Each week, we spotlight a hotel recommended by some of the industry's top travel writers. This week's pick is Ballynahinch Castle in Connemara, Ireland. There are few things I'd rather do on a ...

Just off the main road, Ballynahinch Castle Hotel stands as a haven for the traveler and the local alike. The 450-acre estate's drive wends over the Ballynahinch River.

Ballynahinch Castle Hotel in Galway, Ireland, has been described in one word that perfectly characterizes it: “poetry.” This manor and its 450-acre woodland estate in the spiritual heart of ...

She lives on the 450-acre estate with her husband, Patrick O’Flaherty, the hotel’s genial general manager, in a ­modest, modernist glass house not far from the castle.