Staying at the Stone Cottage at Kilcannon is a world away from a "corporate" hotel experience. The house is very atmospheric due to its age and location. It is surrounded by peaceful green fields grazed by cattle and there are fowl rambling around the farmyard. Depending on your point of view the latter can be a drawback as the roosters start announcing the start of the day around 5AM.! The bird song in the surrounding trees is wonderful.
The cottage interior is small and probably better suited to one person/a couple/ two people who know each other very well. The kitchen is tiny but very well equipped and the space is well thought out. One small point to note is that the fridge doesn't have an ice box.
A wood burning stove and two reclining armchairs make the living room area cosy though it is a little dark since the cottage, as befitting a building of its age, has small windows.
The bedroom and bathroom upstairs have lots of thoughtful touches, particularly the cotton sheets and layered blankets instead of the "standard issue" smothering duvet. There is an excellent clothes hanging area under the eaves and even an ironing area!
If the weather is kind, there are several outdoor table-and-chair sets to take advantage of sun traps at different times of the day.
Gertie could give lessons in how to greet guests and make them comfortable not to mention the hospitable apple-and-rhubarb tart which awaited us while Pat acts as the unseen "stoker" who clears out the stove and sets it all ready for lighting!
Overall this is an excellent, one-of-a-kind airbnb!