Knockranny House Hotel, Westport, Co Mayo. www.knockrannyhousehotel.ie
Foie gras terrine at Knockranny House Hotel
Today at 13:00
Northerners love westerners. This is evident in Donegal’s home ownership census. But your posher northerner prefers Mayo and Galway and, specifically, Westport. The Clew Bay capital is bijou and boutique, yet grounded and true thanks to the anchoring presence of Matt Molloy’s legendary bar.
I had travelled through Westport for years on my way to Achill Island where as a younger man I surfed clumsily along Keel beach. If you want to see Colm Doherty’s (Brendan Gleeson) house in Banshees of Inisherin you just go a little further to magical Keem Bay.