Best luxury and boutique hotels, B&Bs in Ireland

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No. 1 Pery Square - Two Night 'Hike & Spa' Special Offer

Limerick

The town house hotel, overlooking Limerick’s People’s Park, packs a lot into its Georgian rooms, from a spa and swish restaurant to a choice of period and chic bedrooms.

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The Wilder Townhouse - 'Together Again' Package Special Offer

Dublin

Once a home for retired governesses and for 'bewildered women', this Victorian red brick property a stroll from St Stephen's Green also draws its name from Oscar Wilde's association with Dublin.

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Temple House, Ballymote

A ruined Knights Templar castle sits beside a mile-long lake in the grounds belonging to Roderick and Helena Perceval's impressive classical mansion.

Gregans Castle Hotel, Ballyvaughan

There isn’t a castle, but there is a 15th-century tower house, built for the ‘Prince of the Burren’, the unearthly glaciokarst landscape said to have inspired J R R Tolkien.

Enniscoe House, Ballina

A single-track road meanders through woodlands to this Georgian mansion at the foot of lonely Nephin mountain, overlooking Lough Conn, where Susan Kellett and son DJ are 'welcoming hosts'.

Marlfield House, Gorey

George the peacock struts some of the 40-acre grounds of this rural Regency-style country house, run as a hotel for more than four decades by the Bowe family (Relais & Châteaux).

Newport House, Newport

You don’t have to be a fly-fisher to check in at Kieran Thompson’s creeper-swathed, late Georgian mansion with views over the Newport River estuary and Clew Bay, but if you are into the sport, this is indeed the place to stay.

Rathmullan House, Rathmullan

Second-generation owners Mark and Mary Wheeler continue a 60-year tradition of welcoming guests to their Georgian-cum-Victorian house in landscaped grounds and gardens, with a sandy beach on Lough Swilly.

Ballymaloe House, Shanagarry

When farmer’s wife Myrtle Allen opened a restaurant in her Georgian farmhouse back in 1964, she did not dream that she was starting a quiet revolution in Irish food, or that her home would become the epitome of country house hotel style.

Ballyvolane House, Fermoy

Amid gardens and parkland, with bluebell woods and trout lakes, this Georgian country house, remodelled in the 19th century, is not a hotel but a family home, say third-generation owners Justin and Jenny Green.

The Quay House, Clifden

With its harbour views, eclectic furnishings, bedrooms full of home comforts and hosts who exude warmth and joviality, Quay House is a Connemara institution.

Sheedy’s, Lisdoonvarna

The Sheedy family’s old farmhouse on the edge of the Burren’s dramatic karst landscape is today a smart hotel and restaurant.

Viewmount House, Longford

It is the attention to detail that so impresses at Beryl and James Kearney’s classical Georgian rebuild of a 17th-century house, set in themed gardens with a pond and orchard.

Sea Mist House, Clifden

The colourful cottage-style flowers surrounding the red door of this pretty, stone-built Georgian house are a clue to the warm welcome and cosy atmosphere inside.

Killiane Castle Country House and Farm, Drinagh

A 15th-century fortified tower complete with massive walls and murder holes abuts this handsome B&B in the heart of a working farm.

Frewin, Ramelton

Creeper-covered on the outside, and filled with quiet, old-world charm on the inside, this B&B is owned and run by Regina Gibson and Thomas Coyle, who have restored the former rectory with period flair.

Ghan House, Carlingford

In shades of heather and bracken, Slieve Foy rises behind the Carroll family’s listed Georgian house.

Schoolhouse Hotel, Dublin

Within walking distance of Dublin’s many attractions, this 19th-century schoolhouse by the Grand Canal is today a hotel with a restaurant and a ‘very jolly’ bar.

Blue Quay Rooms, Clifden

Its facade an eye-catching blue, Paddy and Julia Foyle’s jauntily refurbished B&B is above the harbour, a few minutes’ walk from the centre of the small market town.

Wild Honey Inn, Lisdoonvarna

In a spa town on the edge of the Burren, a landscape of ash and hazel woodland, of grassland, cliffs and fen, this Michelin-starred pub-with-rooms attracts discerning diners with its refined bistro cooking and country-cosy accommodation.

Giles Norman Townhouse, Kinsale

Soak up harbour scenes from this stylishly renovated Georgian town house in the centre of a historic town along the Wild Atlantic Way.

Rosleague Manor, Letterfrack

Overlooking Ballinakill Bay, and tucked among private woodland, this fine-looking, family-run hotel offers rooms and service as serene as its surroundings.

Roundwood House, Mountrath

Put together a Georgian mansion, rambling grounds, creative cooking served by serenading chefs, and big-hearted hosts, and you understand Roundwood’s allure.

Currarevagh House, Oughterard

With cakes on the sideboard, drinks by the fire, and a gong to summon guests to dinner, Henry and Lucy Hodgson’s Victorian mansion in parkland on Lough Corrib has the atmosphere of a much-loved home.

Coopershill, Riverstown

A mile-long avenue leads across the River Unshin to Simon and Christina O’Hara’s Georgian country house in 500 acres, with a deer park, venerable oaks and exhibitionist peacocks.

Hilton Park, Clones

Built in 1734, burnt down in 1803, rebuilt over 15 years and remodelled in the 1870s in the style of an Italian palazzo, the ancestral home of the Maddens is the perfect place for an escapist Irish country house weekend.

The Mustard Seed at Echo Lodge, Ballingarry

Everything is peachy at this apricot-washed Victorian mansion, now a lavishly furnished hotel and fine-dining restaurant, in landscaped grounds with orchard and working kitchen garden.

Castle Leslie Estate, Glaslough

‘This is such a unique and interesting place,’ writes a reader, of the Leslie clan’s 19th-century mansion on a vast estate with gardens, lakes and woodland. ‘I felt like I was in a fairy tale.’

Lorum Old Rectory, Bagenalstown

A stay at Lorum is like being invited as a family friend to enjoy the antique-filled country house, candlelit dinners and mountain views.

Stella Maris, Ballycastle

You can drift off to sleep to the sound of the waves and wake to the view over Bunatrahir Bay at this Victorian coastguard's fortress turned one-of-a-kind hotel.

Hunter’s, Rathnew

‘A special place.’ Said to be Ireland’s oldest coaching inn, this rambling, ‘extremely comfy’ hotel stands in ‘lovely’ grounds by the River Vartry.

Ard na Sidhe Country House Hotel, Killorglin

The extensive gardens of this Irish sandstone-built manor house on the wooded shores of Lough Caragh are ripe for discovery: hidden pathways open on to the water, and the mountains beyond.

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 its Aran island setting.

Lough Bawn House, Collinstown

‘Divine’ views stretch down rolling meadows to a spring-fed lough from this ‘impressive’ Georgian house, which has been home to Verity Butterfield’s family for four generations.

The Montenotte Hotel, Cork

Above tiered gardens, this large, modern hotel with an artistic bent takes in an impressive panorama over the city and the harbour.

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Limerick

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Dublin

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