
Castledermot, Ireland
Kilkea Castle
One of Ireland's oldest inhabited castles, Kilkea in County Kildare has stood in some form since the twelfth century and now operates as a 140-room hotel set across a demesne of formal grounds and parkland. The scale places it in a different tier from Ireland's smaller castle retreats, trading intimacy for architectural breadth and a sense of living history that few properties of any size can match.




