Leo's Tavern

Leo's Tavern Tábhairne Leo
Leo's Tavern in 2005
Restaurant information
Established	1968
Current owner(s)	Leo Brennan (founder) Bartley Brennan (proprietor)
Food type	Irish traditional, European
City	Meenaleck, The Rosses
County	Donegal
Country	Ireland
Other information	Pub, restaurant, music venue, tourist attraction, Hotspot (Wi-Fi)
Website	www.leostavern.com

Coordinates: 55°01′38″N 8°16′16″W / 55.027357°N 8.271192°W / 55.027357; -8.271192

Leo's Tavern (Irish: Tábhairne Leo) is a restaurant and pub in the Donegal Gaeltacht, best known as the home of music artists Clannad, Enya and Moya Brennan. The pub opened in 1968 and held Irish traditional music sessions nightly, becoming the musical starting block for the children of Leo Brennan, the pub's founder. The current proprietor is Bartley Brennan, one of the youngest of the Brennan siblings.

At the end of Ireland's showband era, musician Leo Ó Braonáin settled with his wife Máire "Baba", opening Tábhairne Leo in 1968. The pub became a gathering place for musicians and singers to take part in Irish traditional music sessions. While working shifts behind the bar, Leo's children Máire (Moya), Ciarán and Pól Ó Braonáin and Noel and Pádraig Ó Dúgáin would regularly accompany their father on stage to tell old Irish stories, or seanchas, to the locals.

The siblings would often sing songs by Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys and other bands of the era, usually translated to Irish Gaelic. While touring in later years, the siblings and their uncles, as Celtic/Folk band Clannad, their younger siblings Brídín, Eithne (Enya), Olive and Deirdre would perform.