12 bedrooms
Ghan House is a 4* AA rated, family run Georgian House - now in it's 18th year of continuous business with 18 years of awards and nominations including:
Winners of 'Best Customer Service in County Louth 2015' - Restaurant Association of Ireland
Head Chef, winner of 'Best Chef in Leinster' 2015
Winners 'Best Hotel & Country House Restaurant in County Louth.' - for 3 continuous years.
Our restaurant has retained 2 AA rosettes every year since 2012 plus the AA's special 'Eggcup' award for "an outstanding breakfast using fresh local produce"
2015 - 17th continuous year of 'Best 100 Places to stay in Ireland' John & Sally Mckenna's Guide to Ireland.
We also offer cookery or wine-tasting classes, corporate team-building activities and meeting room facilities and we offer private dining rooms for your special occasions.
Our drawing room will hold up to 34 guests on one long, 1 metre wide table or 46 guests on 6 ovals of 6/7/8 on each oval and up to 54 guests – banquet style.
The ballroom will hold up to 24 guests on one long or 4 ovals of 5/6 guests and up to 40 guests – banquet style.
The ground floor dining room is perfect for even more intimate – from 5 to 18 guests. and up to 32 guests, banquet style.
All private dining rooms have mountain views & log fires.
For intimate weddings – for 4 to 50 guests – our Civil Ceremony room is perfect. Celebrate with drinks on the lawns or in front of an open log fire, then simply have a gorgeous, relaxed dinner in one of our private dining rooms. If you wish to skip dancing and evening guests, then this alternative to exclusive use is very laid back way to enjoy your day!
When you wish to have a band or DJ in the ballroom that has wall maple dance floor and/or evening guests, then to have exclusive use of Ghan House is perfect!.
Exclusive use
This means the whole house and gardens are just for you & your guests, you can arrive when you want & have your wedding dinner when you want. The Exclusive Use rate includes the use of the bridal suite & reduction on the cost of our bedrooms for your guests. We also do not take any lunch bookings on the day of your wedding & usually the day after too. We devote our energies for your day!
2 AA Rosette kitchen
We use the same award-winning 2 AA Rosette team for our restaurant to cook for your wedding. We take care of all the hard work so you can focus on the big day. You can bring your own wine and just pay a corkage fee – only for the wine we open. Our menus reflect the reputation our restaurant has earned over 23 years.
Civil Ceremonies
There are now many wonderful and romantic ways to have a ‘non church’ wedding – we can host your Civil Ceremony here at Ghan House in front of the open fire for up to 50 guests or the adjacent Heritage Centre if you have more guests.