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Linsfort Castle B&B

Inishowen, County Donegal

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We aim to help guests to enjoy their stay by providing a warm welcome, comfortable clean accommodation, and good quality well cooked food. In short, the typical old-fashioned Irish hospitality, which gave the country its world reputation as the land of a thousand welcomes.  We try an put a little of ourselves into everything we do for our visitors – natural honey from our bees, fresh eggs from our hens and in season jams and produce from our gardens and orchard.
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On the Western shore of Donegal's Inishowen Peninsula,  Linsfort Castle is a country house overlooking Lough Swilly. Originally built in 1610 on the site of an old castle, it was rebuilt in 1720. The house is described in “ Classic Irish  Houses of the Medium size as "an H plan house of 1720 with an armorial tablet recording its building by Captain Aurthur Benson in that year".

We offffer spacious accommodation where you can relax and feel comfortable  in this lovely rural coastal setting. We have over an acre of lovely gardens and a terrace with a lough view. 


Welcome to Linsfort Castle

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Connie in the Kitchen
Olod Kitchen

Amenities

  • 5 large double bedrooms with Lough views -  single beds can be added to make family or twin rooms
  • three bathrooms/shower rooms adjacent to bedrooms
  • large lounge with open fire, library, table games, quizzes
  • meals are served in our Old Irish kitchen with crane and inglenook fireplace
  • private sun terrace with Lough Swillly views
  • free wireless broadband available
Rathmullaan Room


Swily Room
Front Garden

Lower Garden

Linsfort Castle Gardens

We started planting an acre of garden from a field site in1996, with organic practices and wildlife attraction in mind. A mix of ash, birch and oak trees are nicely maturing and we have one very fine specimensof Chinese Elm. Beech and escalonia hedging give good shelter from the sea breezes for a variety of shrubs and topiary. We also have a small orchard, bee hives, vegetable garden and a pond- in- the- making.

Like all gardens it is a work in progress; all help and advice is gladly embraced from our visitiors as they stroll about or simply sit and watch our bees at work.  If anyone is  interested we are pleased to offer a basic introduction to beekeeping.

The garden is now home to a n interesting array of bird life; robins and wrens, finches and tits, blackbirds and thrushes, masgpies and jackdaws and even an errant male pheasant who pays cuorst to uor brown hens.  Last year we heard the cry of a very rare male corncrake in the meadow just below.

Laburnums

Topiary in the snow

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The Bridgestone Guide Best 100 Places to Stay in Ireland 2011

Among our 2010 visitors were John and Sally McKenna and their children. They publish the Internationally renowned Bridgestone Travel Guide to Ireland. We were delighted to be selected for inclusion in the Bridgstone Travel Guide,and , to our double delight have  been selected for inclusion in the Bridgestone Top 100 Places to Stay in Ireland! We will do our best to live up to the Bridgestone standard!   You can follow John and Sally on the links below:

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In September we appeared on UTV
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Linsfort Beaches

 Linsfort Castle  is 400 metres from the shore of Lough Swilly and enjoys access to 2 beautiful clean beaches with a very shallow aspect - a great natural playground for kids. In season we have a variety of birdlife on the shore: Brent Geese and Shelduck are amongst our winter visitors. We see seals quite regularly and on occasions dolphins, porpoises.and even a basking shark!
Linsfort Beach
Alan Rooks and Brigeen Clafferty
Linsfort Castle B&B , Linsfort , Buncrana, Inishowen, Donegal, Ireland
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