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The Twelve Hotel
Barna, County Galway, Ireland · Independent · Near Luxury
The Twelve sits on the Bearna crossroads where the Twelve Pins, a bar and restaurant named for the Twelve Bens, was demolished in 2005. The hotel that replaced it opened in the spring of 2007. Fergus O'Halloran runs forty-seven rooms, about half of them suites. The Pins is still the bar the village uses. West is the dining room. A Voya seaweed bath can be drawn in the room, and the shore is a two-hundred-metre walk.
- 47 rooms
- Opened 2007
About The Twelve Hotel
- Georgina Campbell named The Twelve Ireland's Pet Friendly Hotel of the Year in 2021, and the rooms are set up for guests who bring dogs.
- Pizza Dozzina, the hotel's pizzeria, takes its name from the Italian for a dozen and sits beside the bakery on Barna's main street.
- A Connacht Tribune report put the hotel and bar at €18 million. The owners spent a year on the rooms before the spring 2007 opening.
History
An older bar and restaurant called the Twelve Pins stood on this Bearna crossroads. The hotel says it dated to the 1940s and was named for the Twelve Bens, the Connemara range also called the Twelve Pins. It was demolished in 2005. The Twelve Hotel opened in the spring of 2007. Fergus O'Halloran is the managing director. The house counts 47 rooms, about half of them suites.
The setting
Barna crossroads, Bearna, County Galway, about 7 km and a fifteen-minute drive from Galway city, at the start of the road toward Connemara. The shore is about 200 metres from the door.
Restaurants and bars
- Blackthorn Restaurant — Restaurant
- The Pins — Restaurant · Gastropub
Awards
- Ireland's Pet Friendly Hotel of the Year (2021)
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