333) The Penny Black Tavern of Castletymon Road, Tymon North, Tallaght, D24

Perhaps Tallaght’s best-known pub. With its tall round-tower and various apexes it could have easily been a church. It’s cavernous with lots of knickknacks including an old-fashioned green post-box and lamppost. Partitions of stained-glass and alcoves are aplenty. Beamish bonds at €4.25. As Eamonn Casey points out in The Dublin Pub Saunter: ‘The Penny Black is very unusual in that it has been developed on the concept of the Penny Black stamp which came into existence on January 10th 1840.’ Perhaps Tallaght’s best pub? Perhaps, yet it served only to make one fonder than ever before of the familiar Lord Edward, to which we retreated afterwards with great relief (taking the wrong bus in the wrong direction in the process of our hasty escape).

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