After a stroll through the well-kept pleasure grounds, the sitting room, with a crackling wood fire, makes an ideal cosy gathering place for drinks before dinner.

The dining room windows catch the setting sun reflected in the river in the evenings. This room is filled with baronial oak furniture and a gallery of former knights including a number of notable eccentrics such as "the Knight of the Woman" and "the Big Knight".

Across the hall, the drawing room has an Adam period ceiling, a beautiful Bossi chimney-piece and six long windows which overlook the croquet lawn. After-dinner coffee and conversation frequently take place here.

Upstairs there are individual sets of bedrooms, bathrooms and dressingrooms. Wall-to-wall carpets are scattered with rugs, and chaises-longues stand at the end of comforting, plump, chintz-covered beds. Pictures and blue and white porcelain plates adorn the walls.

Superior and standard rooms are situated in either the old castle wing or on the third floor. There is no lift at Glin Castle. The bedrooms at the back of the castle overlook the garden, while those at the front have a view of the river.

Formal pleasure grounds surround the castle and magnolia campbelli and sophora tetraptera as well as camelias and drifts of daffodils make a splendid spring garden, while other magnificent trees and shrubs come into their own in the summer.