Kinnitty Castle Hotel

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Kinnitty Castle or Castle Bernard is a 19th-century gothic revival castle in Kinnitty (Cionn Eitigh), County Offaly, Ireland.
Detached Tudor style four-bay two-storey over basement with attic storey former country house, built c.1833, with octagonal castellated three-stage corner tower to south-west and projecting entrance porch. Incorporating earlier castle. Burnt in July 1922 and subsequently rebuilt. The tenth-century high cross to the front site of the castle contributes an archaeological significance to the site.

The Bernard family lived there until 1946, when it was sold to Lord Decies who in turn sold it to the state in 1951. From 1955 to 1985, the building hosted a Forestry Training College. It was then purchased in 1994 by the Ryan family of Luimneach, who developed it into a 37 bedroom, 4 star hotel and wedding venue.The castle was seized by the KBC Bank in 2008 and is now the subject of High Court action between the Ryan family and the KBC.
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Kinnitty Castle is home to a friendly (and very communicative) phantom monk, who's been seen
numerous times by staff and guests alike.
It has been visited by paranormal investigators from Living TV's Most Haunted in its fifth season.

The tenth-century high cross to the front site of the castle contributes an archaeological significance to the site.