{"id":628954,"date":"2026-09-18T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628954\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:06:12","slug":"michelin-names-19-best-hotels-in-ireland-including-four-new-additions-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628954\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin names 19 best hotels in Ireland, including four new additions \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nineteen Irish hotels were awarded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michelin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/michelin\/\">Michelin<\/a> Keys in the 2026 selection announced on Friday, with two retaining the top Three Keys distinction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/adare-manor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/adare-manor\/\">Adare Manor<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/limerick\/\">Co Limerick<\/a> and Ballyfin Demesne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/laois\/\">Co Laois<\/a>, retained their Three Keys status. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Michelin\u2019s hotel ratings, similar to Michelin stars for restaurants, rank this honour as the \u201cbest of the best\u201d, with only 11 hotels holding the rank in Ireland and the UK. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The four new Irish entries, all in the One Key section, are the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin; The Leinster Hotel in Dublin; Glenlo Abbey in Galway City; and Marlfield House in Gorey, Co Wexford. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Irish hotels that retained their One Key status included Gregans Castle Hotel, Co Clare; Castlemartyr Resort, Co Cork; Dylan Hotel, Dublin; Wilder Townhouse, Dublin; The Killarney Park, Co Kerry; The Victoria, Killarney, Co Kerry; No 1 Pery Square, Co Limerick; and Dromoland Castle, Co Clare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Two Key hotels are: Cashel Palace, Co Tipperary; Ashford Castle, Cong, Co Mayo; Park Hotel Kenmare, Co Kerry; Sheen Falls Lodge, Kenmare, Co Kerry; and the Merrion in Dublin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A key can be awarded to a hotel that does not have a Michelin-starred restaurant. However, many of the hotels in the global listing do include such a restaurant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Michelin Guide Hotel Selection includes 9,000 hotels in more than 100 countries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Three Keys <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Adare Manor, Co Limerick <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ballyfin Demesne, Co Laois <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two Keys<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cashel Palace, Co Tipperary<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ashford Castle, Cong, Co Mayo<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Park Hotel Kenmare, Co Kerry<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sheen Falls Lodge, Kenmare, Co Kerry<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Merrion, Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">One Key<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Gregans Castle Hotel, Co Clare<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Castlemartyr Resort, Co Cork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dylan Hotel, Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Wilder Townhouse, Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Killarney Park, Co Kerry<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Victoria, Killarney, Co Kerry<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">No 1 Pery Square, Co Limerick<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dromoland Castle, Co Clare<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Fitzwilliam Hotel, Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Leinster Hotel, Dublin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Glenlo Abbey, Galway City<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Marlfield House, Gorey, Co Wexford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nineteen Irish hotels were awarded Michelin Keys in the 2026 selection announced on Friday, with two retaining the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32862,3115,93,61,60,46885],"class_list":["post-628954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adare-manor","tag-ballyfin-demesne","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-michelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}