A piece of history

Pól O Conghaile savours Coopershill, a B&B that traces its origins to 1774

I LOVE arriving into a destination at night. From the brash lights of a big city to the glowing windows of a little B&B stashed away in the Irish countryside, there’s just something about the darkness that injects excitement, atmosphere and anticipation into an arrival.

And that’s exactly my first experience of Coopershill. A three-storey Georgian pile lurking in the wilds of County Sligo, I reach it via a long, rain-soaked country road, rattling over cattle grills, headlights illuminating the bejewelled eyes of deer in the venison farm alongside.