Lamb Doyles

Specialties

The Lamb Doyles Bar and Restaurant.

The Lamb Doyles pub is the perfect location for your function. The function room is situated on the First floor of the Lamb Doyles pub, blackgen road, Sandyford Dublin 18.

Our function room has a spectacular view that captures all the main iconic features of Dublin city and for those night time functions the show of glistening lights awaits you.

The function room is available for all types of parties, occasions, celebrations and remembrances.

The Lamb Doyles function room can play a part of your life 21^st, 30^th, 40^th, 50^th, 100^th, christening, communion, confirmation and weddings.

History

Established in 1832.

‘The view from the Lamb Doyle’s pub on a Summer’s morning as you sit in the shade on a bench outside the house and look back over the bay with Dublin on the left and Howth, Ireland’s Eye and Lambay behind, on the right, Kingstown, Dalkey and Bray Head, all of them in the blaze of the midday sun! The sweet smell of the country in your nostrils, a cigarette in your mouth, and your glass behind you. Truly you could feel life in all its’ glory’. So wrote William Orpen, the painter, describing a visit to Lamb Doyles pub — ‘That wonderful inn on the hills’ as he called it –with his friend Oliver St. John Gogarty about 1911.

Lamb Doyles was a favourite pub of Dr. Gogarty’s. Often after a busy morning removing tonsils in the Meath Hospital he would drive out to have a quiet drink before returning for duty.

Lamb Doyles pub at that time, and indeed for the next 40 or 50 years was a simple place. The bar was also the local grocery shop. The floor was covered with sawdust and in winter there was a