Unforgettable glamping near Galway

Rental description

Experience a holiday full of outdoor activity at a glamping cabin in west Ireland. Esther and her team have the perfect set up for you.

The glamping cabin is an A frame with a double bed in the loft and living area with a wet bathroom below. Surrounded by trees and birdsong, you can feel that you are immersed in nature while only sleeping a stone’s throw from the comfort of the Eco House.

For those that prefer an even more off the grid experience, the Playground Hut is a quaint one room timber chalet with a double bed and table. The hut has the option of a single bunk bed above the double. There is electricity and campers toilet, shower and cooking facilities are only steps away. The Orchard tipi is glamping at it’s finest with a double bed and candlelight among the apple trees. Again shared camper facilities are right at hand.

Esther and Merel also offer modern eco-guestrooms.

Sustainability criteria

The site’s main building, the Eco House, is finished to the highest energy efficient standards, with eco-foam insulation, low energy lighting and low flow toilets, showers and sinks. Wastewater is treated on site in a natural puraflo peat moss treatment system. Guests will find re-useable drinking bottles in their room, souvenirs to take home to discourage plastic water bottle use.

The restaurant is one of only 2 in all of Ireland to have earned organic certification. Two acres of ground is also certified organic garden – all of the harvest is used in the restaurant. From April to October, every Friday night is pizza night, where the clay oven is fired up and guests make their own delicious organic pizza. Afterwards, homemade breads are baked in the oven, and most weddings feature whole organic salmon baked in the clay oven. And Nothing goes to waste here, with food scraps contributing to Eileen the pot bellied pigs diet or the compost heap, where horse manure is mixed in to fertilise the grazing fields and gardens. Broken tiles become artistic mosaic tables, fabric scraps are sewn together and filled to make draft blocks for doors, old furniture is lovingly restored.

Rainwater is harvested for use in the garden and stables and laundry done on site is air dried. The centre believes in a chemical free environment and therefore provides Irish organic toiletries for guests and only uses eco-friendly cleaning products. No chemicals are used on the land.
The centre is proud to support CELT (the Centre for Environmental Living and Teaching). This organization holds 2 weekends of traditional skills workshops each year hosted by the centre.