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Early Season Room sale

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2006 Season (February  - November)
Room rate only
€27.50 per person sharing
Full breakfast menu available on request

 

Arguably Kinsale's Most Famous
Tudor Style Bed & Breakfast

 

Proud to be awarded a Four Shamrock Rating from Doras

Sunday Times, Susan d'Arcy - "run by the colourful
Carmel Kelly-O'Gorman, which is all four poster beds and eccentric touches"

Sunday Telegraph, Allan Bestic - "another of her specialities is smoked salmon with scrambled egg.
When it comes to Breakfast, it beats most five star hotels out of sight"

Cork Examiner Maureen Fox, -
"The Lighthouse is not just a place to sleep it really is an experience"

Sunday Express, Kevin Wilson - " a tourist board establishment owned by the highly entertaining
Carmel Kelly-O'Gorman"

Harpers and Queen, Charles Glass -
"a charming place to stay in Kinsale is The Lighthouse"

 

Lady Golfer

John O’Connor, president of the astonishing Old Head Golf Links at Kinsale, suggests “If God played gold he would play at the Old Head and stay at The Lighthouse.   Now The Almighty is probably too clever to ever get himself involved in a game as maddening as golf but anyone, and I mean anyone, would surely become lit up by The Lighthouse.  

 

This establishment, and I use the expression with great deliberation, is not a hotel and it is not B&B.   It is small and exclusive, but it is open and exuberant.  It is eccentric but extremely comfortable.  When you are in Kinsale and you ask directions to The Lighthouse, they don’t send you a few miles down the road to the point of Old Head, they send you up the hill to The Rock, where the delightful Carmel Kelly-O’Gorman will illuminate your stay with a mixture of grand Irish charm and vibrant enthusiasm.   The rooms are lovely – four posters, keys colour-coded with silk.  They are en-suite and imbue a haven-like atmosphere.   Antiques abound.   Many of the rooms have panoramic views of Kinsale harbour.   But they are only things.

The Lighthouse is The Lighthouse because of Carmel Kelly-O’Gorman who clearly believes that life is the true celebration.  And so she sparkles and laughs and listens and talks.   She serves her food and her obvious enjoyment at being able to afford her ultimate completely un-patronising brand of hospitality in large portions.  

Kinsale is known as the gourmet capital of Ireland and – naturally – Ms Kelly-O’Gorman knows where to direct you, depending not only on your gastronomic leanings but your state of mind.   It is right that The Lighthouse is internationally acclaimed as arguably the most famous accommodation in Kinsale,  Any such place must, of course, conform to certain functionalities.  

But no tourist board could really put into words why The Lighthouse could truly offer an explanation as to why, when you leave, you just feel so much better than when you arrived.

 

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Your Hostess Carmel Kelly O'Gorman
THE LIGHTHOUSE
Kinsale, Co. Cork. Ireland
Tel: 353 (0)21 4772734
Fax: 353 (0)21 4773282
Email: info@lighthouse-kinsale.com

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