Attached to a 15th-century fortified tower house, the Mernagh family's farmhouse B&B offers both history and comfort. Guests are welcomed to this lived-in and loved home with tea or coffee and home-baked biscuits.

Guests' happiness is paramount for host John Edward Joyce at his characterful, eclectically furnished country house with charming bedrooms and exquisite but unstuffy fine dining in the Mustard Seed restaurant.

On the Coastal Causeway Route, overlooking Ballygally Bay, this traditional hotel, occupying a much-extended 16th-century castle, is a welcoming, comfortable base from which to tour Game of Thrones countryside.

In a conservation village on the shores of Strangford Lough, this friendly family-run gastropub is a popular social hub, with locals bar, restaurant, attractive bedrooms and a menu strong on fish and seafood.

One of Ireland's oldest coaching inns, in lovely gardens on the River Vartry, and in the same families since 1825, this hotel attracts visitors from around the world with its chintz, old-world charms and honest Irish fare.

Set on a 300-acre working farm, this legendary country-house hotel began life in 1964 as a restaurant run by farmer's wife Myrtle Allen, using produce from the farm and walled kitchen garden, and has grown into a thriving business, with cookery school, café and arts venue ,while keeping faith with its founding principles.

A long, winding drive leads to Henry and Lucy Hodgson's country house on an estate on Lough Corrib, with its lakeside sauna, old-fashioned interiors, warm hospitality, and great home-cooked food.

There are no TVs or minibars at the Leslies' ancestral country house on an estate with lakes and woodlands, but interiors are a trove of Grand Tour treasures, every house bedroom comes with some extraordinary tale, and estate-to-plate dishes are served in the restaurant.

A former home for retired governesses, this boutique hotel on a tree-lined street close to St Stephen's Green has beautiful, quirkily styled rooms, from 'shoebox' to suites. Light bites are served in the Art Deco-inspired Gin and Tea Rooms, and guests can enjoy a great breakfast in the Garden Room.

There is a house-party ambience at Justin and Jenny Green’s Georgian country house, filled with treasures passed down through generations, where produce from the kitchen garden and estate feature on the set dinner menu, and everything from bread and preserves to gin infusions is made in house.