This luxury 300-year old private castle was built in 1760 and is home to John and Teresa Russell who manage it directly and recently lovingly restored it to its full former glory.
This luxury Castle is beautifully positioned amid mature private parkland by the beautiful Glen of Aherlow, and the famous Galtee mountains. The nearby area is a walker's paradise with routes for all capabilities with three highly rated 18 hole courses within 10 miles of the Castle and public Tennis courts within 5 miles.
Complete privacy for your family gathering, birthday celebration, small wedding or get-together of friends. with welcoming wood fires, period features and a gracious, elegant atmosphere
The luxury castle accommodation includes: Downstairs: Newly refurbished and fully equipped old country-style kitchen, featuring all modern conveniences including American style double fridge, dishwasher, washer, dryer, oven, microwave etc. seating for 6-12
Dining room: elegant dining room with capacity for 15-18 seated. Optional dining room seating 30 for special occasions(extra cost).
Lounge: elegant double lounge (seating 12) featuring anteroom with full snooker table, leading to outdoor garden, covered terrace and barbeque area. First floor lounge seating 6-8.
The property features 7 bedrooms all with private facilities, sleeping a maximum of 7-16 adults. Two ensuite bedrooms are available as optional extras, sleeping 4 more adults bringing total accommodation to 20 adults (plus 4 sofa-beds suitable for children).
First floor:
Garden room: 4 poster bed (5ft) with ensuite bathroom. View to walled gardens at rear of castle.
Lady Elizabeths room: Canopy bed (5ft) with ensuite bathroom. View castle grounds and surrounding countryside.
Round Tower room: Sleigh bed (5ft) with ensuite bathroom. Romantic curved room with views of front and side castle grounds and surrounding countryside. Castle room: Period style brass beds (1 x 5ft and 1 x single) with ensuite bathroom. Views of surrounding countryside. Copper Beeches suite: Period style brass beds (1 x 5ft and 1 x single) + double sofa bed (suitable for accommodating 1 adult or 2 children, ideal for families). Adjacent large private bathroom featuring stand-alone claw-foot slipper style roll-top bath tub. View to front of the castle and the eponymous beautiful copper beech trees.
Generals room: Sleigh bed (5ft) + double sofa bed (suitable for accommodating 1 adult or 2 children). Ensuite bathroom. View to walled gardens at rear of castle.
Second Floor:
The Tower Studio: 4 poster bed (4ft 6in) + double sofa bed, with ensuite bathroom. Expansive views to front and side of castle grounds and surrounding countryside.
Its central location, 1 hour drive from Cork, Kilkenny, and Limerick. 2.5 hours from Dublin, Killarney and Galway makes this luxury Castle a very convenient location to explore the beauty of Southern Ireland. The castle is also just 800 metres from the village of Bansha, with its famous Nellie's Pub.
Bansha lies at the centre of the heritage trail; The Rock of Cashel, Holycross Abbey and the Medieval City of Kilkenny are all near by.
The nearby area is also ideal for outdoors activities such as Golf, Walking & Cycling, Fly fishing on the river Suir, Tennis and Horse Riding.
We absolutely loved our stay at the Castle. Teresa & John were so hospitable and helpful. We will return!
Liv
September 2020
"Superb" A beautiful house in a beautiful location. The accommodation was perfect and facilities for cooking excellent. The heated outdoor area was an added bonus, perfect for a breakfast overlooking the garden, and a wonderful treat for our tiny dancer. Lovely hosts. We hope to return soon
Shana Murphy
August 2020
"Amazing" Had the most amazing weekend in Bansha Castle. We were a group of 7 adults and 8 children, there was lots of space both inside and out. The house was very well equipped with everything we needed. Bedrooms were beautiful with very comfortable beds. The kids were all delighted to see rabbits outside and they were lucky enough to see some owls. The owners live onsite and are available if needed but do not intrude. Would definitely recommend and we are all looking forward to our next visit.
Ian M
August 2020
"Fabulous place to stay" We spent 3 night here recently with family a mixture of grandparents, kids, grandkids. The place is amazing.Rooms are spacious and comfortable the facilities excellent. The lads loved the snooker table.A beautiful enclosed garden out the back is very secure to let the kids run around ,they loved it.Great big BBQ to cook on and lovely sitting area for outdoor dining there is even heaters if it gets a bit chilli.We were self catering there was good big fridge for storing our food and great big oven made it very easy to cook for our large group.Any utensils,dishes etc needed are provided for.The bedrooms are spacious with very comfortable beds .The place is spotless clean.We enjoyed our stay here so much we were reluctant to go home and could definitely have stayed longer.Owners live on site and are immediately available should any problems arrive.I would highly recommend this place to stay and will be telling everyone about it.Theresa is lovely to deal with and so friendly and welcoming.We will definitely return in the future
Sorcha N
July 2020
"Wonderful Family Break" We have just returned from a wonderful family party in Bansha. This is a truly beautiful house, with fabulous bedrooms and very comfortable beds!
The pool table was a huge success with the children. In fact all the rooms were magnificent, with a wonderful sense of space and comfort.
The outdoor space is covered which was great for a misty Irish evening and allowed us to have a lovely bbq.
We all adored it and only wish that we could have stayed longer. There is no doubt that we will be back
david tUK
July - 2018
"So so good" It was a big birthday for my wife and I and also our 40th wedding anniversary. I spent many weeks researching into venues that would give us something special for our entire family, a group of 17 people. I talked to several venues by email enquiring about this but the response and help from Teresa stood out and it was an easy decision to book Bansha Castle for our celebration. It has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. Teresa was very easy to work with and gave good advice, we arranged in advance for sandwiches to be waiting for our arrival. Also arranged a cooked breakfast for us all one morning and then a really nice family dinner one evening. All the catering was so good and really well done with everyone in the family really delighted. The welcome to Bansha from both John and Teresa was warm and genuine. Lovely home made scones waiting and a really helpful tour of the castle. The castle is really good with lots of space and really good facilities, 17 of us and lots of space for everyone. Lovely terrace to sit out in the evening and to top it all off the weather was brilliant. So to end a really big thank you to John & Teresa for all their help for what was a really good family gathering.
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