Set on the ground of an eighteenth century Irish Manor House, Croan Cottages are 5 recently built, traditional style cottages offering self catering accommodation in Kilkenny. These are available to to guests for full week, weekend or midweek breaks throughout the year. Croan Cottages are fully furnished to an exceptionally high standard and include three bedroom and two bedroom spacious detached holiday cottages. Each holiday home has an open fire, a private furnished patio and barbeque area. The cottages are set around a charming courtyard, surrounded by beautifully mature Lime trees, with a duck pond, boules court and games area close by. Visitors will appreciate the extreme comfort, relaxing nature and high end facilities Croan Cottages has to offer. Relax and enjoy splendid surroundings with Castle Morres demesne just next door, an impressive forest park of almost 2,000 acres, walled gardens and Orchards providing plenty of fresh produce for guests to enjoy during their stay. All of the cottages are designated as ‘No Smoking’. Smoking is permittted outside. Pets are permitted to stay with their owners in some of the cottages.
Croan Cottages Courses
Each year a small number of residential courses are run at Croan Cottages in Kilkenny.
These courses include:
• Residential Cookery Courses
• Foraging Courses
• Smallholding Courses
• Butchery Courses
• Beekeeping Courses
• Fly Fishing Courses
As well as delivering some of the courses themselves, they invite very special tutors to deliver the courses. Guest tutors have included:
• Steven Lamb from River Cottage
• Gill Mellor, Group Head Chef of River Cottage
• Tim Maddams, Wild Food expert & Former Head Chef at River Cottage
• John Wright, Natural History expert and River Cottage’s mushroom expert.
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