The investment meant the country house hotel, owned by the O’Neill family for 80 years, added 16 modern bedrooms at the property, bringing the total to 43. “About 75 per cent of our business was food and we had to diversify. So we had to diversify into bedrooms to strengthen the business,” says Michael O’Neill jnr. Listen | 27:41This later expanded into a hotel business and it has expanded at various junctures since then to its current size. Michael O'Neill jnr with his father, also Michael, at Fernhill House Hotel & Gardens in Clonakilty.

Source: The Irish Times March 30, 2026 06:00 UTC