There were 9 of us staying here, and overall, we were not happy with our stay. We met Máire when we first arrived because she was doing something with the trash, and she was very nice, but after that, things went downhill. As soon as we walked in, we saw that the downstairs toilet wouldn't flush. When I wrote to her about it, she wrote back and said that we just need to hold it down for awhile, but the handle was actually broken. Thankfully, someone came out the next morning to fix it. The place was pretty bare bones, so don't expect anything super special. We also ran out of toilet paper and there was none anywhere else in the apartment, so we had to buy some. None of these are major issues of course, but just our experience. I will say that the location was perfect.
What really made our stay here not so great, though, was the issues with parking. It wasn't until after we booked it that we were told the details of the free parking. We were told that it was two spots for two small cars, but the cars we rented apparently were not quite small enough. The spots reserved for renters here were really hard to park in, small or big car, so Máire told us we could park in the spots for the house next to us and that we should just let them know to park in the spots for this house. She said it would be fine. As it turned out, she also owns that house next door. The first night they parked in the Airbnb spots so we could park in their spots, but the second night, the neighbors knocked on our door at midnight telling us they won't park in our spots anymore because Máire threatened legal action against them if they did. We spent 2 hours with them trying to get in touch her so they could get word from her they they wouldn't get in trouble for it. At first they were nice enough, but then they started to get rude with us and were asking us to get involved. They kept knocking on our door and kept us up until 2am dealing with this. All of this was compounded by the fact that the street is tiny and it was nearly impossible to move the cars efficiently. Máire was not responsive to them so in turn, we got kept awake dealing with this. It's apparently ongoing turmoil between them and Máire but we got thrown in the middle of it. If we had know before that the parking spots were so tiny and impossible to maneuver, we wouldn't have booked our 3 night stay here. The issues between the neighbors and Máire really ruined this for us.