The rather large - due to the occasional match and gig traffic for the RDS and Lansdowne Road - bar of the relatively small Schoolhouse Hotel is in a space that looks every bit like a Victorian chapel, with vaulted ceilings and exposed woodwork. However, as the name suggests, this was a school and I suspect this may actually have subdivided in to classrooms originally, or was the school hall if not
The 1856 built St Stephen's School was converted to the hotel in 1997, rather sympathetically in my opinion, with its modern bedroom block effectively out of sight from the road behind it.
The bar is huge, but still has some nooks and crannies and a particularly cosy set of couches beside a fire under the mezzanine section. The photos on the hotel website show more closely packed internal seats and far less outdoor seating than I experienced, probably what its changed back to when there aren't any gigs or matches on.
Getting the last of the sunlight outside before retiring inside to near the fire - it wasn't the warmest by the time the sun went down - before heading back for a 66 from Merrion Square was a decent end to the Bank Holiday weekend
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