Deidre Dalton: About Larkin City

 

BANSHEE POINT HOTEL,

GOLF COURSE & WINERY

 

Banshee Point Hotel. Click on image to view larger size in a new window.


Dining Room at the Banshee Point Hotel. Click on image to view larger size in a new window.


One of the guest rooms inside the Banshee Point Hotel. Click on image to view larger size in a new window.

(Above): Banshee Point Hotel, dining room in the Banshee Point Hotel, and a guest room in the hotel.

 

The Banshee Point Hotel (including golf course and winery) resides on acreage left to Liam Larkin by his father Rory in 1999, near Larkin Highway, south of the mansion. The grand opening occurred on Wednesday, June 29, 2005.

 

The castle-like appearance of the Banshee Point Hotel and the emerald green of the golf course beyond is a stunning tableau for all guests. Built against a small hill, the lodging has two stories and an observation parapet that runs the length of the building. The black concrete parking lot is bordered by neatly-clipped boxwood shrubs with apertures that lead to the golf course and an outdoor dining veranda. Soft halogen lights built into the ground cast elegant tracery on the hotel at night, giving focus to the castellated sculpture. Constructed with the same whitened brick and stone used for the winery, the hotel offers an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a fully-staffed spa with cosmetic treatments, sauna and Jacuzzi, guided horseback riding, picnics, and balloon rides from Banshee Point and the lighthouse.


Banshee Point Golf Course. Click on image to view larger size in a new window.

(Above): Banshee Point Golf Course.


The ten-acre driving range at the Banshee Point Golf Course (pictured above) has eighteen holes. The playing field was tucked against small rolling hills, flat expanses, man-made reed ponds, sand traps and arched bridges, all set amongst emerald green sod.

 

Banshee Point Winery

(Above): Banshee Point Winery.

 

The Banshee Point Winery is part of the Banshee Point Hotel & Golf Course. The winery produces ten select wines and sells about 250,000 bottles per year.

Banshee Point Winery

(Above): Another view of the Banshee Point Winery.

 

The Winery employs more than thirty people, and includes a tasting room, wine shop, a small but exclusive dining room by reservation only, along with wine tastings, culinary demonstrations and wine seminars. There are also walking guided tours, when guests are permitted to see the wine production areas.

 

Please Note: The castle image displayed above is actually the Abbyglen Castle Hotel in Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland and remains their sole copyright. The dining room and guest room photos are from the Castle Creek Inn in Sandy, Utah, and remain their sole copyright. The golf course depicted comes from the Adare Manor Golf Course in County Limerick, Ireland and remains their sole copyright. The second and third winery pictures are actually from the Lynfred Winery in Roselle, Illinois and remain their sole copyright.

 

Images referenced to the Collective Obsessions Saga provided inspiration to the author's imagination but remain fictional in context.

 

Deidre Dalton