Thanks to Jason Matthews for sharing these two pictures with us of heavy metal group Metallica, pictured outside The Crowing Cock in Kilsaran in September 1986.

The Crowing Cock has been closed in recent years, falling victim to the opening of the M1 motorway, but for years was one of the most popular stop-offs on the way to Dublin.

It is, incidentally, available for rent at present at a cost of €15,000 per year.

The above picture of the group was taken just two weeks before bassist Cliff Burton, second left, was killed in an accident.