Dublin Weekend Break
Complete Dublin PUB list!
It is just about impossible to list all of Dublin's 970 plus pubs, but the list below will give you a pretty good selection from which to choose (there are about 270 in the list and nearly all of the famous names are there).
To simplify things, all the pubs are on this single page, but they have been divided up geographically in to zones or districts that are recognized in Dublin.
There is a brief description of each of these districts above the listing of it pubs, but the only way to appreciate what each one offers is to sample the
public houses that they contain.
1. City Centre Pubs
These are generally pubs within walking distance of one another and they cover the heart of Dublin including popular areas like "Temple Bar" and "Grafton Street". Below, they are sub-divided into districts or street combinations to help with the arranging of pub tours and pub crawls.
1.1 Temple Bar
The Temple Bar district is the place to be seen in Dublin city, it is trendy, artistic and attracts shoppers during the day and clubbers and pub goers at night.
It is probably the most tourist driven district of Dublin and the prices of drinks are often inflated compared with some other parts of the city. That said, few weekend breakers visit Dublin without having a drink somewhere in Temple bar and they are always spoilt for choice. Highlights include Dublin's oldest pub and some "super" pubs.
Isoldes Tower (Parliament St)
Karma Handels Hotel (Fishamble Street)
Bad Bobs Bar (East Essex Street, Temple Bar)
Buskers Bar (Fleet Street)
Cassidy's Bar (Westmoreland St)
Bar Pintxo (12 Eustace Street)
Bob's (35 and 37 Essex Street)
Brazen Head (20 Lower Bridge St)
Darkey Kelly's (The Harding Hotel)
Farrington's (27 and 29 East Essex Street)
Foggy Dew (Fownes Street Upper)
Oliver St John Gogarty (57 and 58 Fleet Street and 18-21 Anglesea Street)
Palace Bar (21 Fleet Street)
The Auld Dubliner (17 Anglesea Street)
The Front Lounge (33 and 34 Parliament Street)
The Octagon Bar (6 and 8 Wellington Quay)
The Temple Bar (Essex St East)
Vathouse (Temple Bar)
Viper Room (Aston Quay)
Club M Blooms Hotel (Aglesea Street)
Switch (Eustace Street)
1.2 Grafton Street, South William Street
Grafton Street is a popular shopping area and the pubs on and around it are busy at lunch times and late afternoons.
In the evening Grafton Street becomes one of Dublin's main night time haunts and along with Temple Bar is probably the city's top district for pubs. Grafton Street connects Trinity College and St Stephens Green.
La Cave (28 South Anne Street)
Major Tom's (South King Street)
Mc Daid's (3 Harry Street)
McDaid's (3 Harry Street, just off Grafton Street)
Neary's (1 Chatham Street)
Ordel (Grafton Street)
Break for the Border (Johnson Place)
Bruxelles Harry St (just off Grafton St)
Cocoon Duke Lane (just Off Duke Street)
Da Club (3-5 Clarendon Market)
Davy Byrne's (Duke Street)
Dawson Lounge (Dawson Street)
Down Under (King Street)
Grogan's Castle Lounge (15 South William Street)
International Bar (Andrew Street)
Judge Roy Beans (Nassau Street)
O'Donoghues Suffolk Street)
O'Neill's - of Suffolk Street (Suffolk Street)
Renards Bar and Niteclub (South Frederick Street)
Ron Blacks (Dawson Street)
Samsara (Dawson Street)
Sheehan's (17 Chatham St)
South William (52 South William Street)
The Bailey (Duke Street)
The Duke (8 and 9 Duke Street)
The Exchequer (Exchequer Street)
The International (Exchequer Street)
The Old Stand (37 Exchequer Street)
Thing Mote (15 Suffolk Street)
Viva (South William Street)
Lillie's Bordello Adam Court (Grafton Street)
1.3 Pubs in and around the Capel Street district
Capel Street is another of Dublin's popular areas and it has nightclubs and restaurants including those offering chinese and asian cuisine.
