I recently had the pleasure of staying in Clonkill house.
It is a spacious, clean, and very comfortable home in beautiful countryside, while still being 10 mins drive to the town of Mullingar.
Mullingar itself has a good selection of bars and restaurants and grocery shops so I had everything I needed closeby.
I definitely intend to return with a group of friends.
We will use Clonkill house as a base for our vacation and take advantage of the airport transfers and Tour package service offered by Carmel for our group.
I feel that this will take the stress out of being the designated driver on the Irish roads which I happened to be this time around.