Pub history

The Great Wood

This is named after the Great Scaldwood, an ancient forest covering much of Blanchardstown and Coolmine. By the mid 17th century, large numbers of wild boar and wolves roamed the ‘Great Wood’. The transformation of this sparsely populated area began in the 1960s. The Blanchardstown Centre opened in 1996, followed by the smaller Westend Retail Park and Westend Village, where these premises were purpose built as the West nightclub.