Best hotels with fishing in Ireland - Good Hotel Guide

Best hotels with fishing in Ireland

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Temple House

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.

Enniscoe House

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 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.

Ballyvolane House

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

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.

Frewin

Frewin, Ramelton

On the outskirts of a Georgian port town on the Wild Atlantic Way, peaceful, old-world charm is found at Regina Gibson and Thomas Coyle’s relaxing B&B in a Victorian rectory.

Rosleague Manor

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

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.

Currarevagh House

Currarevagh House, Oughterard

‘A long private road through woodland’ leads to Henry and Lucy Hodgson’s Victorian country house, ‘lost in time’ in 180 acres, overlooking Lough Corrib.

Coopershill

Coopershill, Riverstown

Simon and Christina O’Hara and rescue collie Juno delight in welcoming guests to their Georgian ancestral home, a mile off-road, on a 500-acre wooded estate with deer park.

Castle Leslie Estate

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.

Lorum Old Rectory

Lorum Old Rectory, Bagenalstown

Bobbie Smith and her daughter Rebecca welcome guests to their Victorian rectory B&B, in a peaceful situation four miles from town on the slopes above the River Barrow.

Stella Maris

Stella Maris, Ballycastle

Though it styles itself a ‘country house’ and stands amid gently rolling hills, the sea provides the drama at Frances Kelly-McSweeney's former coastguard’s HQ on the Wild Atlantic Way.

Lough Bawn House

Lough Bawn House,

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

Ard na Sidhe Country House Hotel

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.

Inis Meain Restaurant and Suites

Inis Meain Restaurant and Suites, Aran Islands

Remote and remarkable, Ruairí and Marie-Thérèse de Blacam’s sustainably run restaurant-with-suites blends in to the rugged landscape of Aran island.

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