O'Kane's

Owned by the same family for 150 years and originally a spirit-grocers (see introduction). After Irish Partition, they redeveloped the bar so the counter and back-fittings date from the 1920s: note especially the striking blue fringe of C.R. Mackintosh-style tiles on the counter. The public bar was expanded to the right and the two rooms at the rear were brought into use in the mid-1980s (the Victorian back-fitting was reused from a pub in Strabane). Note the Guinness bottling equipment (used until the 1960s) in the games room.