The Lansdowne Kenmare is a Georgian townhouse hotel on Main Street in Kenmare, Co. Kerry, with 28 bedrooms. It hosts meetings, conferences and private gatherings, and weddings of 40 to 52 guests in the Poet's Lounge. Larger celebrations can take the whole hotel on an exclusive-use basis.
Seminars and company events
The hotel offers dedicated event spaces for meetings, conferences and private gatherings. Rooms can be set for formal presentations, boardroom meetings, collaborative workshops or social banquets. The meeting rooms are described as fully equipped, with flexible capacity options. The team manages room set-up, seating style, catering and refreshments, and break and lunch choices are planned around the agenda.
The site does not publish a capacity or a room name for the meeting spaces. A planner should send the number of delegates, the layout wanted and the dates, and ask the hotel for the matching room. A brochure for meetings is available for download on the meetings page.
Weddings and receptions
Intimate weddings of 40 to 52 guests are held in the Poet's Lounge, a newly renovated room. For larger celebrations, the hotel offers exclusive-use weddings, where the couple and their guests have the whole hotel to themselves. The Georgian rooms host the reception. The lobby has open fires, crystal chandeliers, handcrafted parquet flooring and art by Honora O'Neill.
A dedicated team assists with planning every part of the day, and a wedding brochure can be downloaded from the weddings page.
Rooms and capacities
The Poet's Lounge is the one room with a stated capacity: 40 to 52 guests for a wedding. The Georgian rooms are used for receptions in exclusive-use bookings, but the site gives no number for them. The hotel has 2 floors and 28 rooms in total, so an exclusive-use event is sized by the bedrooms available to guests.
Accommodation
The 28 bedrooms are described as individually designed. The site names the Bowood and Dereen Suites as examples of the larger rooms. Guests staying on site can therefore sleep in the same building as the event, which matters for a wedding or a residential team meeting.
Catering
The hotel runs two restaurants, Shelburne Street Restaurant and The Nead, and the Poet's Bar for cocktails. Afternoon tea is served, and the heated terrace is available for drinks. For events, the team plans menus, breaks and lunches with the organizer.
History and setting
The building went up in 1790 as the town residence of William Petty Fitzmaurice, the 2nd Earl of Shelburne. It is one of the oldest landmarks in Kenmare. The Hanley family runs it today. Kenmare sits on the Ring of Kerry, and the hotel is in the center of the town, within walking distance of shops and restaurants.
Getting there
The hotel is at Main Street, Kenmare, V93 YRC8. The site gives no transport details, so ask the hotel about parking and the best approach for coaches and guests arriving from Kerry Airport or Cork.
