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Ballylickey House

Built some 300 years ago by Lord Kenmare as a shooting lodge, and home to the Franco-Irish Graves family for five generations, this fine house enjoys a romantic setting overlooking Bantry Bay, with moors and hills behind.

Many will remember it when it was run as a country house by the present owner’s parents, George and Christiane Graves, and known as Ballylickey Manor; since George and Christiane’s retirement their son Paco now operates it along simpler lines, offering bed and breakfast in both the main house and a number of cottages and chalets in the wonderful gardens which were laid out many years ago by Paco’s grandmother, Kitty.

Guests with a literary turn of mind will be interested to know that the poet Robert Graves was a great-great uncle of Paco’s, and visited the house on many occasions.

Rooms 11 (2 suites, 1 junior suites, 5 executive, 3 single, 6 ground floor, all no smoking). B&B €90 pps, ss €50; children welcome (under 4s free in parents' room, cot available); pets allowed in some areas by arrangement. Private parking. Garden, outdoor heated swimming pool, walking, fishing. Closed Nov-Mar.

Directions:

On N71 between Bantry & Glengariff.