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Staying at Ballyfin Demesne is like playing house in a museum. In this Regency mansion in Ireland’s Midlands, guests can warm themselves by Carrara marble fireplaces and comb through a library of ...

It was restored with style, precision, historic integrity and great vision: US businessman Fred Krehbiel and his wife Kay, ...

Generations of Cootes silently keep watch over Ballyfin’s stately Stair Hall. After a 90-year absence, the antique portraits were returned to their ancestral home, now resurrected as a lavish boutique ...

Historic hotel set at the foot of the Slieve Bloom Mountains in the centre of Ireland - 12 km from Mountrath Golf Club. One of a small handful of refined Relais & Chateaux affiliates in the country, ...

Arriving up the driveway to Ballyfin to check in, five smartly dressed staff were waiting outside the enormous stately home to greet us, like they do with all guests. Immediately I regretted the state ...

Condé Nast Traveler announced in their current issue the results of its 29th annual Readers’ Choice Awards with Ballyfin receiving top honors as the “Best Hotel in the World” with the highest overall ...

Michelin is not slowing down on its road to expansion beyond restaurants. Last autumn, the century-old guide announced that it would be bestowing keys — the lodging equivalent of dining stars — to ...

During Fred Krehbiel‘s three decades running the international operations of Lisle-based Molex Inc., the electrical components business founded by his grandfather, he slept in hotels nine months out ...

Ballyfin, County Laois, Ireland (side view of conservatory). Designed by the renowned Irish architects Sir Richard Morrison and his son William Vitruvius, it was subject to one of the most extensive ...

One of the most exclusive hotels in the State, Ballyfin in Co Laois, returned to profit last year as revenues increased more than threefold. New accounts show that Ballyfin Demesne Ltd recorded a ...

Pre-tax losses at one of the most exclusive hotels in the country, Ballyfin Demesne in Co Laois, increased more than fourfold to €389,281 in 2024.