If you travel to Andrew`s place it feels like your reach the end of the world. And then you find this little gem hidden in Tipperary County. Andrew is the perfect host: Polite, courteous, helpful and good for a chat. He has a lovely dog, too, and chicken in the garden from which you might get eggs if you are lucky. The cottage almost looks exactly like on the pictures. The only thing you can`t see is that the bed is actually in the same room as is the kitchen and the dining area. We liked this a lot because it made the room even more cozy. On cloudy winter days there is little daylight coming in but this doesn`t matter because the room is well lit and there are candles all around (it`s an incredibly romantic place anyway;)). In the guest book we read that people came here for a honeymoon and we sympathized a lot with this idea as we, too, would consider this to be the perfect honeymoon place! The room is perfectly equipped with almost everything. You might want to bring a hair dryer though. I know this sounds very picky but we also brought along our own espresso can as we prefer decent coffee over instant powder. Apart from these two minor things everything was much better than expected! The mattress especially is a god`s gift: It`s quite hard and we slept very well on it! At night - if there is no storm or thunder - it is very quiet and peaceful. You won`t hear anything. For sensitive ears the flush of the toilet (or actually the refilling of the latrine) might be bothersome if you have to use it at night - just don`t flush it then if your partner shouldn`t wake up ;). The whole equipment of the cottage looked quite new and there is absolutely nothing to complain about it. We found it very clean. If temperatures drop at night (we were there in December/January) and the wood of the oven is burned down there is an additional electric heater which comes in handy. Moreover, Andrew provided us with a lot of information and there are plenty of things to do just around the cottage which can easily be done on half-day trips.
All in all we would highly recommend this place (we even stayed longer than intended) and we will definitely try to come back some day!