Large vintage-style nickel rain showerhead on a corner wall of warm peach-toned square tiles, with a smaller handheld shower fitting below
Pink and white magnolia blossoms on bare branches with budding green leaves, set against a weathered grey stone wall
Hand pouring steaming tea from a wood-handled metal teapot into a sandy stoneware cup on a wooden tray, beside a dark glazed cup

Guesthouse

The Ómós Guesthouse invites guests into a slower pace of living, offering a refined interpretation of the Irish guesthouse. Sixteen rooms, ten in the main house and six in the adjacent coachhouses, have been designed by Ryan W. Kennihan Architects in collaboration with Asca and Relief Gallery. Each room carries its own character, with Irish bed linen, handcrafted ceramics, and Ómós bodycare.

Throughout, spaces are reimagined through a carefully curated art collection, considered materials and textures, and a balance of the custom-made and the found. Within the guesthouse, you will find An Siopa Beag - our little shop, where guests can take home a curated collection of Ómós wares, offering bespoke scents, handcrafted objects, and bread from the bakery.

Red-brick and stone guesthouse with slate dormer roofs and chimneys, glimpsed through the budding spring branches of a tree under a blue sky

The Art

Ómós is a space to celebrate and showcase Irish and international artists. Both in the house and the restaurant, our walls are decorated with a rotating collection of works that inspire our creative process and ground the space in contemporary craft.

Artists include: Maria Simonds Gooding, Damien Flood, Stephen Lawlor, Charles Lamb and Louis le Brocquy.

A magnolia tree in white blossom against the standing-seam metal roofs of Ómós, framed by a dark timber overhang and evergreen trees
A diagonal shaft of sunlight falling across a textured plaster wall framed by warm pine timber beams and panelling at Ómós

Restaurant and Bakery

Designed by Architect Ryan Kennihan in collaboration with Asca and Relief Gallery, the restaurant and bakery buildings take inspiration from the Irish farmstead.

Our cooking is guided by nature, our close relationships with producers, and a contemporary sense of Ireland. Served in the restaurant, our tasting menu is inspired by the forests, rivers, hedgerows and fields that surround us. 

An arched, black timber-shingled sauna cabin nestled among tall trees and greenery in the wooded grounds at Ómós
Close-up of the arched window and overlapping black shingles of the Ómós outdoor sauna, with a pale wood bench glimpsed inside

Sauna under the trees

Drawing on the ancient history of Irish sweat houses, our Douglas fir sauna looks out over the Millpond - a place for a quiet moment to reset. Follow a heat session with a dip in the swimming pond, or find a peaceful corner on the banks to read as the afternoon fades.

A wooded slope carpeted with purple bluebells and wildflowers between ivy-clad tree trunks at Ómós
A person in a linen shirt crouches at the edge of a still millpond that mirrors clouds and sky, beside grasses and a tree trunk

The Garden

Designed by Edward and Arthur Shackleton, our 4.2-acre gardens feature naturalistic native planting and winding paths that invite slow wandering. Discover the mill race as it diverts into a beautiful waterfall, or walk the forest floor in springtime when it is carpeted in bluebells.

A person walks alone along a winding path through a dense, shadowy forest of tall conifers near Ómós

Walking trails

The grounds at Ómós are made for wandering. A network of connected paths takes you through forest and along the river, from a gentle 1.5 km loop to a longer 1.9 km trail, or all the way into Abbeyleix town via the Lords Walk (2.2 km one way), passing the edge of Abbeyleix Bog, one of Ireland's most celebrated community-led conservation landscapes.

Rows of crusty, dark-baked sourdough loaves resting on rustic wooden bakery shelves with a chalked price tag above
A person walks through open heathland of bog, heather and scrub toward a pine forest under a blue sky with drifting clouds
The black timber shopfront of Morrissey's family grocer and pub in Abbeyleix, with gilded lettering, a bench and a flower-filled window

Our surroundings

Beyond our gates, forest paths and river trails wind through the surrounding landscape. Our team can point you in the right direction, or join you on a foraging walk through the wild larder on our doorstep. Follow the trails far enough, and they'll bring you into Abbeyleix town, an essential extension of our story. Morrissey's for a pint that has been perfected over 250 years, Mueller & O'Connell for pastries worth the walk alone, and the Anthology design store, where you won't leave empty-handed.

Guest bedroom with a linen-dressed bed, a green daybed beneath a sash window and a wooden chest of drawers with a lamp and framed abstract art
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Oak dining chair with a woven wool seat beside round timber tables set with plates and linen napkins in the restaurant
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