hotel
Lost Cottage
County Kerry, Ireland
For 40 years this tumbledown cottage was home to nothing more
than tufts of overgrown grass and a herd of mountain goats seeking
refuge from the harsh Irish winter. That is until a local family
rescued the ruins, gave the goats their packing orders (don’t
worry, they’re still grazing on the mountain) and polished the
red-roofed pad into somewhere we’d happily hunker down. Its timber
cladding was foraged from the nearby forest, the mud floor stripped
back and lime rendered while the concrete colour-matched to the
wild Treangarriv landscape. We can’t promise it won’t rain but,
when the clouds clear, Lost Cottage really does feel like the pot
of gold at the end of the wild County Kerry’s rainbow.
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