Best country house hotels in Ireland - Good Hotel Guide

Best country house hotels 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.

Gregans Castle Hotel

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 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 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

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

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.

Killiane Castle Country House and Farm

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.

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.

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.

Wild Honey Inn

Wild Honey Inn, Lisdoonvarna

Within the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark, Ireland’s only Michelin-starred pub attracts discerning diners with its refined bistro cooking and country-cosy accommodation.

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.

Hunter’s

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

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.

Lough Bawn House

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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Last updated: October 31, 2017

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