The Woodenbridge Hotel & Lodge makes the Fab 50 best places to stay in Ireland this year

Brothers Mark and Joseph Scott-Lennon at Woodenbridge Hotel. Photo: Julien Behal

There’s been a coaching inn and hotel overlooking the River Aughrim in the Vale of Avoca for more than four centuries.

Check-ins have included Daniel O’Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell and Eamon de Valera — who stayed for a single night on honeymoon with his wife.