Hotel Reviews Ireland

CASTLE LESLIE ESTATE,

Glaslough,

Monaghan,

County Monaghan

Castle Leslie enquiries
Visit the Castle Leslie Monaghan website for details of the Hotel, Restaurant and Equestrian centre

Why Stay Here?

• Historic Castle, Contemporary Lodge, Victorian Spa, Cookery School and  Equestrian Centre.
• 1,000 acre estate, great walks and fascinating history.
• Unlike anywhere you have ever stayed before!

Over the past few years we have visited Castle Leslie Estate several times and each experience has been a great pleasure, with  our latest stay in February of this year leaving us more impressed than ever.  There really is just so much on offer at Castle Leslie Estate, and we have noticed with each visit that such careful attention to detail has positioned Castle Leslie Estate among our favourite accommodation choices in Ireland.
With personality in spades, this is as far from a bland hotel experience than you could possibly get.  The genuine luxury together with delightful staff bring the Castle Leslie experience to a whole new level in Irish hospitality.
Of course it is the family who make this place so very, very special, their linage goes back to Attila the Hun. In 1600 Bishop Leslie, fighting Cromwell, fell in love with a magical Irish lake and retired there. Charles Powell Leslie became Uncle to Wellington and old Sir John married New Yorker Leonie Jerome, Churchill’s Aunt .
There is an excellent book by Elizabeth Kehoe titled "Fortune's Daughters"  detailing the lives of the Jerome sisters, Jeannie churchill, Clara Frewen and Leonie Leslie which is a great read if you want to know more about this fascinating family history.
 

ACCOMMODATION AT CASTLE LESLIE ESTATE

There is a great range of accommodation choices at the Estate from the  29-roomed Lodge which we stayed in last year, to the recently refurbished heritage rooms in the Castle itself where we stayed this time.  There is also the option of self-catering in the Old Stable Mews or Village Cottages. Each of the Castle rooms is quite individual and we stayed in the lovely Chinese Room which was known to the family as the 'second best guest room' and was reserved for distinguished male guests!  Lots of red silk, Chinese figureens, lantern and rugs, Chaise Lounge, open fireplace, antique furniture, super-comfortable bed, big bay window and a secret passage at the back of the wardrobe! Now closed off for safety reasons, this secret passage used to be handy for visiting girlfriends and making hasty exists.  Now, if those walls could talk! 
The bathroom was a most unusual shape, apparently an unpopular bedroom in days gone by but since divided in two to make two unique bathrooms for the Chinese room and the Print Room respectively!  Whatever about it's history, we loved the stand-alone claw-foot bath, the scented candle and the box of Radox on the windowsill.