N1123 Slatts

You don't usually come across a pub in the middle of a housing estate - well, the ones attached to suburban shops aside. Slatts hasn't even got an adjoining bookies let alone a row of shops to accompany it; and is probably the only pub in the middle of an estate from this era.

And despite its location within the City area, there is more than a slight feel of a rural pub here - both from the outside and from the atmosphere within. The pub stands out, taller than the squat houses surrounding it and with more external lighting

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Winter makes for lots of dark outdoor pics. Slatts is one of the oddest located pubs in Dublin, being half way down a residential street with no other shops or similar adjacent to it. The housing around it provides its regulars and it seems everyone knows everyone else at the bar. #pub #pubs #dublin #dublinpubs #inchicore

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The lounge was not obviously open from outside, so I went in to the bar. The lounge was, however, open - just with the curtains drawn.

The bar had a limited range of taps, but this included both an Open Gate tap, and one from the local Rascals Brewery. Rascals Taproom / Restaurant back in Inchicore village was where I was heading, for the Beoir Christmas Party; but I had plenty of time to have a second pint here and listen to the locals discussing the former names of pubs in the village - almost as if they had scheduled an appropriate conversion for me to earwig!