Ballyconnell B&B accommodation
| country: | Ireland |
| location: | Brackley Lake near Ballyconnell in Co. Cavan |
| price: | From €70 per room per night (sleeps two/three) |
description
Our B&B beside Brackley Lake enjoys panoramic views and half mile of private foreshore. We cater for just ten guests and offer the personal attention not available in large hotels. Recently awarded the EU Eco Label for Accommodation, we encourage guests to participate and comment on our environmental practises.
Fishing for bream or pike is renowned on this lake; we provide boats, jetties, bait and tackle store for guests’ use. While our commitment to sourcing only local and organic ingredients makes for a delicious selection of breakfast options, we regret the fishing policy is strictly catch and release, not poached or fried!
Explore the Cuilcagh Mountains and Marble Arch Caves. Walking /cycling guides available. Four golf courses, horse-riding and mountain biking. On-site too, from this July, are Laser clay pigeon shooting, mud buggy races and hovercrafting. We will be donating funds to an environmental voluntary offset scheme to neutralise the effect of CO2 emissions from the buggy engines.
Enniskillen has great wet-days shopping, swimming, cinema, more shopping, museum, castle... Look out for good farmers markets, crafts markets and car boot sales and visit The Organic Centre in Rossinver for seeds, books, etc. Restaurants to suit all budgets and pubs offering live music or conversation. In pubs it helps if you understand the rules of Gaelic Football, as otherwise someone will want to explain them. Also expect your Guinness to ‘settle’, and don’t be concerned if invited to have the craic!
Fishing for bream or pike is renowned on this lake; we provide boats, jetties, bait and tackle store for guests’ use. While our commitment to sourcing only local and organic ingredients makes for a delicious selection of breakfast options, we regret the fishing policy is strictly catch and release, not poached or fried!
Explore the Cuilcagh Mountains and Marble Arch Caves. Walking /cycling guides available. Four golf courses, horse-riding and mountain biking. On-site too, from this July, are Laser clay pigeon shooting, mud buggy races and hovercrafting. We will be donating funds to an environmental voluntary offset scheme to neutralise the effect of CO2 emissions from the buggy engines.
Enniskillen has great wet-days shopping, swimming, cinema, more shopping, museum, castle... Look out for good farmers markets, crafts markets and car boot sales and visit The Organic Centre in Rossinver for seeds, books, etc. Restaurants to suit all budgets and pubs offering live music or conversation. In pubs it helps if you understand the rules of Gaelic Football, as otherwise someone will want to explain them. Also expect your Guinness to ‘settle’, and don’t be concerned if invited to have the craic!
rooms, food and facilities
Disabled access: Our house has disabled access and downstairs guest rooms. We can provide a toilet frame and shower seat if needed.
Family Friendly: We love kids, and they are very welcome. We have DVDs and board games, and two friendly dogs and a huge garden and a quiet lane with no traffic. But, we have a large duck pond and are beside a lake, so we would insist on the children being accompanied at all times for their safety. Babysitting can sometimes be arranged. Children under 5 no charge, 5-12 with 30% reduction if sharing parents room.
Baby friendly: We love babies too but are not equipped for them, as we have found most mums prefer to bring their own cots etc. We regret we have no en suite baths, only showers. This may not suit longer stay families with babies.
Biking accommodation: We work in partnership with our neighbours Wildflower Cycling as their accommodation provider of choice, offering stress-busting escorted cycling weekend breaks with two nights B&B, one evening meal, and transfers to a local hostelry for the evening. Our location is beside the Kingfisher Cycle Trail, which traverses around the lake counties of Cavan, Leitrim and Fermanagh. Wildflower offer cycle hire, so this would be the ideal first night and last night stop for a cycling holiday. We can suggest routes suited to your party's abilities. New loops are being added to the trail this year. Guests can also avail of a bike for a day, subject to availability.
Walking accommodation: The 665m high Cuilcagh Mountains are shared between the two lake-strewn counties of Fermanagh and Cavan and offer a superb range of circular walks. Under the title of Landscapes from Stone, a pack of ten laminated route guides have been produced in partnership by the Geological Surveys of Ireland and Northern Ireland and relevant land owners. These include ancient routes like the Ulster Way, vary from 1 -17 km in length, and are graded as to difficulty. We provide guests with their own copy on loan, and are happy to provide a lift to any of the starting points, and collection home again at a given time. Packed lunches can also be provided with a bit of notice.
special things to do and see here
how to find us
Nearest Airport Dublin or Belfast International (both 100 miles).From Dublin Airport: N3 route as far as Belturbet where a large roundabout is at end of town. Take 1st left for Ballyconnell.
From Belfast Int. Airport: get on M1 (West) follow signs for Enniskillen. At Enniskillen follow signs for Sligo all the way through the town and over the island bridge where you take a left onto the Sligo Road out of town. Stay on this road for about three-four miles . Take left, marked Florence court and Swanlinbar. At Swanlinbar drive straight through, following signs for Ballyconnell/Cavan.
how this holiday makes a difference
 Our small bed and breakfast has become one of the first in Ireland to attain an EU Eco Label for Accommodation Providers, guaranteeing you our commitment and positive actions to reduce, reuse and recycle. It also means our home is using renewable energy, runs efficiently, monitors its consumption, and gardens organically. You will be offered fresh, local and organic or Fair Trade breakfasts as standard, having slept on sheets laundered with biodegradable detergents in rooms cleaned with non chemical or biodegradable cleaners. We will ask you to participate in our environmental policies such as energy and water saving measures, recycling, and safe disposal of your litter. The unspoilt and undiscovered natural beauty of the Cuilcagh Mountains in Ireland’s North West (parts of Counties Cavan, Fermanagh, Leitrim and Sligo) has recently been linked together to create a new, sustainable tourism region named The Green Box, and we are proud to be members. Visitors to the region will be actively supporting a cross border project which aims to restore the natural hinterlands of these counties to one another, and to economically assist the region’s employment in an extremely rural environment, even by Irish standards! By staying, visiting our attractions, eating in local restaurants and supporting local businesses you can ensure that tourism becomes a major industry in the area, and can therefore influence local and national policies with regard protecting the environment you, our visitors come to enjoy. |
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