(Written by my husband)
We stayed in four places on our recent visit to Ireland and Scotland, and everyone agreed this was our favorite. My in-laws, in particular, loved it, and even chose to hang out at the cottage over joining the rest of us on one of our day trips, and enjoyed walking up and down the almost private road out front, and relaxing in the living room. Charming, historic place with modern updates, and the owner was amazingly hospitable, responding promptly when we had questions or issues (for instance, the power went out in the entire area at 10pm, and she immediately responded with information on the outage and even brought us candles). She brought extra blankets for those in our party not used to temperatures below 70 degrees at night, and baked us a cake when we arrived and brought us home-made brown soda bread later in the week (the best bread I had in either Ireland or Scotland). She also had peat logs (and real logs) for the wood burning stove, which we loved the smell of. All of her restaurant and shopping recommendations were spot on as well.
The lagoon with waterfalls across the street was awesome, and the beautiful Aasleagh Falls were right down the road on the way to town. The fjord was great, and we really enjoyed the two hour boat cruise we took on it. The location was also about 30-45 minutes from the Quiet Man village (which we enjoyed the walking tour of), as well as Croagh Patrick and the Westport. Sheep were on all the hillsides and even on the road out front, and it just totally felt like we were living in Old Ireland farm country.
The only negative was that while the listing does warn that the wifi is poor, that is almost an understatement. Wifi connectivity was nearly non-existent, and even a regular data signal was challenging for most of our group, much of the time. So if you absolutely have to have a good, strong, regular internet connection, this may not be the place for you. Usually, we are totally in that category, but the charm of the location and the feel of living in the past made up for the lack of signal. We did watch the Oscar winning movie "The Field" on dvd one night, which was filmed right in the town adjacent to this cottage and the Aasleagh Falls, which our hostess had recommended to us in her dvd collection.
We would totally recommend staying here again to anyone that wanted a place away from it all (but not too far away…) in the countryside of Ireland.