Laverty's Bar - TheBlack Bull Inn

Laverty's Bar, known locally as the Black Bull Inn, occupies a stone cottage around 150 years old on Main Street in Randalstown. The bar is family-run and trades as a traditional Irish pub, serving drinks and pub food with a secluded garden to the rear. A small number of guest rooms sit above the bar, but the business is built around the ground-floor bar trade rather than the accommodation. It draws a mixed local crowd through the week and is described by regulars as busy at weekends. The pub is not tied to a brewery chain and operates as a single, independently run premises rather than part of a group, with the proprietor known locally simply as Oliver. Its position on Randalstown's Main Street makes it a fixture of the town's evening trade, alongside a handful of other independent bars nearby. Reviews describe it as a genuine local rather than a tourist-facing venue.