Cliff House Hotel Spa

We welcome you to our exclusive treatment offerings here at the Cliff house Hotel Ardmore, we hope that you will enjoy your stay and experience in the spa whether it is for an hour, day or more.

The tereatments have been picked with great care to ensure your holistic comfort and pleasure. We chose only products with equal care in order to achive our demands for excellent results - they are used with our complete confidence as we know the ultimate skin and body care.

Our highly trained therapists, who are experienced and professional, will ensure your treatments are easy to remember and never forgotten - an expreience to surpass all others . Our aim is to create harmony, relaxation, balance and calm for you, so when you have to leave us , you feel revitalised and refreshed.

Please feel free to discuss your treatment choices with our experts - they know and understand the treatments and will advise on which experience would best suit your needs. 

Our philosophy is to ensure that everone leaves The Well feeling better for their visit. The treatments and product ranges have been chosen with great care so that we can confidently say there is something for everybody.

The products we use include:

French Anne Semonin brand using combinations of essential oils and trace elements to tailor-make each treatment.

The Irish Voya certified organic seaweed range, rich in nutrients and minerals, suitable for all skin types.

Dermalogica - the well know and used treatment programme.

Leighton Denny - for consistently high quality manicures and pedicures.

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Lismore Castle:
The castle was built by King John in the 13th century. It was subsequently acquired by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1589 and since 1753 has been the home of the Dukes of Devonshire who reside there for five to six weeks per annum. For the remainder of the year, the fully staffed castle caters for small business conferences, holiday parties of up to 16 guests and is a particular favourite for large family gatherings. Leisure facilities include a golf course, salmon, brown and sea trout fishing and tennis. The staff including a butler and cook, provide a level of service associated with a more genteel era.

Youghal:
Little is known about the earliest settlement of Youghal. Its geographical position, a piece of flat land at the mouth of a great river, together with an abundance of pottery clay, would make it an obvious base. Here one could fish river and sea, trade upriver and overseas.

The earliest settlement evidence for the area is from the Mesolithic, approximately 8,000 years ago These early hunter/gatherers exploited the rich resources of the area and almost certainly arrived by sea. They were followed by succeeding waves of immigration bringing cultural changes and new ideas. The earliest farmers who arrived about 5,000 years ago are also represented in the landscape as are those of the bronze metal working culture of 3,800 years ago.

Evidence in the form of a mesolithic stone backed blade was found at Newport outside Youghal, while a mudstone axe was discovered near the old brickworks.

The Celtic culture arrived here 2,500 years ago and many fine fortified enclosures, raths, survive in the countryside around Youghal. The earliest settlement at Youghal was probably a rath, which is remembered by the very old road running around the town called Raheen Road.

There is evidence of contact with Roman Britain in the period before the coming of Christianity but no evidence of Roman presence here.