Bantry House

County Cork


The six guest rooms in this aristocratic mansion are decorated with antiques and contemporary furnishings – when you're not playing croquet, lawn tennis or billiards you can lounge in the library, once the doors of the historic house have closed to the public (guests have free access to the house). Rooms 22 and 25 have views of both the garden and the bay.


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