Most pubs per head.

[5 Sams]

Something Heganboy said on the NYC thread about there being 2000 places that sell drink in Manhattan got me thinking.

How many bars is that per head of population? There is roughly...what? 2 million people in Manhattan? That means a bar for every 1,000 people

Apparently there are 54 bars in Dingle....assuming the holiday population of Dingle is about 3,000...thats about 1 bar for every 55 people.

Can any other town/city/village beat that for service?

[Fishbat]

Not sure what the population of Clonmel is, but theres a brave few pubs there too

[Bogball XV]

i heard that county monaghan had the highest pubs per head ratio of an irish county. 

[Tyrones own]

  Absolutely has to be Kilnaleck In Caaaaaavan, never seen anything like it for pubs

[Doire abú]

Apparently Draperstown, Co. Derry has the highest number of pubs per head in the world!! Not jokin btw, apparently it was in the Guinness Book of Records in 2003 I think.

Manys a post mortem on a match has been carried out there.

[give her dixie]

Carrickmacross always seemed to have a fair share of watering holes.

[screenmachine]

aye draperstown was in the guiness book of records surely, not sure of any stats to be honest but there's a fair few ale houses around and about...its great!

[Abble]

somewhere in monaghan alright - might be ballybay, every second building in the village is a pub....near sure its ballybay

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Gortin in the Sperrins in Tyrone.

[Billys Boots]

I'm not sure how many are still functioning, but in the late 80s, Arva (Co. Cavan) had a population of ca. 300 and 17 pubs, which I make as approximately one for every seventeen people.  No overcrowding there. 

[thebandit]

I think Castleblayney, Carrickmacross and Ballybay are all in the top 10 in Ireland

[lynchbhoy]

  Absolutely has to be Kilnaleck In Caaaaaavan, never seen anything like it for pubs

....and I'll bet you've never seen pubs anything like them either !

it was the first place I thought of also
but alas it wont win this title

most of the locals have at least two heads...

[Candyman]

Keady, Co.Armagh....
Some may well pose as pubs though!!!

[Hardy]

We used to play a game over pints in Drogheda - can you go from point A (on the North side) to point B (on The Far Side - i.e. across the river) without passing a pub? No swimming or boating allowed. Couldn't be done.

Yes, yes - simpler times, when all we had for entertainment was each other. And none of us was very entertaining.

[behind the wire]

hilltown co down. bound to be some sort of record there. think theres one shop, one chippy, a chinese, an electric shop and then about 12 pubs.