Dame Lane (Irish: Lána an Dáma) is a narrow thoroughfare in Dublin, Ireland, with a variety of historical and literary associations.

[4] Speed's map also shows a residential area stretching east from the walled city, the old 12th-century St Andrew's Church, and a semi-circular enclosed graveyard near Palace Street.

[6] Dame Street, just to the north, "was the Royal Mile of 18th Century Dublin," linking the castle to the parliament building.

It featured 34 stalls of butchers, cheesemakers and poulterers, and the map: "shows a marketplace connected to George's street by a narrow laneway.

In 1818, Trinity Place had 172 residents,[13] and later in Thom's Almanac of 1862 "Trinity-place off Dame-Lane" is listed as having 21 houses, many noted as being in tenements.

Hely's was a prominent and successful Dublin stationer at nearby 27-30 Dame Street,[19] with an associated large printing works located behind their shop premises.

"[24] The most significant landmark today on Dame Lane is The Stag's Head, a mostly intact public bar built on the site of older taverns dating from the 1780s.

The Stag's Head was re-built in 1895 in "redbrick with Italianate detail" by businessman George Tyson and architect Alfred McGloughlin in high Victorian style with mahogany, stained glass and mirrors.

sign on the corner of South Great George's Street, reputedly a favourite Dublin landmark of Bono.

5 Dame Lane dates from 1906 and was built as part of an extension to the Hely's Acme Printing Works.

[29] Architectural historian Christine Casey refers to the date of 1906 when Batchelor & Hicks used the Hennebique "system of re-inforced concrete framing reputedly employed here for the first time in Dublin".