Blending into the landscape, Ruairí and Marie-Thérèse de Blacam’s design-led restaurant-with-suites is on a remote Aran island, a stronghold of Gaelic culture.

In a town on the Ring of Kerry, Andrew and Kate Cooke’s ‘buzzing’ destination restaurant and ‘quirky, boutique-style’ bedrooms provide ‘a brilliant base for a boat trip to the Skellig Islands’.