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Muldowney's pub, 74 Old Kilmainham, Dublin

Muldowney's pub, 74 Old Kilmainham, Dublin.
SW corner of junction of Old Kilmainham and Brookfield Road.
Just S of Royal Hospital Kilmainham.
Just N of South Circular Rd and Rialto Bridge and Portmahon House.

The pub has a sign on it saying "est 1837".
P.V. Muldowney is listed as running the pub here in [Thom's] from 1890 to his death in 1928.
After marriage in 1899, he did not live at the pub. The family home was elsewhere.
After his death in 1928, his sons Paddy and Joe Muldowney ran the pub for decades.
The pub is listed as Muldowney's in [Thom's] up to 1972.
The pub was sold by the Muldowneys c.1972.
It became "Carrigans" pub, 72-74 Old Kilmainham, Dublin 8.
It is now derelict. There is a plan to demolish it.

The now derelict "Carrigans" pub (formerly Muldowney's), 74 Old Kilmainham.
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From Google Street View.
At corner of Brookfield Rd. See map.

Old Kilmainham on Ordnance Survey of Ireland map. Date created: 1889. From here.
Muldowney's pub is at the corner, below "KILMAINHAM".
LHS of the corner.

• This 1889 map calls the laneway Watery Lane.
• [Thom's, 1894, p.1439] calls it Commons Lane.
• It is now called Brookfield Road.
• Some searching shows this is all the same place.

"Carrigans" pub (formerly Muldowney's), 74 Old Kilmainham.
Photo 2007. See full size and similar shot.

"Carrigans" pub.
Photo 2007. See full size.

"Carrigans" pub, 2006. From here.
From J. Yanich (see blog). Used with permission.