How many of these have you had a pint in?
Ireland is renowned all over the world for its pubs and is home to a reported 7,000 of them.
In fact, given the sheer amount of taverns, one imagines it would be quite hard to select just a small few to single out as being among the greatest.
However, that's just what the ambitious folks over at famed travel publisher Lonely Planet have done in a new list selecting 20 of the best pubs on the island of Ireland.
The selection sees watering holes assessed not just on the creaminess of the pints, but also their atmosphere, entertainment offerings, food, location and spirits.
Arranged in alphabetical order, here are Lonely Planet's picks for the top 20 pubs in Ireland:
- Blakes of the Hollow, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh
- Clarkes Bar, Drogheda, County Louth
- The Cobblestone, Smithfield, Dublin
- De Barra's Folk Club, Clonakilty, County Cork
- Dick Mack’s, Dingle, County Kerry
- The Duke of York, Belfast
- The Gravediggers, Dublin
- JJ Houghs Singing Pub, Banagher, County Offaly
- Mickey Finns Pub, County Wicklow
- The Moorings, Dungarvan, County Waterford
- Morrissey's, Abbeyleix, County Laois
- Mother Macs, Limerick City
- O'Connell's, Skryne, County Meath
- O'Loclainn's Irish Whiskey Bar, Ballyvaughan, County Clare
- The Rusty Mackerel, County Donegal
- Street 66, Dublin
- Sunflower Public House, Belfast
- Teach Hiúdaí Beag, County Donegal
- Thomas Connolly, Sligo town
- Tigh Neachtain, Galway city
You can dive into Lonely Planet's full list
here.
