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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Road map B6. Bantry, Co Cork.
Tel 027 50047.
∑ bantryhouse.com
Open Apr–Oct: 10am–5pm daily.
Closed 25 Dec. & 7 limited.
- = Concerts: monthly & 2
summer music festivals.
Tel 027 52788.
Entrance hall . Rose Drawing Room ∑ westcorkmusic.ie.
The rose-coloured tapestries (c.1770) See also Hotels p298.
hanging in this room are thought to have Transport
been made for Marie Antoinette on her @ from Cork to Bantry daily.
marriage to the Dauphin of France.

South
façade

. View of House and Bantry Bay
Bantry House enjoys a magnificent
location overlooking Bantry Bay. This lovely
view, from the terraces above the house,
shows the harbour with Whiddy Island
and the Caha Mountains beyond.

. Blue Dining Room
This room is dominated by
portraits of King George III Italian Garden
and Queen Charlotte by Inspired by the Boboli Gardens in
court painter Allan Ramsay. Florence, this garden encircles a
The Spanish chandelier is pool decorated in Classical
decorated with Meissen Grotesque style. It was designed in
china flowers. the early 1850s by the 2nd Earl.

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