The four of us absolutely loved your beautiful Cillstifiann!We tried very hard to keep it as neat as possible.Your travel instructions wereperfect. No problems at all, also your recomendations for dining. Great!


One of the highlights of our trip was being able to spend some quality time with Tom Frawley. He is a treasure. Tending the same pub for
an astounding 77 years, and with only two days off per year!
Thank you so much for all of your help in making our visit to the 'Green Isle' so very special. We four made a blood pact to return to the same spot in two years hence.
From our stays in Scotland, England and many locations in the USA, this beautiful Cillstifiann rates at the very top! The views of the beach and cliffs are spectacular, the location provides very easy walking access to all of theLahinch shopping, dining, pubs..etc, and Cillstifiann is such a lovely home!
Harry Godfrey
Mississippi

(Hello Mary, My name is Ed Godfrey and I echo Harry's sentiments. On my first
day back at work I spent more time telling my co-workers about Cillstifiann
and the town of Lahinch than about the golf I played.)

We really enjoyed our stay at Cillstifiann. It was more beautiful than we ever imagined. You've done a phenomenal job on the house. I'm sure you already know its the talk of the town. As one Lahincher called it "The nicest house in Lahinch".
All was not perfect though, I am about 6 foot 2 and I must be about 3 inches shorter now from hitting my head on the way into the back room, the living room and the back hallway.
There is one other incident of note. Our son Tiernan learned to walk at Cillstifiann, that too is documented in pictures galore. The reading material was a real treat for me, the paperbacks about Clare history, the books on the Burren. I'm an overnight expert on turloughs, karst and grykes.

Phil Keane
Connecticut

What a wonderful trip we had.......the accommodations are superb! The weather cooperated for the most part. We just love Lahinch; the people are so warm and friendly and are very fond of you. The location is perfect....we took a couple day trips to Dingle Bay and Kilkee. I will scan some pictures and send them to you. I took a photo of your cousin's house (I met his wife). I also met Ann, your housekeeper. The folks at Kenny's send their best. I hope we can meet sometime in the future. Jim and I cannot imagine a more wonderful place to vacation. We thank you Mary, and we appreciate your phone calls.....you are very kind.
Our very best,

The McGraths
Maryland

I had such a wonderful time in Cillstiffian , you have made it into such a wonderful, comfortable, livable place. Thanks for sharing it. I hope you'll let me come back again. Cillstiffian and Lahinch and Clare seem even more peaceful and wonderful in view of what's transpired since we were there. Thank you again so much.

Mary Ann Nichols
Colorado

We would like to thank you for sharing your wonderful house with our family. We had a wonderful two weeks in Ireland and Lahinch was our favorite part. Everyone was so friendly and warm. We took a few of your suggestions and visited the numerous pubs including the likes of Galvin's, Kenny's, Mrs. O'Brien's and the 19th. I feel as though my wife spent my entire salary at Kenny's Woolen Mills and Sue's. The town was perfect. During our stay we did meet with my father's relatives from Galway. We visited the house where his grandfather grew up in Clombo, the church and his school. It was almost like that MasterCard commercial, a pint of Guinness $2 , a bowl of Guinness Irish Stew $ 5, spending time and seeing where your father's family grew up - priceless. Our relatives even came to Lahinch where we went pony trekking with our four year old and my cousin's children and took a swim at Seaworld and spent the rest of the day looking for periwinkles on the beach at low tide. Then all thirteen of us went to Kenny's pub for dinner. It really was lovely (as the true Irish would say). They loved Lahinch as well. Your house is absolutely lovely. We spent most of our nights there except for our trek to Dublin. We particularly enjoyed going to bed and hearing and seeing the waves hit the Lahinch beach from our bed. Our four year old insisted we keep the curtains open but it presented a problem in the morning when we got up to see a bunch of people on the promenade see us in our night clothes. It was fun. The surfers there are unbelievable, they would stay out there past 10:30pm on some nights due to the late sunsets.We definitely will be back and hopefully before you retire in your lovely Blue House by the Irish Sea.

The Hanley's
Delaware

I feel I know you well enough to call you by your first name even though we have never met personally. However, your presence was felt throughout these past two weeks while in your home in Lahinch so I hope you do not mind. Our vacation in Ireland turned out to be an experience I could not ever, even in my wildest dreams, have imagined. Touring Ireland again, after 13 years away brought back such wonderful memories, noticing many changes, having wonderful genealogy searching results and visiting places I had never experienced before. Lahinch was one of those places and Cillstifiann made it the perfect spot for experiencing Ireland again. We could not have found a more central spot to start our trips out from, and the house was so warm and comfortable. It was indeed ideal! The people, sights and the weather are as I had remembered and are all part of a memory I shall treasure. Barbara (BOJ) and I had communicated back and forth so often in planning the trip that after a while we started to question the rationality of making the decision on the house sight unseen: what would the area be like? the house? the town? would there be enough room for all six of us? would it work having all of us in the same house? etc. etc. etc. All of these doubts were erased when we pulled up and walked into the house on Saturday evening. We felt so at home there immediately. Meeting your sister Ruth when we were leaving on Saturday morning meant now putting a face and personality on the whole Cillstifiann experience and that was another real gift to the trip. My thanks to you for making this wonderful spot available to us.The general consensus of opinion when we were leaving was "we must return to Ireland again." Hopefully Cillstifiann will be a part of a return trip someday in the not too distant future.

Pat Ryan
New Jersey