# The best traditional pubs in Dublin

Old bars with history, a proper pint of Guinness and trad music sessions, as picked by Irish pub guides and locals.

- 436 votes · 12 items
- Dec 26, 2025 · suitcase_galway
- https://even.best/en/l/169/the-best-traditional-pubs-in-dublin

## Top 10

1. **The Brazen Head** (53 · ▲57 ▼4) — Claims to be Ireland's oldest pub, on a site with a licence dating to 1198. <https://www.brazenhead.com/>
2. **The Long Hall** (36 · ▲38 ▼2) — South Great George's Street pub with a deep-red Victorian interior largely unchanged since 1881.
3. **Kehoe's** (34 · ▲38 ▼4) — Former grocery pub on South Anne Street with snugs and original fittings.
4. **The Cobblestone** (33 · ▲35 ▼2) — Smithfield pub with the city's most respected nightly traditional music sessions.
5. **The Stag's Head** (26 · ▲30 ▼4) — 1895 Victorian pub off Dame Street with stained glass and mahogany.
6. **O'Donoghue's** (25 · ▲31 ▼6) — Merrion Row pub where The Dubliners began playing in the 1960s.
7. **The Palace Bar** (25 · ▲29 ▼4) — Fleet Street pub from 1823 with a literary back room and a whiskey bar upstairs.
8. **Toners** (22 · ▲31 ▼9) — Baggot Street pub since 1734, with its old grocery drawers behind the bar.
9. **John Kavanagh (The Gravediggers)** (21 · ▲26 ▼5) — Family-run since 1833 beside Glasnevin Cemetery, known for one of the best pints in Dublin.
10. **Mulligan's of Poolbeg Street** (21 · ▲25 ▼4) — Pub since 1782, a favourite of journalists and of James Joyce.
11. **Doheny & Nesbitt** (15 · ▲20 ▼5) — Victorian pub on Lower Baggot Street, a haunt of politicians and economists.
12. **L. Mulligan Grocer** (13 · ▲20 ▼7) — Stoneybatter pub in a former grocery, with craft beer and an excellent restaurant at the back.

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