Located in the heart of the Moy Valley and just 7km south of the town of Ballina in Co Mayo<\/a>, Mount Falcon comprises 32 guest bedrooms in the principal Manor House along with 45 guest lodges distributed across three settings \u2013 The Woodlands, The Courtyard, and the Lakeside \u2013 within the wider estate. <\/p>\n The hotel owns 17 of these lodges and, together with some of the lodges they lease, there is additional accommodation for a further 118 guests.<\/p>\n The Manor House, or Hollywood House as it was known originally, was designed in 1872 by James Franklin Fuller, the architect of Ashford Castle, Kylemore Abbey and Farmleigh House, and was completed in 1876. Acquired for a reported \u20ac3.5 million in 2002 by Workhuman chairman and former Esat Digiphone chief executive Barry Maloney and his brothers Alan and Mike, the property and its estate underwent a multimillion-euro restoration over three years and opened for business as a luxury country-house hotel in 2006. <\/p>\n A member of Original Irish Hotels and recognised among Best Loved Hotels, Mount Falcon hosted the likes of film stars Vivien Leigh and Peter Sellers during their Hollywood heyday. In more recent years, the hotel has been visited by US president Joe Biden<\/a>, golfers Tiger Woods<\/a> and Nick Faldo, and actors Bill Murray<\/a>, Jon Hamm, Emily Blunt<\/a> and Jamie Dornan<\/a>. <\/p>\n Mount Falcon\u2019s guest accommodation is complemented by the award-winning \u2018The Kitchen\u2019 Restaurant, The Boathole Bar, a 17m indoor pool, the Elemis spa and a range of conference and banqueting facilities including the Fuller Room, which has capacity for up to 200 guests.<\/p>\n Arguably, the Mount Falcon Estate\u2019s greatest selling point is its 3.2km of double-bank salmon fishing on the adjoining River Moy. The river records approximately 9,000 rod-caught salmon annually, with the Mount Falcon fishery carrying a 10-year average of about 350 fish each season. The fishery, which is available exclusively to the hotel\u2019s guests, is divided into 10 beats and is managed by a resident fishery manager and dedicated gillies.<\/p>\n Mount Falcon offers a range of other activities including falconry, clay-pigeon shooting, archery, a nine-bay golf driving range and 3km of woodland trails. The estate sits within an hour\u2019s drive of 12 golf courses including Enniscrone, Carne Belmullet, Rosses Point and Strandhill.<\/p>\n Susan Joyce of CBRE\u2019s hotels division says: \u201cTruly complete estate assets of the calibre of Mount Falcon are rare in the Irish hospitality investment market. <\/p>\n \u201cThe estate\u2019s freehold tenure and its considerable development potential \u2013 including scope for additional bedrooms, further lodges and enlarged banqueting facilities, subject to planning consent \u2013 represent compelling upside for the incoming purchaser. <\/p>\n \u201cThe estate\u2019s salmon fishery alone is unrivalled in the Irish hotel market, and its setting on the Wild Atlantic Way make this an offering that will attract serious interest from both domestic and international investors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A range of Irish and international hotel operators and investors are expected to express their interest in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[244898,79,62843,18,244899,2154,19,17,2354,14195,244900],"class_list":["post-575010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-barry-maloney","tag-business","tag-cbre","tag-eire","tag-esat","tag-hotel","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mayo","tag-wild-atlantic-way","tag-workhuman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ON7TTFE4XBEGHFWOAUQEYO4XL4.jpg\")
An aerial view of the Mount Falcon Estate in Co Mayo <\/p>\n