Frances McDonagh, Proprietor

About Lough Key House ***** B&B

The house shares two of it's boundary walls with Lough Key Forest and Activity Park. It's black iron gates are just west of the park entrance, so it is easily found on the N4.

It is set on eleven acres of paddocks, orchard and gardens. The Rose Garden beside the house is a lovely place to receive tea and home baking 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!

Frances loves to experiment with homemade preserves and cordials, her current favourites are grapefruit and lemon marmalade and elderflower cordial! She likes to offer more than just the traditional irish breakfast, and so makes scrambled eggs with smoked salmon or fresh herb omelettes. Frances tends the herb garden while
the hens lay the eggs fresh every morning.

While Frances enjoys hillwalking, her daughter Amy is passionate about horses and so Aginardo and Toby graze the paddocks and chomp on the windfalls.

Afternoons might find us climbing over the orchard wall into Upper Kilbryan Wood,

part of the Forest Park, which sprouts 3 million (approx!) bluebells in April-May, and
is a sight to behold. It provides a beautiful walk to the lake's edge.

Evenings are whiled away in the warm sitting room with a blazing fire and WIFI!

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Email: loughkeyhouse@gmail.com