Welcome Inn and which is long closed. It was up the Malin Road opposite Rawdons.

18. New Park which has been closed for a couple of decades now

Half Gone

So that means that exactly half of Moville's pubs are now gone.

Of course, for a town the size of Moville which has a population of 1,465 in the last census, and whose population has remained pretty even certainly for a few decades, 18 pubs was quite a lot.

That was one pub for every 81 people, man woman and child in the town.

Now that's down to one pub per every 163 people in the town.

I don't know whether you would think that this is too many or too few.

How many of them have you been in?