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Location: 54 Gillabbey St, The Lough, Cork, T12 DF70

Venue Type:  Backstreet Pub / Traditional

Year of Inscription: 2025

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EBG Rating:	7.8/10
Choice/ Quality of Drinks	❤️❤️❤️❤️ A broad selection covering beer, whiskies and gin particularly well. Some local beers to look out for on the taps. The wine list is pretty decent for a pub.
Style/ Décor	❤️❤️❤️❤️ With bar room, lounge and back room, warmly lit with twinkly lights. Decorated with music posters (smart rather than scuzzy). Brick tile floor in the bar room, booth seating with studded leather upholstery. More of a classic set up than the warren of nooks and crannies other write-ups suggest, but there are some characterful corners, for sure.
Atmosphere/ Character	❤️❤️❤️❤️ Popular pub between the college and city centre with a mixture of youngsters and a family sensibility too. Not on the tourist circuit as much, making this one a place to mingle with locals. Perhaps more of a middle class end of pub than the likes of Welcome Inn or The Castle, not that there’s anything wrong with that, and it can still get fairly lively with groups of youngsters turning up to knock bar jars of stout.
Amenities/ Events	❤️❤️❤️ Fireplace, snacks, live music, pizza can be ordered in from another business.
Value For Money	❤️❤️ Typical central prices.
Description	A little walk out of the very centre, the Abbey is adjacent to Saint Fin Barre’s cathedral, in between city and college. This informs its audience, a mixture of students and post-grads with middle class families. A smart, but nevertheless charming enough interior that’s well curated with candles and fairy lights, and an operation straddling interest in music and sport each to cater for its wide age range without impinging on each other. The drinks are superior to the average here with some beer from local breweries and whiskies, wines and gin that go beyond the stock selections that you’ll fine in most other places. The atmosphere gets pretty bustling when busy, not quite doing justice to its moodier lighting which would suggest a more contemplative venue to enjoy a quieter drink. It’s a fine pub we can comfortably recommend trying out. (Added February 2025)