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Golf, falconry, fishing, riding and spa — on the estate

Castle hotels with activities

The Irish castle hotels with genuine on-estate activities beyond the room and the restaurant — championship golf, falconry schools, salmon fisheries, equestrian centres and spa treatments, verified from each property's own listings.

A castle hotel's grounds are usually its biggest asset, and the best of them put those acres to work. Castle Leslie in Monaghan runs a full equestrian centre alongside falconry and clay shooting; Dromoland and Waterford Castle each have their own championship golf courses; Kilronan and Castlemartyr run full spa programmes.

Every activity listed on this page's cards was found on the hotel's own site — this isn't a generic "castle hotels have grounds" list.

Golf, falconry, fishing, riding and spa — on the estate

Castle Hotels with Activities

4-starCastle Leslie Estate, Monaghan
Glaslough, Co. Monaghan

Castle Leslie Estate

One of the last great Irish castle estates still in the hands of its founding family, famous as the venue for Paul McCartney and Heather Mills' 2002 wedding.

4-starView stay →
5-star / luxuryDromoland Castle, Clare
Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. Clare

Dromoland Castle

A baronial castle hotel with a thousand years of continuous family history behind the estate, set on 450 acres near Shannon.

5-star / luxuryView stay →
4-starWaterford Castle, Waterford
Ballinakill (The Island), Waterford City, Co. Waterford

Waterford Castle

The only Irish castle hotel located on its own private island, with a genuine medieval keep at its core alongside 14 antique-furnished castle suites.

4-starView stay →
4-star
Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon

Kilronan Castle

A dramatically restored 19th-century castellated mansion overlooking Lough Meelagh, rebuilt from a roofless ruin into a spa hotel by the Hanly Group in 2006.

4-starView stay →
4-starKilkea Castle, Kildare
Castledermot, Co. Kildare

Kilkea Castle

One of Ireland's oldest continuously inhabited castles, sold by the last Earl in 1963 and operated as a hotel since.

4-starView stay →
luxury exclusive-useLismore Castle, Waterford
Lismore, Co. Waterford

Lismore Castle

A genuine medieval-founded castle with 15 bedrooms, offered fully staffed and catered on an exclusive-hire basis overlooking the Blackwater river.

luxury exclusive-useView stay →
5-star / luxuryCastlemartyr Resort, Cork
Castlemartyr, Co. Cork

Castlemartyr Resort

A 5-star resort centred on a 17th-century manor house standing beside the ruins of a genuine 800-year-old medieval castle on the same 220-acre grounds.

5-star / luxuryView stay →
luxury exclusive-useCrom Castle, Fermanagh
Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh

Crom Castle

A still-lived-in aristocratic castle available for fully staffed exclusive-use stays (whole castle or West Wing), set in nearly 2,000 acres of parkland.

luxury exclusive-useView stay →
boutique
Ballina, Co. Mayo

Belleek Castle

A castellated Gothic-Revival building with an eccentric onsite museum of medieval weaponry, on the banks of the River Moy.

boutiqueView stay →
Castle hotelSpringfield Castle, Limerick
Drumcollogher, Co. Limerick

Springfield Castle

An exclusive-use castle sleeping 15 across 8 bedrooms, with private leisure facilities including a sauna and hot tub.

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