Exploring Ireland’s finest hotels, one bath (and robe) at a time... In Ireland, we are blessed with a profusion of magical, castellated properties that habitually beguile and seduce visitors, captivating them with their historical significance and architectural splendour. Tourists are awed by them, locals both support and rely on them and the rest of us are usually content to admire and appreciate their exquisite beauty from afar, knowing, that just like that illicit bottle of fine, vintage Champagne, or a tin of exquisite, briny pearls of caviar, they are just, ever so slightly out of reach. But here is what I have learned from a recent visit to the pinnacle of Irish castles, by which I mean, Ashford Castle; some things are worth saving for and splurging on. As it turns out,