‘Exceptional service’ and ‘well-crafted food’ characterise this 19th-century flax mill on the Wild Atlantic Way, now home to Susan and Derek Alcorn’s friendly restaurant-with-rooms.

Emerging from the landscape, Ruairí and Marie-Thérèse de Blacam’s sustainably run stone-and-glass restaurant-with-suites is a design-led sanctum in a remote Gaelic stronghold.

‘A brilliant base for a boat trip to the world heritage site of the Skellig Islands’, Andrew and Kate Cooke’s ‘buzzing’ destination restaurant has expanded to provide ‘quirky, boutique-style’ bedrooms.