Carty's Bar & Lounge - Knock

10/09/2026

🥔🍻 — Original Pub Snacks! 🍻🥔

This week, we uncovered two little pieces of Irish crisp history here in Carty's Bar & Lounge - Knock — and they got us feeling all nostalgic! ❤️

👑 KING CRISPS 👑

This classic orange King Crisps bag is likely from the late 1970s, costing just 7p! 🪙 The ingredients list was wonderfully simple:
🥔 Potatoes
🌻 Edible vegetable oil
✨ Flavouring

And a suggestion to try their peanuts and popcorn! 🥜🍿

🥔 GOLDEN TAYTO 🥔

This Tayto bag is likely from the 1980s, costing just 12p, weighing in at 26g and proudly declaring itself the “IDEAL TV SNACK.” 📺😂

And just look at that five-digit telephone number! ☎️ Remember when phone numbers were that short? 😍 Remember when you could actually remember everyone’s number? 😂

📦 Look at the difference between then and now… Back then, a crisp packet basically needed:
🥔 A logo
🌶️ The flavour
💰 The price
✨ And a promise of freshness!

Nowadays, your humble bag of crisps comes with:
🧾 Ingredients
⚠️ Allergens
📊 Nutritional information
♻️ Recycling details
🔎 And enough small print to require a magnifying glass! 😂

And those prices… 7p and 12p! 😳🪙 We can’t quite promise 1970s prices… but thankfully, our snack offering is still pretty mighty! 😋🍻 And yes… Tayto is still on offer! 🥔💚

Fancy a little snack? Choose from
🥔 Tayto Cheese & Onion, Keogh's Guinness & Flame Grilled Beef, Atlantic Sea Salt & Balsamic Vinegar or Sweet Chilli crisps
🥜 Nobby's Sweet Chilli or KP Salted nuts
🥓 Smith's Bacon Fries
🍫 Cadbury's Purple Snack

What was your favourite childhood treat to have with your bottle of pop? 🥤🥔🍫

And how do YOU share your crisps? 🤝 Bag torn wide open on the table — everyone help yourself! 🙅‍♂️ Or held firmly in your own hand, carefully guarding every last crisp without crushing them! 😂

No judgement here… Although we may be watching. 👀🤣



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09/09/2026

Got your squad? 🧠 See you Friday! 🍻 Great prizes, raffle prizes too - buy your tickets on the night 😉 All for a great cause 🐾🙌

08/09/2026

And here it is… the finished masterpiece! 🖤🤍🎨

A huge thanks to Damien Martin Moran for bringing our Guinness horse and cart mural to life at Carty's Bar & Lounge - Knock 👏🐎

Spot the Mayo GAA touch? 💚❤️ Sticking his chest out and proud to be from Mayo, of course he's in a Mayo jersey! 🏐💪

Isn't it fab? It's even better in person 😉🍻



Guinness Ireland

07/09/2026

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Tomorrow evening at 8pm, members of the Mayo squad and management team will attend a short prayer service in Knock Basilica. All are welcome to attend.

04/09/2026

04/09/2026

Quiz Night for Mayo SPCA

Pub Quiz for a Great Cause!

Get your team together and join Mayo SPCA at Carty’s for a night of craic, prizes, laughs & a bit of friendly competition!

Friday 11th September
7:30PM till late
Teams of 4 — €40

In aid of MSPCA

Gather your pack, test your knowledge and win those all-important bragging rights!

