Rosleague Manor Hotel

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Resting on the quiet shores of Ballinakill Bay, and beautifully secluded within 30 acres of its own private woodland, Rosleague Manor in Connemara is one of Ireland’s finest regency hotels. Tucked away near the beautiful Connemara town of Letterfrack, just 15 kilometres from the buzzing town of Clifden, the Manor has been discreetly converted in to a first class hotel by its owners and proprietors

, The Foyle Family, with meticulous care and attention to detail to retain its 19th Century charm and character. Enjoy a unique dining in Clifden experience amidst open log fires and historical paintings – retire to one of our drawing rooms and enjoy a nightcap – or take to the Victorian conservatory and savour some afternoon tea. Minutes from Kylemore Abbey, The Twelve Bens, Lough Inagh and the 5,000 acre Connemara National Park, this Letterfrack hotel is ideally situated for the most discerning explorer.

I was chatting with my good friend , the ever wise beyond his years Shane Young the other day. About how blessed I was ...
30/05/2026

I was chatting with my good friend , the ever wise beyond his years Shane Young the other day.
About how blessed I was feeling reflecting on the crew we've opened with this year and that it may be the best in 28 years of re-re-awakening the old Girl.
However I was finding it hard to enjoy it , as I was afraid something would come out of left field to mess it all up..... Well he says , whats the point in suffering through the tough times, if you can't enjoy the good times when they arrive!

As everyone with any connection to the trade is well aware , the last 5+ years have been the toughest to recruit for the kitchen team and it hasn't gotten much easier.
Yet here I am with unquestionably the best Kitchen team we've had in all my years & like all the best teams - they've had a few seasons together to fine tune their game.
Thanks to Shane, I'm determined to try and enjoy it.

Luckily I'm reminded by our Guests on a daily basis during Breakfast & Dinner service as well as checkout, but the real gifts are in the lack of constant stress, along with having the confidence to take some time away with the kids or messing around with the chainsaws on the latest projects - more to follow on that!

So a big thank you to the team and also to all our loyal guests for their kind words and to the likes of John Healy and many other regulars who scoffed and were rightfully horrified at the idea we would move to 6 nights a week permanently when recruitment was particularly challenging...

It taught me a very important & liberating lesson, that the food at Rosleague is far more important than I or even Jono will ever be, so I no longer stress or feel guilty about taking an evening off!

I always loved an auld Quid Pro Quo deal and in these tricky times, its more welcome than ever. As you've all seen on he...
11/05/2026

I always loved an auld Quid Pro Quo deal and in these tricky times, its more welcome than ever. As you've all seen on here my photography skillz are seriously lacking, so when I got chatting to Chloe from www.theawakenedlens.com & her mom at checkout and she mentioned she'd taken a few pics if I wanted to have a look....and a deal was done!

A real eye for the many details here that I perhaps take for granted and a willingness to embrace shadow and darker shades that most seem to avoid or try to enhance.

This is normally the prettiest time of year in the Garden & with everything a bit late after the soggy Spring, there is...
03/05/2026

This is normally the prettiest time of year in the Garden & with everything a bit late after the soggy Spring, there is some wonderful overlapping going on between the fresh lime green Beech leaves, Blue Bells & Wild Garlic gone mental, cultivated Rhody's coming into their best and what looks like a bumper crop of biennial Fox Gloves starting to emerge. The mossy paths & walks across the headland await!

The pic of the wild garlic is especially encouraging as its an area where we cleared a football pitch sized area of 30ft invasive Rhody about 7-8 years ago and as always with that blight, the ground underneath was totally lifeless at the time. Spent many hours over the intervening years keeping the rushes& Gunera at bay and was rewarded with a carpet of White when I went to check it the other day.

The last pic is of a perfectly formed little whip of a tree we planted a little over a month ago, one of over 1000 that seem to be loving the mix of very damp soil, newly formed gaps in the top canopy and of late more blue skies and sun.

As always Mother Nature just needs a helping hand from time to time and you shall be showered with a trifecta of rewards - visual, soul and plate!

The Law of Unintended Consequences..... can be painful, costly, infuriating ..... but also the Mother of Invention!Havin...
16/04/2026

The Law of Unintended Consequences..... can be painful, costly, infuriating ..... but also the Mother of Invention!
Having spent good money after bad many times in the early years, I've learnt that the best approach is go big or go home!
And if the right thing to do is dig floors or knock walls , then have at it.

So for the new bathroom featured recently , I wanted to relocate things and add a walkin shower.
Made a lovely plan & layout that this wonderful old House decided to tear up.
Yes Mark you can have the shower in that corner but the only way it's feasible is if you rip out the entire floor, cut joists and all , run them the other way etc etc.
But on reflection you can't do that because it would mean tearing down the ceiling in the whole entrance hall below....
Your only alternative is to demolish a fair bit of the 200+ year old stone wall and run the waste through that , then rebuild and repoint with lime mortar etc- make it so fellas!

Plastered the walls pre tiling.... well that ceiling could come down anyday now so while we're in here.....carry on.
All that expensive insulation you pumped into the attic came down too....ok insulated plasterboard it is and redo all the cornicing, ceiling rose etc

Final touches now, you know how the toilet is now in the middle of that wall, well there's nowhere to put the toilet roll holder.

Ok....here's one we found online - thats as ugly as sin and will be flittered in no time - go have a look yourself so.

Now I like Etsy for some stuff , so had a look at the selection from €100-250 - I KNOW I can do better than that for a lot less.

