Well known Tory Top bar up for sale in Cork

A LONG-established, family-run pub between two of Cork city’s suburban sporting heartlands, rugby at Musgrave Park and soccer at Turner’s Cross stadium, has another claim to fame – it is the closest licensed premises to the grave of Fr Theobald Mathew, the Apostle of Temperance.

Between the vibrantly living and the dead, it has hosted many a post-funeral gathering, as well as numerous match post-mortems for soccer and rugby codes.

Up for sale this week is the well-known The Tory Top bar premises, on a prominent corner site by Pearse Road, the Kinsale Road/Curragh Road and Tory Top Road junction: it has been run since 1989 by publicans Humphrey and Selma Moynihan, who are now retiring, and it’s for sale with Aisling Doyle and Peter O’Meara of Savills.