Stoneybatter (Irish: Bóthar na gCloch), is a neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, on the Northside of the city between the River Liffey, the North Circular Road, Smithfield Market, and Grangegorman.
Stoneybatter is mentioned as the district from which the two sisters, the Misses Morkan, had moved to Usher's Island, in the exposition at the beginning of James Joyce's final story in Dubliners, "The Dead".
Stoneybatter is also the main location for events in the Tana French novel "The Trespasser," and the area is mentioned in the Irish folk song "The Spanish Lady".
At the time of the Norman invasion, the Vikings, Ostmen or Austmenn (men of the East) as they called themselves, were exiled to the north of the Liffey where they founded the hamlet of Ostmenstown, later to become Oxmantown.
These routes connect the neighbourhood with the city centre, Phoenix Park, Cabra, Ashtown, Castleknock, Blanchardstown, Clonsilla, Ongar, Clonee, Dunboyne, Donnybrook, Clonskeagh, Kilmacud, Sandyford, Broombridge, Glasnevin, Griffith Avenue, Marino and Fairview.