The Eccles Hotel Glengarriff In West Cork Is Sold

CBRE Hotels has confirmed the sale of the Eccles Hotel Glengarriff in West Cork. Regarded as one of the best-known hotels on the Wild Atlantic Way, the long established business was acquired by a US hospitality investor Brian Patrick Martin. The hotel was previously offered for sale with a guide price of €4 million.

The sale presented an opportunity to acquire one of the oldest hotels in Ireland, operating since 1745. The hotel is conveniently located in West Cork, approximately 90km from Cork city and close to Kenmare in Co Kerry.

Famous people who have stayed at the Eccles Hotel in times gone by include George Bernard Shaw stayed in 1910/11 and is reputed to have written extensively during his time here. Also, during the 1920’s William Butler Yeats was a regular visitor to the Eccles Hotel.

More recently in July 2017 Pippa Middleton, sister of the Duchess of Cambridge, stayed at the hotel to attend the wedding of her good friend Camilla Campion-Awwad in Glengarriff.

‘Ideally Located’

“The sale of the Eccles Hotel presented a superb opportunity to acquire one of Irelands oldest hotels located in popular West Cork and is ideally located on the increasingly popular Wild Atlantic Way tourist route,” said John Hughes, director CBRE Hotels.

“The hotel has been sympathetically refurbished to create a hotel of character and offers the new owners the ability to further grow this long established business.”

Eccles Hotel & Spa Hotel comprises 59 refurbished bedrooms and suites, conference and banqueting facilities and a spa with three treatment rooms. The hotel also includes a restaurant, a bar and wedding facilities. A significant program of refurbishment and investment had been recently undertaken in all bedrooms and new bathrooms throughout.