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Pub With No Beer Six Nights a Week Named Ireland's Best Pub

Cathy Hayes 3 January 2016


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Passionate review goes so far as calling this the “best pub in the world” and the “beating heart of Ireland.” Photo by: IrelandTravelKit.com/Corey Taratuta


The Irish Times has named a Tipperary pub, which only opens one night a week, as the best pub in Ireland.


The column Barfly reviewed 51 pubs, in 19 counties, in 2015 and Jim O’ the Mill, in Upperchurch, Tipperary was dubbed the best based on “readership and social sharing.” The pub with only one beer tap, live music and a homely feel certainly sounds like the very embodiment of an quintessential Irish pub.

The passionate review of the country pub goes so far as calling this the “best pub in the world” and the “beating heart of Ireland.”

Jim O’ the Mill opens only on Thursday nights with a trad session from 9pm, including fiddles, boxes and bodhráns brought along by the locals. Run by Jim and Kae Ryan and their five daughters the pub is built into a flag-stoned kitchen and the parlor.

Sean Laffey in Irish Music Magazine described it thus: "A corrugated Church kind of sets the tone for Jim O'The Mills. home made, improvised, agragarian, pragmatic.Finding the pub is easy if you know where it is.

"If you are new to the country you will need a local guide. Jim O'The Mills sits anonymously in plain clothes dressed as a small farmhouse, nestled in a dip in the road. Just ask for the metal bridge and you'll be in the right vicinity. There are no Guinness or Harp signs, no fancy sun umbrells, no cheerful boards proclaiming Ceol agus Craic. You would't suspect it of beign a drinking house so blended is it into the rural community".

It’s no wonder reviewers fell in love with the place. Here’s a video of one of their famous sessions:


Here are the top ten pubs in Ireland according to the Irish Times:

1. Jim O’ the Mill, Upperchurch, Tipperary
2. J O’Connells, Skryne, County Meath
3. The Long Hall, Georges St, Dublin
4. Sean’s Bar, Athlone, County Westmeath
5. Nora Murphy’s Bar, Brandon, County Kerry
6. John Kavanagh’s (The Gravediggers), Glasnevin, Dublin
7. Kehoe’s, South Anne Street, Dublin 2
8. Grogan’s Castle Lounge, 15 William St South, Dublin 2
9. The Cobblestone in Dublin’s Smithfield
10. The Hanged Man’s pub, Milltown, County Kildare