During our 12 day Irish coach tour, we stayed at Connemara for 2 nights while in Galway. The hotel…read morewas not very convenient, being pretty far outside of town (too far to walk), but it is a very pretty hotel. The main problem with the hotel, was our room. It was unusually warm the first week of September, and our room did not have A/C. Compounding that, the windows barely opened, and have no screens. So we had several insects join us in the evening. They were able to give us an oscillating fan, which did help a little. When we went to shower the 1st morning, the water temp was stuck on scalding hot, and you literally could not take a shower. The second day, they did switch us to a different room, where the water temp worked fine. But still no A/C.
As for the restaurant, we ate in the main restaurant the first night, when we had a tour dinner, off a set menu. There were 40+ of us, so understandably I'm sure the food was prepared ahead of time. But it wasn't very good, and service was very slow. So much so that about a 1/3 of our group left after the entree, and didn't hang around for dessert. Now the second night, because we had a long day on Aran Islands (and because there is nothing around the hotel), we decided to eat dinner in the bar area. That dinner, was actually very good. My wife had the goats cheese salad and soup, and I had the mushroom gnocchi. We both liked our meals very much that night.
It's a nice hotel, and I'm sure on another visit things would go better. But this wasn't that visit. My recommendation: if it's warm when you get there, ask for a fan as soon as you check in.