The pub scene is not quite as well served (in number at least) as the likes of Temple Bar and Grafton Street, but there are still some excellent and atmospheric publich houses in the Capel Street area.
The Chancery Inn (1 Inns Quay)
Hughes' Bar (19 Chancery Street)
Out On The Liffey (27 Upper Ormond Quay)
Sin E (14 Upper Ormond Quay)
The Quill (1 Arran Quay)
Voodoo Lounge (39/40 Arran Quay)
The Morrison (Lower Ormond Quay)
1.4 Pubs in and around the Christchurch district
All the pubs in this area are close to Christ Church Cathedral (as is the Dublinia museum visitor attraction) which makes them easy to find.
You will also find some restaurants and eateries in this area too. The likes of Grafton Street and Temple Bar are also pretty close, so you can always walk from one area to the other.
The Castle Inn (4-5 Lord Edward Street)
Lord Edward Pub (23 Christchurch Place)
Mother Redcaps (Back Lane, High Street)
O'Shea's (12 Bridge Street)
Vicar Street (Thomas St)
Molloys (13 High Street)
1.5 Docklands
The Docklands district of Dublin city has seen significant investment and urban renewal and is now one of the hot spots of the city.
The Docklands area is particularly appealing at night when parts of the Docklands are illuminated and there are some good public areas like Grand Canal Square. There a re also a good number of pubs as you can see from the list below.
Chaplin's (2 Hawkins Street)
Long Stone (Townsend Street)
MacTurcaills (15 Townsend Street)
McCormack's White Horse Inn (Burgh Quay)
McTurkel's (Tara Street)
Messrs Maguire (Burgh Quay)
Mulligan's (Poolbeg Street)
O'Reilly's (Luke Street)
Q Bar Burgh Quay (O'Connell Bridge)
The Celt (81 Talbot Street)
The Dockers (5 Sir John Rogerson's Quay)
The Harbourmaster (Custom House Dock)
The Palace Bar (Fleet Street)
1.6 Georges Street and Dame Street district
The area surrounding Georges Street is always busy, partly because of an impressive arcade with some interesting shops and stalls which give the pubs good lunchtime trade.
Dublin Castle, the City Hall and Beatty Library are all in this area.
Brogans Dame Street)
Capitol Bar (18 Lr Stephens Street)
Hogans (George Street)
Shirley Temple Bar's Bingo (89 South Gt George's St)
Bia Bar Drury Court Hotel (28/29 Lower Stephens Street)
Stag's Head (Dame Court)
The Bankers (16 Trinity Street)
Citi Bar (Dame Street)
The Dame Tavern (18 Dame Court)
The George (South Great Georges Street)
The Mercantile Adams (28 Dame Street)
1.7 Harcourt, Camden and Wexford Street district
George Bernard Shaw once lived and frequented pubs in this part of Dublin and this district is a good point from which to start a tour of the city's massive number of pubs.
The area around Hardcourt also has a fair number of good pubs in it and most fit the "genuine" Dublin pub description.
Cassidy's (Camden Street)
Copperface Jack's (29 Harcourt Street)
Flannerys (6 Lower Camden St)
LFD Nightclub (Harcourt Street)
Piseog's - hotel (Camden Street)
Ryans (Camden Street)
Sonny Kines Loftus Lounge (11-12 South Richmond Street)
The Bleeding Horse (Upper Camden Street)
The Chocolate Bar (Harcourt Street)
The Odeon (57 Harcourt Street)
The Swan (Aungier Street)
Whelans (Wexford Street)
D Two Premier Late Nite Bar and Niteclub (60 Harcourt Street)
The Palace 84/87 Lower Camden Street, )
The Pod Old Railway Station, Harcourt Street)
The Red Box Old Railway Station (Harcourt Street)
The Village (26 Wexford Street)
1.8 Merrion Square district
Sitting to the south east of the city centre, Merrion Square is positioned next to Leinster House, the seat of the Irish government, and the district has a bit of an air of opulence about it.
