Worth Coming Together For

Some events do more than fill a room or a programme. They bring people together in a way that stays with them.

In Killarney, the place becomes part of the experience.

Mountains, lakes and woodland surround a town shaped by generations of welcoming people. At Gleneagle, everything needed for a great event comes together in one place, with one of Ireland’s most remarkable landscapes just outside.

As a destination for conferences, corporate gatherings, residential events and incentive travel, Gleneagle combines everything needed for the event with everything Killarney can add to the experience.

People come here with a purpose. Killarney gives them something more.

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Time Together Changes Things

The best conversations don’t always happen when they’re scheduled.

They happen over breakfast. Between sessions. On the walk outside. Over dinner when nobody is watching the clock.

With four-star accommodation, event spaces, dining, leisure and entertainment all onsite, people stay at the heart of the event and spend more time together.

Ideas are shared. Relationships grow. Teams have fun. People reconnect.

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Let Killarney In

Killarney National Park is on our doorstep. Beyond it are the lakes and mountains, the Gap of Dunloe, Ring of Kerry, Dingle Peninsula and a landscape that has drawn people here for generations.

Don’t leave all of that outside your event.

Follow a morning of conference sessions with an afternoon on the lakes. Take a leadership team into the National Park. Give international delegates their first experience of the Ring of Kerry. For incentive travel in Killarney, build a programme around adventure, food, entertainment and shared experiences across Kerry.

Our team can work with organisers and destination partners to make Killarney and Kerry part of the programme.

Here, the destination doesn’t sit outside the event. It becomes part of it.

Make Room for Something More

A change of surroundings can create space for new thinking. A shared experience can change the dynamic of a team. A walk can start a conversation that wouldn’t happen across a meeting table.

And sometimes, having a brilliant night together is exactly what people need.

Gleneagle has hosted people who came to Killarney to learn, do business, compete, celebrate, discover, reflect and connect.

One very different gathering came in 2012, when Zen teacher Thích Nhất Hạnh, 50 monks and nuns from Plum Village and around 750 delegates came together at Gleneagle for Living Mindfully Today, a four-day residential retreat.

Whatever brings people together, this place adds something of its own.

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Built Around Your People

A residential conference. A leadership gathering. An incentive programme. An association event.

There is no single formula.

With accommodation, flexible event spaces, extensive in-house production, dining, leisure and entertainment onsite, we can build the formal and informal parts of your programme around the people you’re bringing together.

Over the years, Gleneagle has welcomed an extraordinary range of gatherings, from Google’s EMEA Sales Conference and events for IBM to TBEX Europe, major national and international sporting competitions, Ireland BikeFest and Ireland’s Citizenship Ceremonies.

Different audiences. Different ambitions. Different reasons for coming together.

You bring the purpose. We’ll help build the experience around it.

Worth Coming For

Killarney may take a little longer to reach than some city-centre destinations.

We believe what it gives back is worth it.

Getting away from the everyday can be part of the reason for bringing people together. Once here, delegates have everything they need at Gleneagle, with Killarney and Kerry around them.

Killarney is connected by road and direct rail, with Kerry Airport nearby and Cork and Shannon airports providing further options for international delegates. Our team can also work with organisers on the practicalities of bringing groups to Killarney.

If people are making the journey, give them somewhere worth coming for.