Sisters restoring an abandoned West Cork hotel are fired up to serve pizza by April 

As part of the first phase redevelopment of the 1960s Castlefreke Hotel, steps to a former outdoor sunken swimming pool will provide quirky pizzeria seating 

The former Castlefreke Hotel at Owenahincha, West Cork which is currently undergoing renovation. Picture: Dan Linehan

SIXTY years after it first opened and thirty years after it closed, the long abandoned beach hotel at Castlefreke in West Cork is set to open its doors to the public again in April.

As the first stage of redevelopment, it’s going to have a café called 1964 (after the date the hotel first opened) and a pizzeria called Swim Club, which as an unusual feature will include sunken seating in the former outdoor swimming pool.