Waterford pub dating back to Famine times up for sale

West Waterford’s famed Seanacaí pub dates to Famine times, 1845, and is now for sale, as a bar and restaurant property, along with 12 purpose-built holiday cottages which adjoin the site of a Famine memorial at Dungarvan’s Ballinalira, Pulla Cross.

The entire property is just off the main Cork-Waterford N25, and is a previous winner of Heritage Pub of the Year and Black & White Pub of the Year awards. It got its first licence in 1845, and a room was added very shortly afterwards to accommodate mourners who came to bury their dead in the adjacent Famine graveyard Reilig an tSléibhe.

Trading at the bar and restaurant ceased within recent weeks, and the Seanacaí/Seanachai is now for sale by private treaty, via John Ryan of CBRE in Dublin, acting jointly with Eamonn Spratt of REA Spratt in Dungarvan. They describe it as a landmark premises.