| Lough Key
House is a welcoming Georgian Period house B&B in Boyle, Co. Roscommon,
Ireland.
It is run by Frances McDonagh and her daughters.
Lough Key House offers
Superb Accommodation in
Period
Surroundings.
The house shares two of it's boundary walls with Lough Key
Forest and Activity Park. It's black iron gates are the
next entrance over from the park entrance. Though it is
easily found on the N4 it is surrounded by the tranquility
of 865 acres of mixed woodlands.
Lough Key
House is set on 11 acres of paddocks, orchard and gardens. The Rose Garden beside the house is a lovely place to sit
on warm summer evenings. The stone seat in the nearby herb
garden is also a favourite retreat, while the vegetable garden
is for work times only.
While Frances is an avid hillwalker, Amy is passionate about
horses and so Aginardo and Toby graze the
paddocks and tolerate Duncan the donkey.
Hens are kept in high esteem because they faithfully produce
eggs everyday. The geese are not so productive.
Afternoons might find us climbing over the orchard wall into
Upper Kilbryan Wood, part of the Forest Park, which sprouts
3 million bluebells in April-May, and is a sight to behold.
It's path meanders through beech and pine trees overlooking
parkland, with a glimpse of the lake and a view of the Curlew
Mountains. It follows the old Rockingham Demense wall for
a mile and a half, passing it's beautiful second gate, until
it reaches the lake's edge.
Evenings are whiled away in the warm sitting room with a blazing
fire.
There are plenty of board games, coffee table books,
a piano, and a flat screen TV.
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