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FEAKLE is to have its own hotel again after almost 10 years with the KOusNMnyeeh analy
A planning application has been lodged to build a €3 million hotel development as well as a retirement village and holiday homes on the site of the old hotel in the village.
The project will create six full-time and up to 30 part-time jobs in the area aS well as generating revenue for local organic suppliers, who will be providing for the restaurant. The development will be able to offer
conference and function facilities, a leisure centre, a café bar/restaurant facility and a maximum of 48 hotel rooms.
The new hotel is the brainchild of brother and sister team, Rory Smyth and Ann Moloney, together with their design team, Annalise Van Harden and Miles Samson.
‘“We’re very pleased with the design and the various uses of the develop- ment and we’re looking forward to getting going with the project,” said Rory Smyth.
SM alompccnencenonlMM SUI L- Rom oeBlO)ImmO)E the new development will allow over-
55s avail of cleaning and firelighting Services, meals in the hotel or deliv- ered to their door, and the use of a communal facilities and the leisure centre at the hotel.
The development will feature a 225sq m café bar/restaurant as well as a 300sq m function room/confer- ence facility and a number of smaller conference/syndicate rooms from 100sq m to 30sq m. The leisure facil- ity includes a gym with sauna, jacuz- Z1 and a number of treatment rooms.
There will be 10 bedroom suites in the main body of the hotel, and it is proposed to build nine holiday homes
attached to the hotel. Each will have four en-suite bedrooms which can be let as individual rooms, giving the hotel a total of 48 rooms.
Feakle native Fr Harry Bohan said, “The loss of the old hotel resulted in many events and functions not only being moved from the area, but in many instances being cancelled al- together. East Clare is recognised as one of the most scenic and unspoiled destinations in the country but it is also accepted as being seriously under-developed, so I welcome the news of the hotel and holiday village re-development.”