According to the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF), it represents nearly 1,000 hotels and guesthouses in Ireland. [1] This is a list of notable hotels in Ireland, mostly historic hotels, or four or five-star modern hotels. It is intended they are covered in multiple secondary sources. They are arranged by the Counties of Ireland. Hotels and guesthouses with a Michelin Star includes: K Club and Wild Honey Inn.
| Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic Hotel | Spanish Point | c. 1810 | 1930 | |||||
| Dromoland Castle | Near Newmarket-on-Fergus | — |  | Famous guests include Muhammad Ali, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Juan Carlos I and Nelson Mandela | ||||
| Moy House | — | |||||||
| Wild Honey Inn | Lisdoonvarna | — | (page says both - section 1 and section 3) | 14 |
| Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cork International Hotel | Near Cork Airport | 1 July 2007 [2] | — | | 145 | |||
| The Montenotte Hotel | Montenotte | — | | |||||
| Imperial Hotel | 1813 | — | Michael Collins stayed here before he died. Daniel O'Connell and Frederick Douglass stayed here. [3] [4] | |||||
| Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Belvedere Hotel | Great Denmark Street | — | | |||||
| Berkeley Court Hotel | Ballsbridge | 21 July 1978 [5] | 1 January 2016 [6] | Pascal Vincent Doyle | | 200 [7] | ||
| Burlington Hotel | Dublin 2 | 1972 [8] | — | Clayton Hotels | | |||
| Clarence Hotel | 6–8 Wellington Quay | 1852 | — | | ||||
| Clontarf Castle | Clontarf | — | ||||||
| Gresham Hotel | O'Connell Street | 1817 | — | | The final third of James Joyce's short story "The Dead" i set here [9] | |||
| InterContinental Dublin | Ballsbridge | February 2001 | — | InterContinental | John C. Malone | | 265 | |
| Merrion Hotel | — | | Reputed birthplace of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | |||||
| Mornington House | Merrion Street | — | ||||||
| Mount Herbert Hotel | Old Haig's Distillery | — | | 168 | ||||
| Royal Hibernian Hotel | Dawson Street | 1751 | 1982 | | ||||
| Shelbourne Hotel | St Stephen's Green | 1824 | — | | Mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses . The Constitution of the Irish Free State was drafted in the hotel in 1922, in what is now known as The Constitution Room. [10] | |||
| Wynn's Hotel | Abbey Street | 17 December 1926 | — | | ||||
| Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashford Castle | Lough Corrib | — | | Guests include Oscar Wilde, George V and Ronald Reagan | ||||
| Ballynahinch Castle | Connemara | — | | Billionaire Denis O'Brien and his wife Catherine [11] | Guests include Gerald Ford, Daniel O'Connell, Ranjitsinhji and Éamon de Valera [12] | |||
| Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barberstown Castle | Straffan | | ||||||
| Carton House | Maynooth | | ||||||
| K Club | Straffan | |||||||
| Kilkea Castle | Kilkea [13] [14] |
| Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butler Arms Hotel | Waterville | 1884 | — | |||||
| Sheen Falls Lodge | Overlooks Kenmare Bay | 1991 | — | | 77 | |||
| Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adare Manor | Adare | — | | |||||
| Clarion Hotel | Limerick | — | Ireland's tallest hotel | |||||
| Glin Castle | Glin | 1993 [15] | 2008 | |||||
| Hotel | Location | Opened | Closed | Chain | Proprietor | Class | Number of rooms | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annebrook House Hotel | Mullingar | 9 February 2007 [16] | — | Berty Dunne | | 93 | One of the oldest buildings still standing in Mullingar [17] | |
| Bloomfield House Hotel | Lynn | 27 July 1979 [18] | — |
| | 111 | ||
| Greville Arms Hotel | Mullingar | 1858 [19] | — | Christy Maye | | 40 | One of the few surviving Irish hotels known to James Joyce and mentioned by him in his writings. [20] |
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