Out to the garden, dig out the copper we ripped out of the floor of the very same bathroom, absolute quality - pipe and fittings of a thickness and resilience we can only dream of these days .
The harder I hit it with wire brush, pads and cloth - the better it looked.
Now where's that weird triangle piece of spalted beech I randomly saved a couple of years ago, bit of sanding, add some danish oil/yacht varnish & spirits special mix - Jobs a goddun😆

I asked Jono for a sad face and while its not in his nature, he did his best.....Cancellations - We rarely ever charge w...
11/04/2026

I asked Jono for a sad face and while its not in his nature, he did his best.....Cancellations - We rarely ever charge when life or illness gets in the way, but just to reassure folk that given the current issues and uncertainty, we will not charge for any rooms cancelled, even on the day & including bookings made through third parties like bookings.com. There is enough anger, division & fear on the internet already, so please keep any comments to how handsome Jono is or to happier times in the past or yet to be experienced!

Well after a hectic & largely blessed few weekends on the wedding front, Jono says he's ready for a break for a few week...
29/03/2026

Well after a hectic & largely blessed few weekends on the wedding front, Jono says he's ready for a break for a few weeks as am I!

The pair of us are really looking forward to welcoming back our gang of Easter regulars, both canine , 2 legged and even moreso our Hazel & the crutches!

Just a reminder for those not in the know that we now have 5 pet friendly rooms with wooden floors & direct access to the Gardens & forest from the room.
The wedding Guests were having too much fun or were too hung over to take him for the regular swims & long walks over mossy paths to the headland , so as you can see - he's waiting patiently.

Thank you so much to Maureen Grady for the brilliant pic of him at the Dining Room door with his ball & if you look closely you can see Tyson lurking in the 4th pic, who knew a man could be so charmed as to have had 2 'Once in a Lifetime dogs' back to back.

More & more convinced its the House, crew and lovely folk we seem to attract!

Weekend special the 10th AprilRelax and take in the stunning views from our cozy lounge by the fire, while we handle the...
24/03/2026

Weekend special the 10th April

Relax and take in the stunning views from our cozy lounge by the fire, while we handle the cooking.

https://www.rosleague.com/bookings.html #!/accommodation/search/date/2026-04-10/2026-04-12?lang=en

Folk always said my Uncle Paddy had wonderful taste and though he drove Auntie Ann cracked at times, with his proclivity...
24/03/2026

Folk always said my Uncle Paddy had wonderful taste and though he drove Auntie Ann cracked at times, with his proclivity for spending tens of thousands on Antiques when he got bored over the Winter....

I am now very happy and proud to be their keeper and restorer.

This absolutely stunning Chrome/Marble/Nickel sink in the new bathroom is one of a pair he picked up in the '70's from no less than John Lennon's former Home - Tittenhurst Park, Ascot.

Certificate of Authenticity attached & as with most things made back in the day, the quality shines through.

Some of my car polishing gear brought up the nickel & chrome as good as new and I managed to retain the original sink (partly because I'd never be able to match the size, but more for originality! ) with a combo of elbow grease, epoxy & enamel paint.
Finished off with some nice inlaid pieces from an old repro wardrobe to cover the pipework.

Twas down to the wire getting this new bathroom finished for our first weekend just passed!We re-open fulltime from next...
24/03/2026

Twas down to the wire getting this new bathroom finished for our first weekend just passed!

We re-open fulltime from next weekend and our usual off seaon added value packages are available to book online or by phone/email over 1, 2 or 3-4 nights mid week, weekends are mostly full .

Massive thank you to both the building crew & housekeepers who showed up unrequested & unannounced on Paddy's Day to ensure we could complete my vision for it.
In particular my usual eclectic collection or bits of old and new hardwoods and along with native pieces sourced from our own forest, to add a little warmth and tecture to all the shiney new fittings and tiles.

View from the bath is not too shabby & myself and Dara had some craic fitting my salvaged piece of Ash, stunningly shaped by Mother Nature & the dieback to light fitting!

Well a Happy St Patricks Day, belated Happy Tree week & also an early Happy Rewilding Day! A long overdue quick ackowled...
17/03/2026

Well a Happy St Patricks Day, belated Happy Tree week & also an early Happy Rewilding Day!
A long overdue quick ackowledgement of 2 of our stalwarts at Rosleague - Dermot Nee & Paschal Conneely.
Dermot is one of the 'Originals' - crew I was lucky to retain nearly 30 years ago when the 3rd generation kicked in.
He's filled nearly as many roles as myself over the years , finally settling into his happy place of Head Gardener & Breakfast Chef
He really, really loves when I come to him with new ideas & plans so was 'so excited & thrilled' to be presented with the following selection of trees to plant last week & next.....

245 Alder
235 Birch
122 Sessile Oak
80 Scots Pine
120 hawthorn
40 Wild Cherry
27 Rowan
25 Hazel
15 Grey Willow
10 Crab Apple
50 Mixed native

They'll go someway to filling new gaps in the canopy and patches of new light opened up and bring us close to 10,000 native trees planted on the Grounds of Rosleague in the last 8 years.

Paschal started working at Rosleague at the rip old age of 9 or 10 for my Aunt Ann and I was only thrilled to watch him progress from squeezing OJ & polishing silver through to head Commis chef & Ast Breakfast Chef.
If anything I was even happier for him & a little envious the day he came to let me know he was setting up his own business offering Gardening & Lanscaping services, thus he is responsible for the super tidy 'Short Back & Sides' the old Girl just got in advance of re-opening.

https://www.conneelygardens.com/ or 087 796 4097

I've as much chance of catching Shergar in a photo , so the greenery will have to do for now!

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Letterfrack, Connemara
Letterfrack
GALWAY

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