List of hotels in Ireland
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According to the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF), it represents nearly 1,000 hotels and guesthouses in Ireland.[1] This is a list of notable hotels in Ireland, mostly historic hotels, or four or five-star modern hotels. It is intended they are covered in multiple secondary sources. They are arranged by the Counties of Ireland. Hotels and guesthouses with a Michelin Star includes: K Club and Wild Honey Inn.
County Clare
[edit]Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atlantic Hotel | Spanish Point | c. 1810 | 1930 | |||||
Dromoland Castle | Near Newmarket-on-Fergus | — | Famous guests include Muhammad Ali, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Juan Carlos I and Nelson Mandela | |||||
Moy House | — | |||||||
Wild Honey Inn | Lisdoonvarna | — | (page says both - section 1 and section 3) |
14 |
County Cork
[edit]Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number
of rooms |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cork International Hotel | Near Cork Airport | 1 July 2007[2] | — | 145 | ||||
The Montenotte Hotel | Montenotte | — | ||||||
Imperial Hotel | 1813 | — | Michael Collins stayed here before he died. Daniel O'Connell and Frederick Douglass stayed here.[3][4] |
County Dublin
[edit]Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number
of rooms |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Belvedere Hotel | Great Denmark Street | — | ||||||
Berkeley Court Hotel | Ballsbridge | 21 July 1978[5] | 1 January 2016[6] | Pascal Vincent Doyle | 200[7] | |||
Burlington Hotel | Dublin 2 | 1972[8] | — | Clayton Hotels | ||||
Clarence Hotel | 6–8 Wellington Quay | 1852 | — | |||||
Clontarf Castle | Clontarf | — | ||||||
Gresham Hotel | O'Connell Street | 1817 | — | The final third of James Joyce's short story "The Dead" i set here[9] | ||||
InterContinental Dublin | Ballsbridge | February 2001 | — | InterContinental | John C. Malone | 265 | ||
Merrion Hotel | — | Reputed birthplace of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | ||||||
Mornington House | Merrion Street | — | ||||||
Mount Herbert Hotel | Old Haig's Distillery | — | 168 | |||||
Royal Hibernian Hotel | Dawson Street | 1751 | 1982 | |||||
Shelbourne Hotel | St Stephen's Green | 1824 | — | Mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses. The Constitution of the Irish Free State was drafted in the hotel in 1922, in what is now known as The Constitution Room.[10] | ||||
Wynn's Hotel | Abbey Street | 17 December 1926 | — |
County Galway
[edit]Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number
of rooms |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ashford Castle | Lough Corrib | — | Guests include Oscar Wilde, George V and Ronald Reagan | |||||
Ballynahinch Castle | Connemara | — | Billionaire Denis O'Brien and his wife Catherine[11] | Guests include Gerald Ford, Daniel O'Connell, Ranjitsinhji and Éamon de Valera[12] |
County Kildare
[edit]Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number
of rooms |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barberstown Castle | Straffan | |||||||
Carton House | Maynooth | |||||||
K Club | Straffan | |||||||
Kilkea Castle | Kilkea[13][14] |
County Kerry
[edit]Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number
of rooms |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Butler Arms Hotel | Waterville | 1884 | — | |||||
Sheen Falls Lodge | Overlooks Kenmare Bay | 1991 | — | 77 |
County Limerick
[edit]Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number
of rooms |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adare Manor | Adare | — | ||||||
Clarion Hotel | Limerick | — | Ireland's tallest hotel | |||||
Glin Castle | Glin | 1993[15] | 2008 |
County Meath
[edit]County Tipperary
[edit]County Westmeath
[edit]Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Annebrook House Hotel | Mullingar | 9 February 2007[16] | — | Berty Dunne | 93 | One of the oldest buildings still standing in Mullingar[17] | ||
Bloomfield House Hotel | Lynn | 27 July 1979[18] | — |
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111 | |||
Greville Arms Hotel | Mullingar | 1858[19] | — | Christy Maye | 40 | One of the few surviving Irish hotels known to James Joyce and mentioned by him in his writings.[20] |
County Wexford
[edit]County Wicklow
[edit]- Powerscourt Hotel | Enniskerry | | 203
References
[edit]- ^ "About Us". Irish Hotels Federation. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Opening Night for Cork's Newest Hotel" (PDF). Evening Echo. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2007 – via Corkinternationalairporthotel.com.
- ^ Browne, Bill (19 August 2022). "Cork hotel where Michael Collins spent his last nights to host commemorative programme". IrishCentral.com. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ "Cork's Imperial Hotel unveils Michael Collins portrait and names suite in his honour". Independent.ie. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
- ^ Cairns, Frank (21 July 1978). "Six-star award for P.V. Doyle!". Irish Independent. Retrieved 2024-01-02 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ "Former Berkeley Court to be demolished for apartments". Independent.ie. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ^ "Berkeley Court Hotel Opens". RTÉ Archives. 21 July 1978. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ^ "Hint of market confidence as Burlington Hotel sells for €67m". Independent.ie. 2012-11-26. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
- ^ O'Shea, Cormac (2016-06-14). "Seven places across Dublin depicted by James Joyce's works for Bloomsday". Irish Mirror. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
- ^ "Unique event to mark the signing of the 1922 Constitution takes place at Shelbourne Hotel". Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. 25 October 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
- ^ "Billionaire O'Brien reopens iconic castle hotel". Irish Examiner. 10 April 2014.
The four-star hotel was taken over by Mr O'Brien and his wife, Catherine last year and a major revamp has just been completed.
- ^ "History Timeline". Ballynahinch Castle. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ^ "Ireland's wedding castle for keeps at €16m". irishtimes.com. Irish Times. 18 March 2010. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Escape Dublin For A Weekend Trip To Kilkea Castle". Forbes. 12 February 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Glin Castle Hotel". Irish Tourism. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
- ^ O'Reilly, Linda (20 January 2007). "Tourism boost as refurbished hotel set to open next month". Westmeath Examiner. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-01-02 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ Illingworth, Ruth (22 October 2005). "The Town Park - steeped in history..." Westmeath Examiner. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-12-31 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ "New hotel is opening this week". Westmeath Topic. 26 July 1979. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-01-02 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ "History of The Greville Arms". Greville Arms Hotel. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
- ^ Daly, Leo (1975). James Joyce and the Mullingar Connection. Humanities Press. ISBN 978-0-391-00418-4.