The Comerford’s pub origins are from the 1830s. The 1855, 1901 and 1911 census records show that Comerford’s were registered as “Farmer and Merchant and Publican”.

In 1839, George Comerford, originally from Spanish Point, married Lucy Burns, whose family owned the pub in Doonbeg, and so it became Comerford’s.

George and Lucy’s son George remained in the family home. George Comerford and Mary (‘Minnie’) O’Gorman were married on 28 February 1900, and they were the parents of three children, George, Isaac and May. George Comerford, married Mary Anne Kent and they developed an export market for mackerel to France in the 1920s, employing local men and women to clean and prepare the fish for export. The mackerel export business wound up in the 1940s and the family decided to concentrate on farming and the bar trade.

Isaac remained in the family home, and married Teresa Madigan. Now their daughter and son (Ita and Tommy) run the bar and their other son George runs the farm.

At first, Comerford’s was single-storey thatched house selling a variety of groceries and serving drink at that bar. They later built the 2-storey house and pub and that remained the case until the 1980s when it stopped selling groceries. The pub is still run by the Comerford family.