We had a wonderful stay in Jean's property in Dunfanaghy. We had two couples staying for a week, and we enjoyed the house and the location tremendously.
The house is just like is was in the pictures - clean, modern, well-specified. Fibre WIFI was perfect & flawless(with a Smart TV capable of logging in to Netflix). We stayed during some fine but cold weather in March, and the house was very warm and comfortable - perfect. It was spacious, with plenty of room for a family, but cosy enough for one or two couples to enjoy without feeling too large. There was two comfortable double rooms (both en-suite), which was perfect for us.
Being early season, we cooked in a bit with everything we needed to hand, and ate out locally a few times. In mi-season, there are plenty of restaurant and take away options. The Glen bar 20 mins away was expensive, but a real treat for a full Dinner with a Chapter One Chef in the kitchen!. Jean had plenty of recommendations backed up by good reviews online - we missed the Rusty Oven pizza's opening date by a week or so, but the sound of it may be enough to bring us back just to try them!
We travelled out each day to visit some of the fabulous beaches - Killahooley beach, Marble hill beach, Port Na Blagh harbour locally. If you are up for walking some distance cross-country across sand-dunes and a mini-adventure, the not-near-a-road Tramore beach is supposed to be lovely (we turned back after heading there for sunset & realising we had no torches for the way back!). Head out the road towards Horn head. Cross the bridge, and turn left into a forest car park immediately after the first house. Then follow the trail through the forest, across fields and sand dunes to the beach.
Ards Friary is well worth a visit - definitely do the walk along the foreshore through the trees, after a few minutes it opens up to a lovely beach area and around a headland with wonderful views into Sheephaven Bay. The Ards forest park a few minutes away has walks on the other side of the same headland, well worth the few euro parking fee.
Driving further, Magheraoarty beach worth a visit and of course Glenveigh National Park - drive down to Dunleewey church. For a nice photo of Errigal, drive down to the bridge crossing Dunlewey Lough (Dunlewey Kayaking on google maps) - walk around to get a good viewpoint with the Lough in the foreground.
There is so much to do in Donegal, there is plenty of spectacular scenery around the local area and withing 30-40 minutes drive.
Come back to house, kick your shoes off, pour a drink and put your feet up on the footstools in the lounge !
Many thanks for a great memorable stay!.
Aidan & Oonagh.