The smokehouse is located on the very edge of Connemara – a place of enchanting and unspoilt serenity which is outlined with a beautiful jagged coastline.
The castle ruins of the Pirate Queen Granuaile (Grace O’Malley, c1530-1603) look down on the smokehouse from across the harbour below the Hill of Doon. The moody peaks of the 12 Bens look out over the castle and smokehouse to the green islands scattered across Ballyconneely Bay.
Visitors to the smokehouse often describe a feeling of being perched at ‘the end of the world’ with the ocean stretching out for thousands of miles before them. It’s a magnificent place which people have fallen in love with for centuries.