The wonderful infographic was made by my friend Gimena who is an extremely talented interface designer — check out her portfolio. Growing up down the road in Adare, I remember people claiming that Abbeyfeale had the most pubs per head in Ireland. Walking round in search of a pint to reward my cycling efforts I wondered, was this true?
Barstool talk was all we had in the nineties, but surely someone had done a bit of a study since. Cycling back I had a bit of time to think about this. I had been looking for an excuse to fool around with a bit of Python, and this seemed like the perfect chance to write a small web scraper to get the data. It was even available as an Excel file, with the address lines in separate columns! My excitement quickly waned as I waded through the horrible morass that is Irish addresses. Fortunately I managed to harangue Emmet into helping me with some Excel tips and tricks.
I was reminded why we have the most amazing national statistics office here in Ireland. But mostly because we in Ireland are an absolute mess when it comes to addresses. How the CSO manage to count anything in this country is a mystery. Not only until this year we were one of the only rich countries not to have a postcode system, but consider the following points when I was cleaning up the pub data:.
After a large amount of address-wrangling, I got my data cleaned up somewhat. I discarded all the local authority subdivisions of Dublin to just cater for one county of Dublin. Out of 7, licenced pubs and hotels in Ireland, I managed to match up all but of them to a census town, and many of these would not have a match anyway e. The answer again comes down to post office locations: in rural Ireland the second-last line of your address is normally your local post office. So even though 7 pubs had Feakle as their address, at least 3 were a long way outside Feakle in another village.
But I have to be optimistic, because I have a young family. The closure of click-and-collect has hit businesses like theirs hard. Browne's son, John , is helping to paint the shop. He moved back to the area from Abu Dhabi four years ago and is teaching fifth class in a national school in Castleisland.
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