Mary and Alan's place is what you always hope to find when you book on-line. It is located just off a main road so you don't have to engineer your way down a narrow lane, but is well protected from the sounds of traffic by a high wall and the fact that the rooms face into their magnificent garden.
Everything you could want was provided and then there were Mary's freshly baked scones and bread and the homemade jam and marmalade. There are Connemara ponies in the stone encircled fields along the lane leading down to a rocky beach and a real feeling of isolation although you're minutes from a couple pubs and a short ride from groceries.
Mary and Alan are wonderfully welcoming and couldn't be better hosts. The Internet connection is a bit sketchy but they are fine with visitors accessing it at the table in their light-filled dining room.
Their garden is a showpiece with flowers of every sort, vegetables and fruit and they are happy to share. We'd love to come back.