Johnnie Fox's Pub

Johnnie Fox's Pub visited on Rural Pub Tours

 

Situated in Glencullen on top of the Dublin mountains, Johnnie Fox's is one of Ireland's oldest and most famous traditional Irish pubs and is also famed as the highest pub in the country.

 

Visited on all Our Pub Tours

 

Johnnie Fox's Pub was originally a small holding farm, the pub of today holds many aspects of the farm with dining areas named as "The Pig House" for example, also one can still see where the animals were housed in "The Haggart" area with it's small private rooms set off to the sides surrounding the court yard area.

Johnnie Fox's Pub visited on Rural Pub Tours

 

 

 

Back in the day a person would "arrange" to meet at Johnnie Fox's and sit and talk around the fire, exchange tales and news and current affairs and sip a pint or three in the process.

 


Not much has changed, they are just a little busier now with a few more staff than family members serving their guests, but the theory is still the same in the practice!