Wellness
Heat, then cold, then warm water for as long as you like, and a small stone bar at the end of it all, because it can't be all work and no play.
The wellness is dotted around the place, not housed in one building. The sauna is in the lean-to; the cold plunge sits at the front of the house; out the back, in the run of old stone buildings, are the hot tub and the bar.
Taken in the obvious order: heat, then cold, then warm water, then the bar.
Sauna
Cedar-lined and quiet, built from Irish cedar, with a single window cut to the hill. It's an electric sauna, simple to bring up to heat, and there are built-in speakers if you want a podcast or your own music while you sit.
Get the heat up, stay until you've had enough, then step straight out into the cold.
Cold plunge
Fed by the stream that runs through the place, so it's properly cold, the way only mountain water is. A minute is plenty; most people manage a good deal less, and feel it for the rest of the day.
Hot tub
Under the old barn roof, lit low, with a pull-down screen for the evenings that turn into films. Warm water after cold is the part nobody rushes. Bring a drink and stay put.
Síbín an Túir
Because it can't be all work and no play. Síbín an Túir is the social end of it, a small private bar built into the stone, with a proper Guinness tap, a few stools, and no last orders.
The old word for a back-door country pub, kept for whoever has the run of the place. No menu, no public, no closing time but your own.
