Celebrating 100 Years

Generations of families have sat in this bar, watched the harbour change with the seasons, and carried something of this place home with them. We're building an archive of those stories, written by the people who lived them.

Below, you'll find accounts, some written by us, some submitted by the people who lived them, of what this place has meant across a century. They are unpolished, personal, and true.

A hundred years of memories. We're collecting them all.

Your Keating’s Bar story belongs here.

Do you have a memory of Keating's Bar; a summer, a pint, a night you still talk about? Did your family spend seasons at the caravan site? Did you work for Bridie for a Summer job? Did you ever stay in the original Darrynane Hotel?

We want to hear from you. Every submission will be read, and the ones we publish will be added to this archive permanently, a record of what this place has meant to the people who loved it.

Stories can be as short as a paragraph or as long as they need to be. Photos welcome. Names can be withheld on request.

Photos From The Past

Every pub that lasts a hundred years does so because of the people who showed up, summer after summer, and made it theirs. The regulars. The caravan families. The sailors who found the harbour by accident. The children who grew up here and brought their own children back.


Keating’s Darrynane Hotel

Year
1900

Year
1970

Client
Keating’s Bar