It is located, snugly, in the small rural hamlet of Glencullen, high in the heart of the beautiful terrain that ruggedly embroiders the rambling Dublin mountains. The winding roads to Glencullen, take you on a number of breathtaking scenic routes, where the panoramic splendour of South County Dublin can be savoured as you climb.

This pub, has featured prominently, in the historic and social evolution of Ireland and its success today is due to the fact that this unique establishment has refused to bow to the 'whims of modernisation' and steadfastly maintains its nostalgic originality. Indeed these premises today are much the same as Daniel O'Connell would have found them when he frequently used Johnnie Fox's, as one of his favoured safe 'meeting places'.

Always a popular haven for those who love Irish music and culture, Johnnie Fox's in the early 1950's, hosted the popular programme of traditional music and story telling, which was broadcast by Radio Telefis Eireann on Sunday nights. Music and Irish culture is as much alive today as it was then in Johnnie Fox's, with the best of traditional entertainment, dancing, etc. provided seven nights a week. In summertime, sessions in "The Haggard" are an extravaganza not to be missed.

Visitors to this vintage rendezvous, will be pleased to note, that 'Johnnie Fox's Seafood Kitchen' proffers an extensive choice of Seafood Dishes and is acclaimed, for its superb home-cooked-cuisine. Irish Smoked Salmon, Crabmeat, Dublin Bay Prawns, Lobster, Chowder, Open Seafood Sandwiches, etc. are just a sample of the delicacies available and I suggest you treat yourself to one of those 'special coffees', with the exotic name tags.

No doubt, you will enjoy, the food, craic and entertainment when you sojourn at Johnnie Fox's, but it will probably be its sheer authenticity and traditional old world charm, that will cast an indelible spell on you. The rough-stone floor flags, always strewn with sawdust, the crackling logs on the open hearths, the antique woods of the old dressers, furniture, etc. and the sight of the now muted, mountain Shanakee, make this pub, inimitable to the pretender. Lots of ancient memorabilia, including kettles, crockery, old prints, sewing machines, guns, books, farm implements, horse tackle, pigs head and 'famous heads', further adorn this 'Alladin's Cave' of dates, memory-lane bric-a-brac.

Proprietors Anthony & Geraldine McMahon attribute the success of these premises to the fact that there is always a constant buzz exuded and as the large local fraternity will confirm 'the craic is always mighty'. Johnnie Fox's is where the nostalgic solidity and culture of yesteryear, is immortalised and lovingly maintained, making the establishment a prominent market leader, in today's Irish Licensed industry. The aficionado of the real Irish pub will confirm that the authenticity of Johnnie Fox's, needs no further adornment - just a visit!

Glencullen House a three minute walk from Johnnie Fox's has connections with Daniel O'Connell, Michael Collins, Countess Markievicz, the Yeats sisters to mention a few notables who helped steer the course of Irish history. O'Connells daughter, Ellen O'Connell married Christopher Fitz-Simon in 1825. The Fitz-Simon family seat has endured for 320 years at Glencullen House from 1676 until 1996 when the proprietors of Johnnie Fox's Pub bought the Glencullen estate from Daniel O'Connells great-great-great-grandson, Christopher O'Connell Fitz-Simon. It was at this house that the great liberator O'Connell chaired the very first meeting of the Catholic Association where they planned their campaign which led to the granting of Catholic Emancipation in 1829. It was at this house Countess Markievicz came to call, where a blind eye was turned to the 'anonymous' friends she brought with her and the hushed conversations that took place within its walls. It was at this house that the famous Michael Collins together with his followers came and set up an ammunition factory in one of the out-buildings. Glencullen House will be opened to the public in the summer of 1997. On view will be the very interesting history of the Fitz-Simon family during a very turbulent period for Catholic landowners in Ireland when much lands were often confiscated and regranted to Protestants, together with the largest collection of antique farm machinery and tools in the whole of Ireland. Not to mention a very fine collection of Victorian 'traps' which were used to circumvent the undesirable activities of both mice and MEN.