Overall, it was good. The house was beautiful and very spacious, also very quiet. But it's rather far from Galway or from Barna and Furbo (the two closest towns) for that matter. There are buses but there's only one every hour. I wish it was better connected.
I stayed here for about 5 weeks. The room was spacious and nice, no complaints there. I also had enough space in the cupboards and the fridge in the kitchen - but no freezer space, which was a bummer. There's a microwave, a toaster, plus the oven and the stove so basically everything you can possibly need to cook. There's a dishwasher as well but Claire is the one who uses it, in the sense that she's the one who decides when it's filled up enough and when to start it up (also you can't put pans and pots in it, only plates and cutlery). There's also a washing machine, but no dryer (and since in Ireland it rains a lot, no dryer is a bit of a problem). Also, Claire allows you to use only one program (you can't wash higher than 30 degrees, which is also a bummer). There's wi-fi but it doesn't work well in the kitchen and dining room (but it does work well in the bedroom). Also, there's no TV (I didn't care much about it but some people might).
Another thing that might bother some people: there are no keys in the bedroom. You can't lock your room when you go out and that's a bit meh as well. Also, you don't have your own pair of keys for the house but you have to leave the only pair behind a pot in front of the house after you go out (but if there's more than one guest, then the last one who goes out closes the door). I don't particularly care for this method. Claire said that it happened before that guests would lose their keys but I still didn't like not having my own pair. The house and the neighborhood is safe so no worries there but still, it's annoying.
The hot water is on timer, so you need to decide at what time during the day you want to have a shower and set it that way. It's not such a bad thing once you get used to it, but that means that when you have to wash dishes, you have to do it with cold water.
Claire has many rules, and it gets a bit tiring to figure out what these rules are, especially because you think you have all them figure out and then you find out there's another one. She expects you to clean your room and the bathroom (which is fine), and also the corridor, the dining room and the kitchen, if you stay there for a long stay (once a month at least, but she would prefer more). I don't really agree with the last part, to be honest but whatever. She also expects you to clean the fridge (the parts you used) once a month (also, another thing I don't really agree on). I was there for an intensive course, I wasn't really there to clean, but whatever.
Sharing the house with your host is always a bit annoying, no matter how nice the host is and the more time you stay in a place, and the more annoying it becomes. Claire is not one that hovers, but it's still her house so you don't really feel like the place is yours. Having lived alone in a house on rent, the feeling is different.
Also, the house is cold. I stayed in May-June, but I come from Italy so I'm not used to the weather; the temperatures were 13-14 degrees, which is basically Autumn in Italy. Very cold with no heater of any kind because they consume too much.
The value is good, if you compare it with the prices in Galway, which are extremely high. Overall, I would recommend it but more for a short stay than a long stay.