There are however a number of good pubs and you may see an Irish minister drinking in a bar with you.
Doheny and Nesbitt (Baggot Street Lower)
Foley's Bar (Merrion Row)
Howl At The Moon (7 Lower Mount Street)
O'Donoghue's Guesthouse (Merrion Row)
O'Dwyer's (7 and 8 Lower Mount Street)
Oil Can Harry's (31 Lower Mount Street)
Searson's (42 Upper Baggot Street)
The Baggot Inn (143 Lower Baggot Street)
The Ginger Man (40 Fenian Street)
The Henry Grattan (Lower Baggot Street)
Toner's (139 Lower Baggot Street
1.9 O'Connell Street district
O'Connell Street is the main through affair in Dublin city and is one of the widest city centre streets in Europe. It has plenty of interesting buildings and some of the ciy's best known and most popular pubs.
There are quite a number of them as you can see below.
Bond (5 Beresford Place)
Conways (70 Parnell Street)
Flowing Tide (9 Abbey Street Lower)
Forum Bar (Parnell Street)
Grand Central (O'Connell St)
John M Keatings (Jervis Street)
Kiely's (Lower Abbey Street/Liffey Street)
Life (Lower Abbey Street)
Murky Blues (Parnell Street)
The Bachelor Inn (31 Bachelors Walk)
The Belvedere (Great Denmark Street)
The Big Tree (Dorset Street)
The Oval (78 Middle Abbey Street)
The Sackville Lounge (Sackville Place)
Welcome Inn (Parnell Street)
Spirit (Middle Abbey Street)
1.10 Stephens Green district
This area has a large shopping centre and it sees a lot of pub traffic from shopper's husbands and boyfriends who generously suffer the boredom of the local pubs while their partner shop for 2 or 3 hours.
Hartigans (100 Lower Leeson Street)
Kobra Bar (26 and 27 Leeson Street Lower)
Nostromo (25 Leeson Street)
Peter's Pub (Johnson Place)
Sinnott's (South King Street)
The Barge (42 Charlemont Street)
The Horseshoe Bar (27 St Stephen's Green)
The Sugar Club (Leeson St. club)
1.11 Trinity College district
This is the area around the well known college and the pubs here are, not surprisingly, popular with the district's many students.
Mahaffey's (44 Pearse Street)
O'Sullivans (Westmoreland Street)
The Bridge (Westmorland Street)
The Pav (Trinity College)
2. South city (south of the main city centre area)
A significant part of commercial Dublin is located on the south side of the city which is generally considered wealthier and more prosperous than the north. This is the district with the middle class estates and prosperity. The dividing line between the two is normally recognized as the river Liffey. A strange characteristic of the city is the use of post code digits. The Northside (a single word) has all odd numbers and the South Side has even digits.
Crowes (10 Merrion Road)
Paddy Cullens (14 Merrion Road)
Paddy Flaherty's (51 Haddington Road)
The Beggar's Bush (115 Haddington Road)
The Horseshow House (34 Merrion Road)
Submarine Bar (Crumlin Cross)
Kitty O'Shea's (23 Upper Grand Canal Street)
H Crossbar and Bistro (Harolds Cross Road)
Inn in the Park (176 Harolds Cross Road)
Kellys (231 Tyrconnell Road)
The Black Lion (207aEmmet Road)
The Tram (James Street)
KCR House (Kimmage Road Lower)
Russell's (60 Ranelagh)
Taylor's (Grange Road)
Comans of Rathgar (2-6 Terenure Road East)
Portobello (Rathmines Bridge)
Martin B Slatterys (217 Lower Rathmines Rd)
Rody Bolands (12 Upper Rathmines Road)
The Madison 3 and 4 Lower Rathmines Road)
The Ocean Bar in The Millennium Tower (Charlottes Quay Dock)
John Fallons Pub (129 The Coombe)
3. North city (north of the main city centre area)
Dublin's Northside is "historically" considered to be the poorer brother of the South Side and has a reputation for being more "working class" and this is reflected in the area's pubs. The Northside does however have some exclusive areas and also sees the Presidents residence within its boundaries (albeit with a South Side postal code).
