Ruby’s Cottage. For six.
Three bedrooms, two green Chesterfields, a red half door onto the bay-view garden, and the wood-burner that lit the family Christmases.
Three bedrooms, two green Chesterfields, a red half door onto the bay-view garden, and the wood-burner that lit the family Christmases.
Ruby was Davey John’s wife. The cottage was hers.
Ruby’s Cottage was Shane’s grandfather’s, set into the hillside at Devlinmore with a view across Mulroy Bay. It’s been kept in the family for three generations and slowly restored: old beams, low doors, thick stone walls, a wood-burner that throws real heat, and a kitchen that’s been brought up to modern by quietly replacing one thing at a time.
It sleeps six in three bedrooms. The kitchen has a gas hob and an electric oven, a Bosch dishwasher, an air fryer and a Nespresso machine. The sitting room has two green Chesterfields and a cast-iron stove. The hot tub looks out across the bay. The home cinema projects onto a screen big enough for the whole family. The half door at the back opens onto a quartz-paved garden with palms, a chiminea, and a ceramic-egg BBQ.
HD projector and a pull-down screen big enough that nobody at the back has to squint. Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime, Spotify, and hundreds of TV channels all built in. There’s a Bluetooth speaker for the music side of things, so you can run a film for the kids in the sitting room and play something quieter on the deck at the same time.
It came in because Shane’s nieces and nephews kept asking for one. It stayed because every family that’s been since loves it.
Private, covered, and yours 24/7. Heated and ready when you arrive. The cover stays on between sessions so the heat doesn’t escape, and the view doesn’t change.
A kamado-style ceramic egg, the kind you can sear a steak on and slow-cook a brisket in. Charcoal, self-cleaning, and a quietly serious bit of kit for a cottage. Brush and ash bucket provided; instructions are in the welcome book.
A cast-iron chiminea on the patio for the kind of night when there isn’t a cloud and the bay is glassy. Logs are provided. The light pollution out here is properly low; on a moonless night you’ll get the Milky Way.
Separate from the cabin garden. Your dog can be off-lead front and back without worrying about another guest’s dog appearing. There’s a hose by the back door for wash-downs after the beach, and three blue-flag beaches with dog-friendly stretches are within twenty minutes.
Dogs at Davey John’sThe cottage sits between Milford and Carrigart, four kilometres from the village. It’s on a main road, not down a country lane, which means a short drive gets you almost anywhere on the Fanad and Rosguill peninsulas. Downings is about a five-minute drive on (roughly four kilometres); Letterkenny is around twenty-five minutes south via Ramelton and Milford on the R245 (roughly twenty-nine kilometres).
Guest feedback · Ruby’s Cottage
125 reviews to date
The cottage is two hundred years old, restored slowly, and very much itself. The list below is the things we always end up explaining anyway; better said here, before you’ve packed the car.
Steeper than modern stairs, and the door at the top is low. Shane is 6’1" and stays in this room himself when he’s at home, but it’s worth knowing: guests with mobility issues should take the double room downstairs.
Heated and ready when you arrive: at temperature when you walk in, not warming up.
The cottage is on a main road, not down a country lane. The garden at the back is enclosed and quiet, the front looks onto the road. We mention this honestly because some guests have been surprised; the trade-off is that you’re four kilometres from the village, not twenty.
Off-street parking right outside the front door, room for two cars. Cabin guests park further up the drive, so the cottage spaces are yours alone.
Check-in from 15:00. Self check-in by lockbox; the code arrives by WhatsApp the morning of your arrival. Check-out by 10:00, and if you need a later one ask; usually fine outside peak weeks.
Fibre to the home; last speed test was 465 Mbps. There’s a small dedicated workspace if you need to take a call without commandeering the dining table.
Fresh linen, towels, hot tub robes and a stack of beach towels are all provided. If you’d like to take a robe home, we ask for €100 a robe and €10 a towel; most guests just enjoy them on the deck.
We honour Airbnb and Booking.com rates here, and there’s no commission to swallow, which usually means a small discount and an easier conversation about anything you need.
