Charging an electric car.
Where to charge nearby, and why we ask you not to charge from the sockets at the stays.
One supply, shared by everything here.
If you’re travelling in an electric car, please don’t charge it from the sockets at the cottage or the cabins, indoors or out.
This isn’t about the cost of the electricity. The whole smallholding runs off a single supply: three stays, three hot tubs and the sauna, all drawing from the same place. It’s close to its limit as it is.
A car pulling power for a few hours will trip the main breaker, and there is only one breaker for the whole place. Everything goes off at once, in every stay and not just the one you’re in: the hot tubs, the sauna, the heating, the fridges. It has to be put back up by hand, so if it goes late at night it stays off until someone can get to it. And once it’s back up, it can go again. Being cut off and brought back like that isn’t good for the appliances either.
An ordinary three-pin socket was never meant to run a car overnight either. It’s the slowest way to charge by some distance, and it’s the one most likely to cause a problem.
There are proper chargers ten minutes up the road, and plenty more in Letterkenny. They’re all below, and on the map.
The nearest chargers. Rosapenna is the easy one.
Every one of these was checked against the network’s own information before it went on this page, and the distances are real driving distances from our gate. Charge points do change hands and go out of service, though, so it’s always worth checking live status in your car or your charging app before you set off.
Talk to us before you travel.
The door isn’t closed on this. If you know you’ll arrive with very little range, or charging is going to be genuinely difficult for you, tell us when you book or message us before you set off. We’d far rather work something out in advance than have you arrive and find out on the night. What we can’t do is have a car plugged in without us knowing, because that’s the bit that causes trouble for everyone else staying.
