About
Since 1886.
Gallagher Hotels is a family owned and operated hospitality group based in Sydney Australia. Family-owned and operated by Patrick and his Wife, Angela alongside their two sons Austin and Jack, there are currently five hotels within their group.
Our objective is to operate hotels that immerse themselves within their local community, providing high-quality food and beverage programs and living by the mantra that the customer always comes first.
bia march, Fion maith, ceol march
(Good Food, Good Wine, Good Music)
History.
The Gallagher’s have had a pub in the family since Patrick’s great Grandfather, “J.J.” built one in the late 1800’s in the town of Krambach, in country NSW.
T’was the 1840s, potato famine & disease were rife. The Irish population was left badly ravaged. Fever and dysentery were relieved only by a cholera particularly bad throughout the Limerick area. Sailing on board the John Mclver, fleeing famine and disease was the family of Gallagher – Lawrence, wife Honarah, and his brother John set off for a new land in 1851, taking naught but the very clothes they wore.
John and Lawrence embarked for a distant shore heading for New South Wales, the Sydney Town colony. 6-month-old Mary did not last the journey. Once on shore in a vast new land the Gallaghers became a prosperous clan. Established in Maitland, until in 1854, the Gallaghers moved to south of Dungog in search of more. In 1853, Lawrence fathered a son, John James, or J.J.’ as he was to become.
A great entrepreneur, J.J. travelled as a young man selling utensils and clothing with his horse and a van. J.J. travelled through Dungog, Stroud and the Manning River returning back through Wallamba and Bulladealah. In the 1870’s near Larry’s Flat, J.J. bought land abound with the hope of establishing a new and prosperous town, now known as Krambach. The Gallaghers poured in, Lawrence and John bought all their kith and kin. He built the first post office in 1881, a general store, slaughterhouse and butchery were to come in 1879. J.J. became a married man marrying a girl of Moy, named Mary Anne J.J. then built the town’s first hotel and established a large and loyal clientele.
For over a decade, Krambach thrived til the railway was built and the population declined. The hotel was then run by Austin, J.J’s son, thence Brian, J.J.’s grandson, took over the hotel’s run and so tis a tale began in woe and poverty. But a fair land and hard work ended misery.
A dynasty began with brothers Lawrence and John and 1000s of pints shared continues four generations on.
JJ Gallagher
Entrepreneur, Hotelier
and PJs Great Grandad
Family owned & operated
“There is no direct translation into Gaelic for the English word ‘NO’!”
– Patrick Gallagher
This forms the cornerstone of the Gallagher Hotels service philosophy.
Left to right: Austin, Angela, Patrick and Jack Gallagher, pictured at Jacksons on George.