Clomantagh Castle

It is a perfect setting for anyone wishing to be ‘King’ or ‘Queen’ of the castle. Please Note: 1 of the 2 staircases is a narrow, spiral staicase.

4 double bedrooms
1 twin bedroom
2 bathrooms
Separate shower room
Open fire
Oil fired central heating
Cooker is a range (Waterford Stanley)
Washing machine
Dishwasher
Iron and ironing board
Travel cot, on request
Radio
Garden
Garden furniture

Also, the Castle is surrounded by a working farm; therefore the main gate must always be kept closed.

A contribution towards light and heat will be applied to all bookings. As a not for profit organisation, this fee makes a significant contribution to rising energy costs. It is our aim to reduce our energy consumption at all self catering holiday homes and encourage guests to reuse, reduce, recyle.

Clomantagh Castle is part of a unique settlement of tower house, farmhouse and bawn. The tower (1430s) and the farmhouse (early 1800s) are linked by doors allowing guests to wander freely between two periods of history. A mixture of simplicity and rustic charm, Clomantagh also features a Sheela-na-gig – a symbolic pagan nude carved on one of the stones.

Of outstanding importance because of the collection of buildings spanning the period from the 12th – 18th Century, the complex at Clomantagh includes a 12th Century parish church, an early 15th Century tower house, an almost intact boundary or bawn wall with a medieval dovecote, and a 19th Century farmhouse.

High on the tower house, above the roof of the farmhouse, there is evidence on an external wall, of an earlier attached structure. This is most likely the banqueting hall, which we know from contemporary descriptive accounts of Irish life was used for entertaining, the lord and his family only returning to the safety of the stone castle to sleep.