Breac House is a boutique hotel in
County Donegal
County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconne ...
, Ireland.
The hotel is on
Horn Head peninsula near
Dunfanaghy and overlooks
Killahoey Strand,
Sheephaven Bay
Sheephaven Bay ( ga, Cuan na gCaorach) is a broad, shallow inlet on the north coast of County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. Bounded by the peninsulae of Rosguill, to the east and Horn Head ( ga, Corrán Binne) to the west, the bay is relatively p ...
, and
Muckish Mountain.
It opened in 2017.
The hotel has only four guest rooms; three were part of the original design and a fourth was added during the
COVID-19 shutdowns.
It was designed to recall a traditional
longhouse
A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.
Many were built from timber and often rep ...
by
Letterkenny
Letterkenny ( ga, Leitir Ceanainn , meaning 'hillside of the O'Cannons'), nicknamed 'the Cathedral Town', is the largest and most populous town in County Donegal, a county in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Letterkenny lies on the R ...
architecture firm
MacGabhann.
The grounds include a traditional Irish
sweathouse with a
grass roof
A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It may also include additional layers such as a root barrier and drainage ...
.
Owners Cathrine Burke and Niall Campbell, who are originally from
Dublin
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, live onsite.
In April of 2023 the hotel was included in the ''Irish Sunday Times''
' list of ten great hotels of Ireland and the ''Evening Standard'' named it to their list of the world's most
sustainable
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hotels.
References
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Hotels in Ireland
2017 establishments
Boutique hotels