Erected circa 1800 it was one of the properties of the Beecher estate circa 1850. Around this time, it was leased by one Cornelius Collins who ran it as a pub and it remained in the Collins family up to 1907. During their residency it was sold at the Encumbered Estates Court to the Limrick/Spaight family. Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa when visiting Union Hall to address a meeting spent an evening there while awaiting the arrival of the Ross contingent who had been prevented from crossing the bridge into the village and had to return to Glandore where boats were acquired to ferry them across the harbour. Mrs. Collins was an aunt of Rossa’s second wife, Ellen Buckley. In 1908 a 31-year lease, at a yearly rent of £5-12s – 6d, was purchased by May and Pat Shanahan who had grocery store to its left. During their occupancy it was a “Tied House” like many public houses at the time and it could only sell the products supplied by Beamish and Crawford of Cork who would have provided part of the capital for the refurbishment of the of the premises. Pat Shanahan was the grandson of Jeremiahs Shanahan of Ross, who was Rossa’s godfather and second cousin. On the death of both Pat and May Shanahan at a young age, due to the Spanish Flu of 1918. The business was then purchased by John and Mary Burns and it continued to function as a bar until the licence was sold in the early 1960’s.
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