An independent visitor's guide to the 11-room boutique guesthouse on Mill Road in the heart of Saggart Village — five minutes' walk from Citywest Hotel, with Carpe Diem Italian restaurant on the ground floor and the Saggart Luas terminus a short walk away.
Saggart, Co. Dublin · Mill Road · (01) 458 9226
A small, owner-run guesthouse rather than a chain hotel — useful when Citywest is full, when you're flying out of Dublin Airport early, or when you want a base for the Slade Valley walks and Wicklow Mountains.
11 deluxe en-suite bedrooms. Owner-run rather than chain-managed. Set behind a stone-fronted building on Mill Road, a few doors off Saggart's main street.
Rooms & rates →The ground-floor restaurant at the guesthouse. Italian and Mediterranean. Useful to know — there's no need to leave the building for dinner if you've come in tired off the Red Line.
More on the restaurant →Co. Dublin village wedged between the N7, Citywest, Rathcoole and the foothills of the Dublin Mountains. Population roughly doubled between 2011 and 2022 — still feels village-scale around Mill Road.
Village guide →Most guests fall into one of three groups: business visitors heading to Citywest Business Campus or the conference hotel, travellers using Saggart Luas as a low-cost park-and-ride into Dublin, and walkers basing themselves close to the Slade Valley, Slievethoul and Saggart Reservoir.
The Forge Guesthouse pre-dates most of the surrounding development. The village itself takes its name from the old forge — see the story page for that thread.
Mill Road sits just off the main street through Saggart Village. From the Saggart Luas terminus, a short walk down Garter Lane and right onto Mill Road brings you to the door.
| From | How | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Saggart Luas terminus | Walk down Garter Lane, right on Mill Road | ~5 min |
| Citywest Hotel main entrance | Walk via Garter Lane | ~5 min |
| Dublin Airport | M50 northbound, exit J7 / N7 | ~25 min off-peak |
| Dublin city centre (O'Connell St) | Luas Red Line, Saggart → Jervis | ~40 min |
| Tallaght (The Square) | Luas Red Line | ~10 min |