Stoneybatter: the village
Manor Street's cafés, the Victorian artisan cottages, the Cowtown past, and the corner pubs that survived. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Manor Street
The high street of the village — a short run of independent cafés, a butcher or two, and the day-to-day shops that make Stoneybatter feel like a town inside the city. Start with a coffee here; the street wakes up slowly and that's the point.

2. The artisan cottages (Oxmantown / Sigurd Road)
The grid of red-and-yellow brick workers' cottages built in the 1880s for the city's labourers — single-storey, tiny-gardened, and fiercely kept. Walk the streets named for Norse kings; the whole pocket is the reason the neighbourhood is so loved.

3. Stoneybatter / the Cowtown corner
The old name was Bóthar na gCloch, the road of stones — but locals called it Cowtown, for the cattle driven through to the markets at Smithfield. Read the street furniture and the older shopfronts for the trade that built it. A neighbourhood that remembers being rural.

4. Mulligan's of Stoneybatter / corner pubs
Stoneybatter's pubs sit on the corners, the way village pubs do, and they range from untouched old men's bars to the reinvented sort. Pick one for a midday pint or a coffee; the corner pub is the social engine of the place. You don't have to drink to step in.

5. Arbour Hill
Down toward the river, the small cemetery where the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising are buried in a common grave, the Proclamation carved on the wall behind. Quiet, solemn, rarely busy. A short detour and a serious one; take a moment.

6. Collins Barracks (National Museum — Decorative Arts & History)
End at the vast 18th-century barracks square, now a branch of the National Museum — free, and good on Irish silver, furniture, and the military history of the state. Cross the parade ground for the scale alone. The Luas at Museum is at the gate.

Stoneybatter: the village