Temple House · Est. 1665

The Wedding Brochure

A Georgian manor on a private County Sligo estate — entirely yours, from the first glass on the front steps to breakfast the morning after.

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Since 1665

the same family’s home

1,000 acres

of private parkland

Sleeps 28

manor house & cottage

Up to 160

guests on the day

20 min

from Sligo town

01Welcome

Yours, entirely

Most venues give you a function room and a finish time. Temple Housegives you the keys. For your wedding, the entire estate — the house, every room, every acre of parkland — belongs to you and the people you love. No other guests. No other event. No bar full of strangers.

That changes the shape of the day. Your ceremony can be under the trees at noon or by the fire at four. Dinner runs as long as the stories do. And when the music finally stops, nobody calls a taxi — your closest people are asleep upstairs, and tomorrow starts with a full Irish breakfast together.

This brochure has everything in it — the spaces, the beds, the menus and the honest numbers. When you’re ready, you can price your whole wedding yourself in about three minutes with our package builder.

02The Story

Seven centuries of welcome

Temple House has been somewhere worth travelling to for a very long time. Marrying here means writing your chapter into a story that started long before living memory.

1280
The lands belong to a nearby religious foundation whose ruins still stand. Travellers have been coming this way ever since.
c. 1740
The house is built — a small, perfectly proportioned Georgian country house, recorded today in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
1800s
Home to one family for over two centuries, the house becomes part of the surrounding county’s story.
2000
After decades standing silent, a painstaking restoration begins — reversing later alterations and returning the panelled interiors to their early eighteenth-century character.
Today
Roderick & Helena are the latest custodians, opening the whole estate for exclusive use — weddings, gatherings and slow weekends.

The restored panelled drawing room at Temple House

Restored panelling, three centuries of proportion

03Your Day

One estate, every scene of the day

From two of you to a hundred and sixty — the estate scales to the wedding you actually want. Up to 28 of your favourite people stay over; for bigger celebrations, marquees on the lawn seat up to 160 for dinner and dancing.

The walled garden and parkland at Temple House — The ceremony
Say it under open Sligo sky — on the lawns in front of the house, or down by the lake in sight of the Knights Templar castle ruins. If the weather turns, the drawing room’s fireplaces make the warmest plan B in Ireland.

The drawing room
Champagne, speeches and that first married hour — period fireplaces, deep sofas and three centuries of good conversation soaked into the walls.

The dining room set for dinner — The dinner
Intimate weddings dine in the manor’s candlelit dining room. Larger parties feast in a festoon-lit marquee on the lawn — tables, chairs and heaters included, dance floor strongly encouraged.

The coach house bar — The late bar & the morning after
The coach house has its own private bar and terrace for the night owls. Then the best part nobody plans for: everyone back around one long table for breakfast, retelling the whole day.

04Stay

Beds for the people who matter

Forty-four guests sleep on the estate across three very different homes — so the wedding doesn’t end at midnight, it just moves rooms.

Six bedrooms · sleeps 14

The Manor House

The heart of the wedding. Grand entrance hall, drawing rooms, library and the dining room downstairs; upstairs, the Blue, Grey and Pink Suites with the Yellow and Blue Rooms — period fireplaces, deep baths and views over the parkland. The couple’s suite is, naturally, the best room in the house.

Four bedrooms · sleeps 12

The Coach House

The party annex. Its own kitchen, log-burning stove, private terrace and — crucially — its own bar. Four en-suite rooms named for the estate: the Curlew, the Grove, the Hawthorn and the Heather. Perfect for the bridal party the night before, and the session the night of.

05Food & Drink

Fed properly, poured generously

Three dinner menus, built on local and seasonal ingredients, priced per person with nothing hidden. Day guests join the wedding feast at the same rate as everyone staying.

Rustic

€35pp

Honest, hearty, Irish

Smoked salmon on brown bread, or seasonal soup
Fish pie · pork chop · citrus chicken · Tuscan roast vegetables
A proper dessert to finish

Select

€45pp

The crowd-pleaser

Artisan board · chicken liver pâté · French onion soup
Sea bass · tarragon chicken · lamb shank · Guinness beef stew · butternut squash tart
Blueberry fool · French apple tart

Premium

€75pp

Wine included

Artisan board · smoked salmon · roasted tomato soup
Venison · salmon en croûte · coq au vin · lamb cutlets · wild mushroom risotto
French apple tart · chocolate & raspberry · profiteroles

The morning after

Continental breakfast€12 pp
Traditional Irish breakfast€18 pp
The Full Works (both, obviously)€25 pp
Classic afternoon tea€32 pp

The bar

Cash bar€0
Beer & wine package€20 pp
Beer, wine & cocktails€35 pp
Open tab to your limit, then cash baryou choose

Plus the Guinness keg, DJ, live music and marquee options in the builder.

06Pricing

Honest numbers, on the page

Most venues make you enquire to learn the price. Ours is right here — and you can price your exact wedding, to the euro, with the package builder.

Intimate Elopement

€160/guest

€3,200 · 20 guests

—One night, whole estate
—Up to 20 guests staying
—Select dinner menu
—Cash bar

Classic Wedding Weekend

€154/guest

€11,550 · 75 guests

—Two nights, whole estate
—25 staying + 50 day guests
—Rustic dinners + wedding feast for all 75
—Full Irish breakfasts
—Beer & wine package for everyone

The Estate Takeover

€140/guest

€28,000 · 200 guests

—Two nights, whole estate
—40 staying + 160 day guests
—Two marquees on the lawn
—Wedding feast for all 200
—Full Irish breakfasts
—Beer & wine for everyone + bar tab + DJ

How the venue fee works

When everyone attending stays on the estate, the venue fee is a flat €750 — your accommodation is already paying for the house. Add day guests and the fee scales with the size of the day:

Up to 30 guests

€750

31 – 80 guests

€1,500

81 – 150 guests

€2,500

150 + guests

€3,500

Secure your date with a 15% deposit; the balance is split into two relaxed milestones before the day.

Price your exact wedding in three minutes

Guests, nights, menus, bar — see the total update live.

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07Planning

You bring the yes. We bring Lisa.

Every Temple House wedding comes with our in-house wedding planner, Lisa Chalfa — starting with a free 20-minute planning session the moment you enquire, and on hand the whole way to the day itself.

And because it’s 2026: the moment your enquiry lands, we build you a free online wedding invitation and planner — a shareable invitation page your guests RSVP to, plus a live checklist, budget tracker and guest list that Lisa works from with you. No other venue in Ireland hands you that on day one.

Book your free session with Lisa

08Find Us

The middle of everywhere

Temple House sits in Ballymote, County Sligo — deep enough in the countryside that the loudest thing at night is the wedding, close enough that nobody’s journey becomes a story of its own.

Sligo town20 minutes
Ireland West Airport Knock30 minutes
Dublin & Dublin Airport2.5 hours

Temple House, Templehouse Demesne, Ballymote, County Sligo, F56 NN50, Ireland
+353 87 986 7986 · weddings@templehouse.ie

Map showing the location of Temple House

Temple House · Est. 1740

The whole estate is waiting. So are we.