The elegant hotel has not been used in a number of years, but was due to accommodate 70 asylum seekers this week. An inferno ripped through a 19th Century Georgian country hotel last night in Galway
A Google image of the Ross Lake House Hotel, in Rosscahill, Co.Galway
Fire crews brought the fire under control and a technical examination of the site is taking place later today. The fire broke out at approximately 11.35pm and nobody was inside the building when it was engulfed in flames.