#22. Abbey Manor Hotel, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim. €3.50

We have been to the Abbey Manor Hotel before for Sunday dinner and this past Saturday we stopped in for dinner and and a pint. Simply put, I had the best lamb joint I ever had in my life. Delicious. And if I wasn’t driving, I easily would have had a second pint. Good temperature. Rich and smooth. Folks have said hotels don’t serve the best pints, but that wasn’t true with the Abbey Manor.

Coincidentally, there was a hen party going on at the bar and while photographing the front of the hotel, we met a returning patriot from Alaska. She is taking over the family pub in Ballybofey … wouldn’t it just be McKelvey’s, where I had a pint the weekend before.