The Summer Holidays are Here
The summer holidays are here. All is lush and green with long swishy swashy grass and wildflowers in every direction including up on the...
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- Feb 21
Froggy Love is in the Air
Valentines Day may have passed but love is still in the air... and on the bog, and in the fields, in the ditches, in the puddles and on...
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- Jun 17, 2022
Lunchtime in the meadow
It's all go in the meadow. This little cuckoo flower is proving popular!
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- May 9, 2022
A Friendly Pheasant
We've had a pretty prowler over the last couple of evenings making lots of squawky noise and venturing right up to our window. It's...
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- Mar 8, 2022
A Cosy Winter Retreat
Curl up and unwind after a cross country hike or (if brave enough) a winter lake dip.. With its strawbale thermal mass walls, underfloor...
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- Mar 8, 2022
More signs of Spring
Canada Geese are back on the lake again. As its name implies, the greater Canada goose is not a native species - in Ireland colonisation...
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- Mar 8, 2022
Spring is here
The frogs are spawning and the buds are budding...hello Spring. Nature keeps to her schedule and the world keeps turning despite the...
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- May 13, 2021
Tripadvisor 2021 Travellers' Choice Award Winner
We are so thrilled to receive a Tripadvisor 2021 Travellers' Choice Award thanks to all the guests who took the time to write about their...
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- Feb 22, 2021
Bird Nest
What a find! An abandoned bird nest in a Rhodedendron bush - what clever little birdies made this we wonder and made it so well that it...
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- Jul 16, 2020
Nature's Classroom
If you're bat squeamish then look away. The girls were pretty stoked with this find. We wonder is/was it a baby or full blown adult, it...
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- Jul 17, 2019
Mating butterflies
Pretty Meadow Brown butterflies are everywhere at the moment. These two are getting a little romantic. :-) #Nature #Butterfly #Summer
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- Jul 12, 2019
We are now a Failte Ireland Approved accommodation provider
A milestone moment - we have received official certification from Failte Ireland, the Irish Tourist Authority. Having passed all its...
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- Feb 28, 2019
Spring..and love..is in the air
Spring is in the air - and love is in the air too if you're a frog. We have lots of frog spawn in the usual places and frogs everywhere...
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- Jan 28, 2019
Lake Reflections
What a beautifully still lake this morning, the forest spotlit by the early morning sun. #morningslikethese #LakesideGlamping #Donegal...
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- Aug 27, 2018
Yurt No 1 is going up!
Our first yurt is going up this week hurrah! Over two weeks have been spent preparing the foundations and platform, much longer than...
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- Jul 25, 2018
Wild billbery-picking
We are very lucky to have wild bilberries growing along the shoreline and they are now ripe for picking! The girls actually managed to...
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- Jun 28, 2018
Lime rendering now complete
Lime rendering the external walls is now complete. Coat after coat has been applied by hand, initially massaged into the straw and then...
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- Jun 21, 2018
Wildflower heaven
A small selection of the beautiful wildflowers that now dot the landscape at Lough Mardal #Wildflowers #Nature #Ecofriendly...
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- Jun 21, 2018
Butterfly eggs
Cuckoo flower with teeny tiny orange specks that are the eggs laid by the orange tip butterfly. And two photobombing flies. And filthy...
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- Mar 23, 2018
March Update
Well, we're getting there. We've been building throughout a pretty harsh Winter and although at time of writing it is yet another cold...
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