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Best family friendly hotels in Ireland
Featured Hotels with Special Offers
Rathmullan House
Rathmullan, Co. Donegal
Winter Midweek Special Offer
Pass the little gate lodge to drive up to this bay-fronted country house in wooded grounds edged by a beach on Lough Swilly.
No. 1 Pery Square
Limerick, Co. Limerick
'Wine and Dine' One Night Special Offer
'Just the job for a city-break hotel', with 'decent rooms, handy car park, sensible prices' and 'helpful staff', this former youth hostel has swapped backpackers' basics for boutique chic.
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The Mustard Seed at Echo Lodge
Ballingarry, Co. Limerick
Every painting, sculpture and piece of furniture feels cherished and chosen at John Edward Joyce's Victorian country mansion in landscaped gardens.
Enniscoe House
Ballina, Co. Mayo
Solitary Nephin, Ireland's highest stand-alone mountain, provides a dramatic backdrop to this classic, pink-washed Georgian country house in wooded grounds on Lough Conn.
Killiane Castle Country House and Farm
Drinagh, Co. Wexford
Attached to a 15th-century fortified tower house, the Mernagh family's farmhouse B&B offers both history and comfort. Guests are welcomed to this lived-in and loved home with tea or coffee and home-baked biscuits.
Ghan House
Carlingford, Co. Louth
Beneath Slieve Foy Mountain, stepping distance from the sea and within walled gardens, the Carroll family's Georgian house affords views at every turn.
Hunter's
Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
People travel from around the world to experience the old-world charms of the Gelletlie family's former coaching inn set in beautifully tended gardens and delightfully lost in time.
Temple House
Ballymote, Co. Sligo
A private drive loops through native woodland and pastures to this classical mansion overlooking a ruined Knights Templar castle and teeming fishing lake in W B Yeats country.
Lough Bawn House
Collinstown, Co. Westmeath
Verity Butterfield clearly loves to welcome guests to her loch-side Georgian house, with blazing fires, comfy sofas, good artworks, home-baked biscuits, excellent breakfasts, and dinner by arrangement.
Rosleague Manor
Letterfrack, Co. Galway
There are wonderful views from this pink-washed manor house in gardens edged by Ballinakill Bay, with interiors full of antiques and curios, imaginative menus and personable third-generation owners.
Castle Leslie Estate
Glaslough, Co. Monaghan
Gorgeous interiors and a friendly, informal ambience are a winning combination at Susan Stuart's beautiful B&B, where every bedroom has a sea view, and breakfast is quite special.
Ballyvolane House
Fermoy, Co. Cork
The relaxed, welcoming atmosphere at this Georgian country house on a working farm makes everyone feel instantly at home. Young guests have woods to explore, a tree house to discover, animals to feed, new-laid eggs to collect.
Roundwood House
Mountrath, Co. Laois
Set in 18 acres near the unspoilt Slieve Bloom mountains, this is a wonderfully relaxed and relaxing family home. Cots, kid's supper and child beds are offered, with babysitting on request – though it's worth staying in for Paddy Flynn's superb dinners.
Ballymaloe House
Shanagarry, Co. Cork
Set on a 300-acre working farm, this legendary Irish country-house hotel has grown from being a restaurant with rooms that is passionate about locally sourced food into a thriving business, with cookery school, café and arts venue.
Gregans Castle Hotel
Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare
It may not be a castle but this rambling 18th-century manor house, wrapped in gardens and with views over the otherworldly karst landscape of the Burren, has its own romantic charm.
Schoolhouse Hotel
Dublin
More Hogwarts than Dotheboys Hall, this turreted Victorian schoolhouse is now a quirky hotel with classic and contemporary bedroom styling, a garden for playtime, an appealing blackboard menu of gastropub dishes, and willing, smiling staff.
Bushmills Inn
Bushmills, Co. Antrim
Travellers have been enjoying the traditional comforts of this coaching inn, along the Causeway Coastal Route, since the 17th Century, and still feel revived by its robust food, convivial bar, cosy nooks and spacious bedrooms.
