Rooms to Improve: Young sisters take on derelict hotel in West Cork

Sisters, 20s, are doing it for themselves at €450k hotel buy which has lain idle since before they were born. The Budget? €400,000 left to spend on phase one

The long-derelict Castlefreke Hotel was developed 60 years ago along with eleven chalets in adjacent sand dunes

A DERELICT West Cork seaside hotel has been bought by two young sisters who weren’t even born when the once-famed hotel closed its doors 30 years ago.

In new ownership is the former Castlefreke Hotel at Owenahincha, a 1960s 24-bed motel-design classic built by a German architect.