Remember the 'holy hour'? Cork's historic Blackman pub set to forge new paths with €1.1m sale

The Blackman pub at city's Dublin Pike has been 54 years in Healy family hands; now development may come to pass its way

Dublin Pike junction setting for The Blackman

THERE’s at least 1,000 new houses inching their way out towards Cork’s Blackman Pub, once a far-flung bar outside the city limits, with a heritage going back over a century, and a name that’s bound to intrigue.

Forging ahead: Cork's legendary Blackman pub on 2.88 acres is for sale guiding €1.1m with obvious development potential. The Blackman got its name from a blacksmith's habit of hammering cart wheel rims on a blackened tree stump that at night gave off a ghostly outline of a figure