Ballymaloe House

Top 4% of hotels in Cork

9 / 10

“Spread across a 400-acre estate in rural eastern Cork, this seventeenth-century stone mansion earns a perfect score for "service that has to be experienced to be believed."”

– Condé Nast Traveler

Fodor's

"The fountainhead of New Irish cuisine... a bigger dose of country charm can be found in some guest rooms cocooned in floral wallpapers." Full review

Hideaway Report

91.0

"Gastronomic hotel in a charming country house with a vine-clad façade east of Cork near a lovely part of the coast." Full review

Frommer's

"Combining a Georgian farmhouse facade with the tower of a 14th-century castle, this ivy-covered enclave of hospitality... is on a working farm, complete with grazing sheep and cows." Full review

The Telegraph

9.0

"Ballymaloe has been run as a hotel and restaurant by Myrtle Allen and her family since 1964, in conjunction with the famous Ballymaloe Cookery School founded by her daughter-in-law, Darina Allen." Full review

Lonely Planet