12/12/2025
Such an unexpected delight to be awarded a Cesar from Good Hotel Guide for the second time. Thank you. We are so delighted.
🌟 Best in Ireland: Newforge House
There is a happy sense of continuity at this classic Georgian country house, where sixth-generation owners Louise and John Mathers have been welcoming guests since 2005.
Standing in extensive, mature gardens, it is filled with heirloom antiques, paintings and mementos. Bedrooms bear the maiden names of past chatelaines. Bijou Waddell (after John's grandmother Emily), overlooking the rockery, has candy-striped wallpaper, a canopy bed draped with toile de Jouy fabric, a marble-floored bathroom. Beaumont has a half-tester bed, floor-to-ceiling windows, a bathroom overlooking the rose garden.
In the evening, guests gather in the drawing room for aperitifs – perhaps a Newforge rhubarb and rose gin fizz or apple whisky sour.
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