In a magical place on the shores of Lake Caragh, a serene hotel in a Victorian-style manor. Its name translates as ‘Hill of the Fairies’, a tree-covered knoll nearby.

'A real discovery.’ In a ‘first-rate setting’ on the Beara peninsula, this good-value hotel on the water’s edge overlooks a harbour brimming with fishing boats and big ships.

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’.

In the Blackwater valley, visitors to this fine, ivy-clad Georgian country house are invited to stay ‘as if with friends’ by the welcoming Sharp Bolster family.