This is an authentic pre-famine hill village.  The owners bought their house and the property for the privacy and the views.  While clearing years of overgrowth from the land, they discovered a 350-year old derelict  cottage.  Subsequent explorations revealed the remains of a small hamlet.  These several cottages, dating from the Battle of Aughrim (1691) and the famine (1845), have been authentically restored, retaining many original features.  It’s taken several years to do this.  They have given great care to the land, paid attention to every stone and tree.   The results are emotional and beautiful.

Drive with your back to the sea and turn onto a rough track through raw bog land.  Enter the tiny hamlet and turn down a narrow laneway that leads to the old well and potato fields.

Accommodates 6 - 7
6 bedrooms
5 bathrooms

Step into the small sitting/dining room that is taller than it is wide.  It has the original fireplace, stone floors with underfloor heating, walls painted soft colors, traditional small windows.  Upholstered chairs and wood tables are custom-made.  Appointments are sympathetic to the cottage’s history. 

Two en suite bedrooms, both small, one with an antique standard double bed and one with a single bed, are on the ground floor  Two bright tiled en suite bathrooms each has a shower.  A narrow stairway leads to avery tiny bedroom above the living room.  It has a single bed and a small chest of drawers.

A short corridor leads to a small wing, named Ciob (Sedge), that was once a stable.  The tiny kitchen is a delight: beautiful tiled floors, walls and counter tops, a stove, refrigerator/freezer, dishwasher and microwave.  

Off the corridor, there is a small tiled shower room.  There is a second sitting room, very small.  It, too, has a peat-burning fireplace.  There are two single bedrooms off the sitting room and two shower rooms, one en suite.  Up a narrow, winding stairway there is another single bedroom.

Accommodates 4
2 bedrooms
1 bathroom

This 170 year old thatched cshed and store house was supposed to be demolished, but the owners had other ideas.   It is now a delighgul cottage.

The small sitting/dining room has four comfortable chairs, nice accessorites, stone floors with underfloor heating, a fireplace, TV, video, radio.  The compact kitchen has a stove, refrigerator/freezer, dishwasher and microwave.  The ground-floor bedroom has twin beds.  The loft, above the living/dining room, has a traditional cast iron double bed.  The bathroom, off the sitting room, has a tiled shower.  The little garden is perfect for al fresco meals.

You can rent one cottage or all three cottages (accommodating up to 13 people).  The cottages have been rated 4-star by The Irish Tourist Board.