How many guests can you take?

A hundred comfortably in the function room, and it can be laid out for smaller or larger parties. Tell us your numbers and we will work out how the room should sit.

Can we bring our own caterer?

Yes. Bring your own caterer, or ask us for sample menus from our partners.

Can you arrange music?

Yes. Traditional musicians, bands and DJs can all be arranged.

Can our guests stay over?

The cottage and cabins sleep up to ten.

How do guests get there?

We are four kilometres from Carrigart village, and transport can be arranged for your guests.

The function room at Davey John’s Forge laid with round tables under steel trusses and fairy lights

A place to celebrate, above Mulroy Bay.

Birthdays, anniversaries and family get-togethers in a restored forge, with its own bar and a warmly lit function room, and the music and transport arranged.

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Celebrations at Davey John’s Forge

The old forge, made ready for your party.

Davey John’s Forge is at Carrigart in County Donegal, looking out across Mulroy Bay. The blacksmith’s forge at its heart has been lovingly restored, and it now leads from a lounge with its own stove, through a bar, into a function room made for the evening.

It suits a fiftieth, a big anniversary, a family reunion or a night when everyone is home at once. Tell us what you are celebrating and we will work out the rest with you.

Where: Devlinmore, Carrigart, Co. Donegal, F92 K6H0. Four kilometres from Carrigart village, above Mulroy Bay.
The room: A hundred guests comfortably. Other layouts for smaller and larger parties.
The spaces: A forge lounge, a bar and a function room, opening into one another.
The bar: A professional tap set-up and spirit optics. Bar service is arranged with you.
Music: Traditional musicians, bands and DJs, arranged.
Food: Your own caterer, or sample menus from our partners on request.
Getting here: Transport can be arranged for your guests.
Staying with us: The cottage and cabins sleep up to ten.

First, the lounge

The forge, restored.

Guests come into the original forge, lovingly restored and now with its own stove, comfortable seating and antiques on display along the old stone walls. It is where the night gathers before it moves through.

The forge lounge with a lit stove set into the old stone fireplace, leather sofas with sheepskin throws and the original forge fittings on the stone wall

The lounge and the bar

Music and a full bar.

Beside the lounge is a bar that can be stocked as a full bar: a professional tap set-up for lager and stout, optics for spirits, bottle fridges, ice makers and a glass washer. Bar service is arranged with you, and traditional musicians, bands and DJs can be arranged too.

A traditional music session in the forge lounge, with a guitarist, an accordion player, a fiddler and a flute player by the stone wall

Then, the function room

A warm room, carefully lit.

The lounge and the bar both lead straight through to the function room. It is warm and carefully lit, with lighting designed throughout, and it holds a hundred comfortably.

It can be laid out for a long dinner, a dance floor or both, for a smaller party or a larger one. Tell us what you have in mind and we will work out how the room should sit.

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The function room laid for dinner, with a burlap curtain hung with festoon bulbs and greenery at the far end and round tables set with pumpkin and dahlia centrepieces

Around the forge

Rooms made for gathering.

The room Laid for dinner, with a red carpet down the room.

The function room dressed with round tables, pumpkin centrepieces, steel trusses hung with fairy lights and a red carpet down the room

A full room A full room, warmly lit.

The function room full of seated guests applauding during the speeches, round tables dressed with autumn flowers

The forge lounge Room on the sofas for everyone.

Guests seated together on the sofas in the forge lounge beside the wood stove

Music Guitar in the lounge.

A bearded guitarist playing in the forge lounge with a gold candelabra and red dahlias behind him

The tables Fruit, veg and flowers, piled high.

A harvest centrepiece of pomegranates, figs, grapes, cauliflower, savoy cabbage and red dahlias on the lounge table

The courtyard The canopy outside the red doors.

The paved courtyard under a clear sky, a canopy with festoon lights over the red doors, hay bales and potted grasses, and The Office beside it

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Celebrations at Davey John’s Forge

How many guests can you take?: A hundred comfortably in the function room, and it can be laid out for smaller or larger parties. Tell us your numbers and we will work out how the room should sit.
Can we bring our own caterer?: Yes. Bring your own caterer, or ask us for sample menus from our partners.
Can you arrange music?: Yes. Traditional musicians, bands and DJs can all be arranged.
Can our guests stay over?: The cottage and cabins sleep up to ten.
How do guests get there?: We are four kilometres from Carrigart village, and transport can be arranged for your guests.

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Tell us about your celebration.

What you are celebrating, a rough date and the numbers you have in mind are plenty to start. We will be back to you shortly.

Prefer to message? WhatsApp us, or email shane@daveyjohnsforge.ie.