Hanlon's Pub (Hanlon's Corner)
The Breffni Inn (Ashtown Grove)
Clontarf Court Hotel Bar (Clontarf Road)
The Dollymount House (Clontarf Road)
The Yacht (73 Clontarf Road)
Fagans (Drumcondra)
Ivy House (Upper Drumcondra)
Quinn's (42 Lower Drumcondra Road)
The Fairview Inn (47 and 49 Fairview Strand)
Autobahn (Glasnevin Avenue)
The Cameo (Green St)
Swiss Cottage (Swords Rd)
The Comet (Swords Rd,)
Chief O'Neill's (Smithfield Square)
Cobblestone (77 North King Street)
Dice Bar (Queen Street)
Hole In The Wall (Blackhorse Avenue)
The Belfrey (Stoneybatter)
Tommy O'Garas (Stoneybatter
4. South County (the areas around Blackrock, Booterstown etc)
The Wicked Wolf (2 Main Street)
Tonic Bar (5 Temple Road)
Gleesons (44 Booterstown Avenue)
The Punch Bowl (116 Rock Road)
Boomers Bar (Dutch Village)
Quinlans (Orchard Lane)
The Kings Inn (Dalkey)
Cooney's (88 Lr. Georges Street)
Dunphy's (41 Lr Georges Street)
Eugene Murphy's (73 York Road)
Farrells (Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre)
Goggins (99 Monkstown Road)
McCormack's (67 Lwr. Mounttown Road)
Molloy's (4 Lower Georges Street)
O'Loughlin's (26 Lower. Georges Street)
Scotts (Georges Street)
Smyths (128 Lr. Georges Street)
The Graduate (Rochestown Avenue)
The Purty Kitchen (Old Dunleary Road)
Walters (68 Upper Georges Street Upper)
Delanys (Knocklyon Road)
Deadman's Inn (Old Lucan Road)
Kennys (Lucan)
The Penny Hill (Lucan)
The Red Cow Inn (Naas Road)
The Saggart Arms(unknown location)
Charles Fitzgerald (Sandycove)
The Eagle House (18 and 19 Glasthule Road)
Belgard Lounge & Bar (Belgard Road)
Kilkawley's & Library Bar (Belgard Road)
Lannigan's Bar (Belgard Road)
Kestrel House (Walkinstown Cross)
5. North county (Malahide, Skerries, Rush, Donaghmede etc)
Budabar (Blanchardstown)
West (Blanchardstown)
Bradys Castleknock Inn (Old Navan Road)
La Mora Restaurant (Luttrellstown Castle Resort)
Myos (Main Street)
The Carpenter (Carpenterstown Road)
The Clonsilla Inn (Clonsilla Road)
Donaghmede Inn (Donaghmede Shopping Centre)
Abbey Tavern (Abbey Street)
The Bloody Stream (14 West Pier)
The Harbour Bar (Church Street)
Gibneys (New Street)
Smyth's Of Malahide (12 New Street)
Coyote Saloon (Old Road)
The Harbour Bar (Lower Main Street)
Walsh's Pub (Main Street)
The Coast Inn (67 Church Street)
Tommy Bahamas (Strand Street)
Carroll's Pierhouse Hotel (The Harbour)
Joe Mays (The Harbour)
O'Shea's (New Street)
ROCK a BILL (The Harbour)
The Bus Bar (Church Street)
Cruisers Bar And Grill (Tyrellstown centre)