The Lost Pub of Tallaght Village - Barrett's of Tallaght
The Lost Pub of Tallaght Village- Barrett's of Tallaght (1880-1913) Purveyors of Bolton's "BB" Whiskey- Barrett's of Tallaght In the early 1900s Tallaght main street, in a village of no more than 360 souls had three licensed premised. By the 1980s Tallaght had a population approaching 55,000 people, and had long since lost one third of its village pubs. Until now, all that remained of the lost pub of Tallaght, was an old black and white photograph, in which the curious or inquisitive might discern an advertisement for Bolton's "BB" Whiskey. Welcome to Barrett's of Tallaght. *** In 1880, 27 year old Christopher Barrett married Elizabeth Johnstone, a Wicklow girl and carpenter's daughter, who had been living in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway. Barrett had recently established his own modest grocery and provision shop on Tallaght's main street, one of only two licensed premises in the village at that time, the other being O&