Four generations of women have run Miss Courtney’s, ever since they opened their doors in 1909, a century of service to the town. Today, the gleam in this room makes you smile from the second you walk through the door – only the Killarney Park Hotel rivals Courtney’s for housekeeping – and the ambience and setting of Sandra Dunlea’s tearooms is ageless and graceful. When Sam and PJ McKenna sat down here one Saturday morning, they quickly proclaimed it one of their favourite places, and that before they had even eaten a smoked salmon sandwich or a cup cake. After our friend Françoise had been, she told a Killarney boat man the next day that they had enjoyed the vegetable soup and the chicken sandwich and the tea, and he replied: “Ah sure, I remember it well. My mother used to bring me there when I was a boy and they had lovely éclairs there.” See: a visit to Miss Courtney’s is a memory for ever.
