Clone House

  Built on the site of a deserted village in a Wicklow valley, this extraordinary food, drink and leisure complex exists thanks to the vision of three brothers, Evan, Eoin and Bernard Doyle. Below we outline the various strands that make up this very complex opera ...

Owned by the Redmond family, this unpretentious and well-run hotel contributes much needed amenities to the Gorey area, offering quality accommodation and providing facilities for functions both large and small, including conferences, weddings and all of the family and c ...

 If exceptional cooking of hyper-local produce in one of the island’s most under-discovered beauty spots sounds like your kind of food experience, then an all-inclusive night or two at this rustic-chic West Wicklow ‘mountain lodge for foodies’ coul ...

This large, rambling country house is just an hour from Dublin, but it could be in a different world. Although it's very professionally operated, the O'Flynn family insist that this romantic spot is not an hotel and the gentle rhythms of life around the country house an ...

Just 10 minutes' drive west of Athy, Burtown House is an early Georgian villa surrounded by beautiful gardens, parkland walks and farmland .  It is one of only two houses in Co Kildare to have remained in the original family, and an extraordinarily talented one at ...

On the edge of the town and set well back from the road, this is a hotel with a difference: how many hotels have a welcoming array of exotic animals like Jacobs sheep and alpacas grazing in grassy enclosures? Beside them, a well laid out (and well lit) car park is set ...