Dublin’s Snugs 

 

Authentic Snug criteria: 

  1. Must be a small space in a separate room from the rest of the pub.

  2. Must have a door for privacy.

  3. Must have a hatch connected to the bar to receive libations without leaving the confines of the snug.

  4. May have a lock on the door (optional).

  5. May have a bell to the bar (optional).

  6. May have half wood partitioning and half stained/frosted glass windows to allow light (optional).

False Snug criteria:

  1. Must be a small space in a separated area from the rest of the pub.

  2. Will not have the criteria 2 – 3 of the Authentic Snug.

  3. May have a combination of any of the other criteria (optional).

  • The Lord Edward

  • Toner’s (authentic)

  • Kehoe's (authentic)

  • Bowe's (authentic)

  • Fallon's

  • Neary’s

  • Doheny and Nesbitt's (authentic?)

  • The Palace Bar (authentic)

  • Jimmy Rabbite's (authentic)

  • Searson’s (authentic)

  • The Swan

  • Mary’s Bar & Hardware

  • Chaplins

  • McGrattans (authentic)

  • O’Neill’s, Suffolk Street

  • The Old Royal Oak (authentic)

  • Ryan's (authentic)

  • Walsh, J. & Co. of Blackhall Place (authentic)

  • The Oarsman

  • Kavanagh’s of Stoneybatter

  • McCaffrey's Hole in the Wall

  • Smyth’s, Ranelagh 

  • Madigan’s of Connolly Station

  • Madigan’s of North Earl Street

  • Molloy’s, Talbot Street

  • The Waterloo

  • The Hole in the Wall

  • The Thomas Moore Inn (Authentic, see: J.J.Smyth’s)

  • The Bottler’s Bank

  • Slattery’s, Rathmines, (authentic)

  • Rody Boland’s

  • Blackbird

  • Smyth’s of Haddington Road

  • Jack O’Rourke’s, Blackrock, open fire, snug, Beamish! Yet to visit)

  • Birchalls of Ranelagh 

  • Helys

  • The Cock Tavern of Howth

  • The Dalkey Duck

  • Jack Ryan’s (authentic snug?)

  • Gravediggers (authentic)