The Hotel
With just fifteen rooms for its 600 acre estate, Ballyfin is becoming famous as a unique hotel offering unparalleled privacy, discretion and luxury. It affords guests the opportunity to admire, and enjoy, the union of art, architecture, interior and landscape design which coalesces in the Irish country house. The kitchen is run by Fred Cordonnier, formerly head chef at Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, Dublin.
The whole house is available for single bookings. Demesne facilities offered include biking, boating and canoeing on the lake, coarse fishing, tennis, croquet, lawnbowls, hurling, Gaelic football, American football, badminton, picnics, horticultural demonstrations. Archery, clay-pigeon shooting, falconry and horse-riding can also be arranged. House activities include a swimming pool, gym with services of a personal trainer, treatment rooms offering the Voya organic seaweed range, wine tasting, whiskey tasting, cookery demonstrations, history tour, traditional & classical music, Irish folklore story-telling.
The grounds which had for several generations previously been open for use by locals for walking, fishing and other recreational activities when the house was run as a school have been closed however and the lands are now available for the high paying hotel guests only. The gates are permanently locked banning local access.
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