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The Battle for the Oldest Pub in Ireland

Return to The Irish Pub Contents On New Year’s Eve 1993, I had the great privilege of attending the wake of Big Bertha at the Blackwater Tavern in County Kerry. This majestic lady, a Dremon cow, had died that same morning, just three months short of her 49th birthday. Fourteen years later, she still boasts two entries […]