Additionally, Mayo SPCA has a dire need for volunteers. If you have the capacity to give a few hours of your time, please contact the Mayo SPCA directly:

+353 86 803 2592
[email protected]
More: https://mayospca.com/

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03/09/2026

- Keeper of Carty's Stories 🦌

Watching proudly over the Front Bar in Carty's for over half a century, our famous stag's head has been a familiar face to generations — and a silent witness to countless stories of its own 📜🕰

Recently, Bert Dennedy recalled a story he was told in the 1960s, when he came to Knock as a sergeant, about how the stag came to take its place behind the bar ☺️

Back then, shooting outings were a familiar part of rural life, and Frank, John and Martin Conboy, along with Jim Carty, Paddy Joe Healy and others, were often part of those outings together 🐕

On one such occasion in Ballinrobe, a stag was spotted — and with Paddy Joe Healy's gun at hand, John shone the light, while Frank, steadying himself on Martin's back, took the shot. In time, the stag made its way back to Carty's, where it has remained ever since 🎯

The keeper of spare keys, holder of holiday souvenirs, a home for signed dollar bills and countless little mementoes — each with a story of its own - much has happened beneath those antlers over the decades ✨️

Regularly dressed up for the occasion — shamrock sunglasses, Easter bunny ears, Christmas baubles and a mini Sam Maguire - it's become a bit of a celeb itself! 🤩

And recently, the stag witnessed another memorable chapter in Carty's history — the Sam Maguire Cup being lifted in the Front Bar! 🏆

Generations have come and gone beneath its watchful gaze — conversations, celebrations, reunions, victories, homecomings and countless evenings shared in its company. Faces have changed, Carty's has evolved, but the stories continue 🥰

It has become part of the fabric of Carty's — and a small piece of the history shared by everyone who has crossed its path 💫

Have you any memories — or photos! 📸 — of the stag over the years? We'd love to hear them in the comments 📝



Carty's Bar & Lounge - Knock

31/08/2026

🏆⚽ Champions! Double delight for Kiltimagh Knock United! ⚽🏆

A huge congratulations to the Kiltimagh Knock Utd Women’s Team on an incredible win in Castlebar yesterday! 👏💙🤍

We were delighted to have the champions call into Carty's Bar & Lounge - Knock after their fantastic victory, well done to all the players, management and everyone behind the team!

What a season and what an achievement — double honours for KK! 🥳👏

🏆 Mayo Women’s Shield Champions 2026
🏆 Division One Champions

Enjoy the celebrations — thoroughly deserved! 🍾⚽



FAIreland

27/08/2026

— Knock’s Tug-of-War Champions! 🏆🪢💪

Here’s a fantastic piece of Knock history for this week’s Throwback Thursday — the victorious Knock Tug-of-War Team of 1940! 📸✨

This wonderful photograph was kindly given to us by John and Rita Flatley 🙏— a huge thank you to them for bringing these special pieces of Knock history home from London and allowing us to share them with the community ❤️☺️

👀 Do you recognise any of these faces or names?

📸 L-R: Martin Curry, Jack Burke, Paddy Kilduff, Brian Egan (Captain), Jim Flatley, Hugh Carney, James Sloyan, John Flatley and Paddy O’Brian.

The team competed at the Ballyhaunis Augustinian Pattern Revival in September 1940. An estimated 6,000 people travelled to the town by foot, bicycle and car 🚶‍♂️🚲🚗 for a fantastic day of sport, music, singing and dancing 🎶🎤💃🕺

And the tug-of-war was described by the Connaught Telegraph as one of the highlights of the day! 🪢🔥

💪 Ten teams entered the competition, including two teams from Knock.

🥇 Knock No. 1 — the team pictured here — first overcame Knock No. 2, before defeating Granlahan. Then came the final against Coolnafarna… and Knock pulled out the win! 🏆🎉🙌

Captain Brian Egan was presented with the cup 🏆 and each member received a medal 🥇 Not a bad day’s work at all! 👏😄

We’re delighted to be able to preserve these memories at Carty's Bar & Lounge - Knock ❤️📚, and this fantastic photograph will be going up on the wall soon 🖼️

We’ve got a number of new pictures waiting to be displayed, so keep an eye out! 👀📸 And there’s another photograph from John’s collection coming in a future throwback post… 🕰️✨

💭 Do you remember the Patterns or other local festivals?

🎪 What did you most look forward to?
🏆 Did you ever win a trophy, medal or competition?
📸 Do you have any old photographs or memories you’d like to share?

Tell us below — we’d love to hear your stories! 👇❤️