Lucinda O'Sullivan Review

Restaurant Review - Pygmalion Restaurant at Parknasilla Resort  Lucinda O'Sullivan 

Parknasilla Resort on the Ring of Kerry has long been one of the jewels in the crown of Irish Tourism. Built in the mid 18thC on a sub-tropical 500 acre estate, overlooking an inlet of the Kenmare River, with the Gulf Stream nibbling at its toes, it has enjoyed a special place in the hearts of many Irish families as well as International visitors. Parknasilla became a hotel in the 1850’s and, with the advent of the railway folk would travel to Killarney and be ferried on by horse and carriage to Parknasilla. It has been visited by everyone from George Bernard Shaw to Charles de Gaulle, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to Princess Grace. I remember some years ago meeting an English lady who travelled over for 50 years, staying religiously 19 days with 19 ‘ballgowns’ for dinner, after which she sat in the hall, regaling everyone with her career as a former ballroom dancer. She was always so gently minded by Hotelier General Manager par extraordinaire, Jim Feeney, and the staff. Marvellous stuff, you couldn’t invent it.

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First published in the Sunday Independent on Sunday May 22, 2011.