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Limerick

Once a youth hostel, this hotel at the corner of a late Georgian terrace has definitely waved away any thoughts of backpackers' basics, swapping them for boutique chic.

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Bushmills Inn - Save 10% on 3 Nights or more Special Offer

Bushmills

Travellers have been enjoying the traditional comforts of this coaching inn, along the Causeway Coastal Route, since the 17th Century, and still feel revived by its robust food, convivial bar, cosy nooks and spacious bedrooms.

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Temple House, Ballymote

A private drive loops through native woodland and pastures to this classical mansion overlooking a ruined Knights Templar castle and teeming fishing lake in W B Yeats country.

Gregans Castle Hotel, Ballyvaughan

It may not be a castle but this rambling 18th-century manor house, wrapped in gardens and with views over the otherworldly karst landscape of the Burren, has its own romantic charm.

Enniscoe House, Ballina

Solitary Nephin, Ireland's highest stand-alone mountain, provides a dramatic backdrop to this classic, pink-washed Georgian country house in wooded grounds on Lough Conn.

Newport House, Newport

On a historic estate once home to the O’Donels – a factious crew, by all accounts, transported here by Cromwell – Kieran Thompson’s creeper-clad Georgian house has long been a fishing destination.

Rathmullan House, Rathmullan

Pass the little gate lodge to drive up to this bay-fronted country house in wooded grounds edged by a beach on Lough Swilly.

Ballymaloe House, Shanagarry

‘We enjoyed a walk in the extensive grounds with the hotel’s biodiversity champion,’ write readers on a visit to this legendary Irish country house hotel that is passionate about locally sourced food.

Ballyvolane House, Fermoy

With breakfast served until noon, afternoon tea by the drawing room fire, shooting, fishing and communal dining, a house-party atmosphere prevails at this Georgian country house.

The Mustard Seed  at Echo Lodge, Ballingarry

Every painting, sculpture and piece of furniture feels cherished and chosen at John Edward Joyce’s Victorian country mansion in landscaped gardens.

Killiane Castle  Country House and Farm, Drinagh

Guests are welcomed with tea or coffee and home-baked biscuits at the Mernagh family’s farmhouse B&B beside a 15th-century fortified tower house.

Ghan House, Carlingford

Beneath Slieve Foy Mountain, stepping distance from the sea and within walled gardens, the Carroll family’s Georgian house affords views at every turn.

Schoolhouse Hotel, Dublin

More Hogwarts then Dotheboys Hall, this ‘charming, rather fairy-tale-like Victorian schoolhouse with gables and tall chimneys’, now a quirky hotel, moves up a grade to the main Guide after a visit from our school inspectors.

Rosleague Manor, Letterfrack

Drive under a leafy canopy to this pink-washed manor house ‘in rhododendron-filled gardens rolling down to the shore of Ballinakill Bay’.

Roundwood House, Mountrath

Rattle over a cattle grid and watch out for roaming ducks and geese as you approach this imposing Palladian villa in native woodland, home to Hannah and Paddy Flynn and their family.

Castle Leslie Estate, Glaslough

The Leslie clan's High Victorian pile overlooking a lake is a stupendous trove of Grand Tour treasures and family lore.

Rayanne House, Holywood

There is great zest for life at Conor and Bernie McClelland’s B&B – a Victorian merchant’s house above Belfast lough – from the exuberant decor to Titanic dinners and gargantuan breakfasts.

Hunter’s, Rathnew

Enveloped in olde-worlde charm, with ‘staff who really make an effort’, this rambling, ‘extremely comfy’ hotel in ‘lovely grounds by the River Vartry has been owned by the same family for almost 200 years.

Ard na Sidhe  Country House Hotel, Killorglin

On the wooded shores of Lough Caragh, the extensive gardens of this Irish sandstone manor house are ripe for discovery: hidden paths lead to the water and the mountains beyond.

The Old Rectory, Belfast

A welcoming home away from home, Mary Callan’s guest house is in a conservation area just south of the centre.

Lough Bawn House, Collinstown

‘A long, romantic, tree-lined drive’ climbs gently to this classical Georgian house ‘overlooking sheep-filled pastures and a glistening lough’.

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