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One of Dublin's most lavish late victorian pubs, The Stags Head was built in 1895. It is for a reason that Dublin barmen were known as curates and this bar is a good example of public house architecture as an almost religious experience. The architect incidentally used to draw perspectives of churches. With its panelling, arcading, mirrors and stained glass, the interior is almost as built and well maintained. Recently immortalised in a Guinness ad campaign, the bar is well worth a visit at night.

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The exterior has an arcade of round headed windows down one side while the main facade has projecting bay windows above a granite and marble ground floor facade. Until recently a mosaic tile panel advertising the bar was set into the pavement on Dame Street infront of the entrance to Dame Court.