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House & Garden Magazine

August 2024

Burtown House, Co Kildare, home to James and Joanna Fennell and their family, feels firmly anchored in its setting. The drive gently curves towards the house, bordered by a meadow of long grass, with paths mown invitingly through it….

Irish Independent - Travel

April 2023

How do you make accommodation feel like a home? Easy — you live in it. James Fennell and his family lived in the Stable Yard for eight years while they were doing up Burtown House, which has been in his family since it was built in 1710….

Condé Nast Traveller

June 2021

High ceilings and natural light fill the space at Burtown House’s Green Barn Restaurant, a farm-to-fork spot with industrial pendant lights, stripped-back wooden tables and chairs and in-season blooms from the garden….

TheTaste.ie

October 2020

A leisurely weekend drive through the meandering roads of east Kildare brought us to Burtown House. We had previously visited Burtown House to avail of the fabulous takeaway menu that was on offer from The Green Barn in the midst of summer.

Irish Times - Food

November 2018

For Joanna and James Fennell, third-generation proprietors of Burtown House in Co Kildare, the key to creating the perfect meal for any festive get-together is a collaboration. “Creativity, lots of fresh herbs and including any kids at home to get stuck in,” says Joanna, the house and estate’s foodie….

Irish Independent

January 2017

The Green Barn is more than just a restaurant; it is an experience, which has been carefully crafted by Burtown House custodians James and Joanna Fennell. Burtown House, an early Georgian villa, was built near Ballitore in Co Kildare….

Irish Times

November 2016

Local. Fresh. Seasonal. Organic. Sustainably grown. Field to plate. Plot to plate. Farm to fork. These are the words appearing with increasing frequency on the menus of Irish restaurants, signalling the sea-change in our attitude to the food we eat….

Irish Times

November 2016

Here’s a place so hygge you nearly have to tell it to “back off” because you’ve only just met. That Danish idea of harnessing the cosy to cope with the bleak runs through The Green Barn like a name through a stick of rock….

Irish Independent

December 2016

You can’t argue with the idea of a restaurant that gathers many of its ingredients from its own organic gardens, and sources the rest from local organic and free-range farmers; we all want a place just like that near where we live….

Tastemade

November 2015

Our Airbnb in Ireland’s Ancient East was on the grounds of a 300-year-old Quaker house, which was a month away from opening a restaurant, so we documented our journey through Burtown House and The Green Barn.

Watch here