Barrow House Luxury Manor
Review
Barrow House Luxury Manor casts a spell on Kerry’s North-West coast: a once-faded shoreline grande dame reborn by owner Daragh McDonagh into one of Ireland’s most romantic addresses. Luxury comes as standard, but it’s the storytelling that lingers in each of its eight bird-named rooms, each with its own unique design. The Puffin room stopped me in my tracks: a Chinese-themed sanctuary centred on a Qing-Dynasty opulent marriage bed, a two-century-old canopy masterpiece you’d sooner expect behind museum glass in China. Its carving and proportion hint at patrons of status, its presence whispers promise. Beyond bedrooms, salons glow, fires crackle, and windows frame picture-postcard views across Barrow’s luminous water. Proposals feel inevitable here; weddings, entirely at home. Service is attentive without theatre, the ambiance rich yet gently unhurried. Come for coastal beauty; stay for a house that treats romance not as décor, but as its guiding heart, generous, and utterly, gloriously unforgettable.
- Top 100 Review
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Barrow
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Tralee, Co. Kerry
, V92 Y270
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