MacCarthy's Bar

MacCarthy's Bar
MacCarthy's Bar
	MacCarthy's Bar in 1989
Restaurant information
Owner(s)	Adrienne
City	Castletownbere
County	County Cork
Country	Ireland
Coordinates	51°39′06″N 09°54′37″W / 51.65167°N 9.91028°W
Website	Official website

MacCarthy's Bar, originally called McCarthy's Bar and also known as MacCarthy's Bar and Grocery, is a public house in the town of Castletownbere, County Cork in Ireland, founded by Michael McCarthy who began trading in 1860. It was later the home of Michael's grandson, Air Commodore Aidan MacCarthy. In 2000 the pub gained widespread attention when it featured in and appeared on the front cover of Pete McCarthy's best-selling book McCarthy's Bar.

It was initially a grocery business which expanded to trade with the nearby Royal Navy base at the harbour, and then became McCarthy's Bar, selling beer, wine and spirits, one of the first licensed premises in the town. Michael's youngest son, Denis Florence (D. F.), continued its success and had the premises refurbished by craftsmen who came to construct a nearby church between 1907 and 1911. To distinguish the family from a neighbour with the same name, the McCarthys became MacCarthy.

In 1979, Adrienne MacCarthy, great-granddaughter of Michael moved to Cork and took over the running of the Bar, to avoid it closing after the death of an uncle. It still sells groceries and has a bar at the back. It houses the ceremonial sword gifted to D.F.'s son Aidan, by a Japanese officer during the Second World War.