Location: Kells, County Meath, A82 Y650

Business type: Venue

Business website: www.headfortarms.ie/

Date listed: August 1, 2025

“Our award-winning hotel offers an array of activities for all guests, including Headfort Golf with 36 holes…hiking, and luxury spa packages designed to rejuvenate body and mind. After a day exploring the Boyne Valley or golfing, guests can unwind in bespoke accommodations or our serene outdoor spaces.” ‘Exploring the Boyne Valley’ on horseback perhaps? The Headford’s website states that “the central hub of the hotel is The Lounge” where “hunting prints hang”, and the Hotel is a regular host of fundraisers for hunts including the Ballymacad Foxhounds hunt ball in 2022 and the Meath Foxhounds hunt ball in 2023. Why might that be? The pro-hunt Irish Field provides the answer writing in an article in December 2024 that “Olivia Duff, the owner of the very popular Headford Arms Hotel in Kells, a favourite venue for a hunt ball, was hunting with her daughter Anna…”, adding in typical drooling fashion that during the Meath Foxhounds hunt, a fox was chased by hounds for 20 minutes and another was terrorised “in a large circle over good hunting country”.

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