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The Golf Course at Adare Manor (formerly Adare Golf Club [a]) is an 18-hole championship golf course. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, it was added to the resort in 1995. [27] Following the purchase of the resort by J. P. McManus in 2015, it underwent a redesign by Tom Fazio. [28] Adare Manor was the venue for the Irish Open in 2007 and 2008. [29]
Lord Dunraven sold the ancestral home of Adare Manor and its 840 acres in 1984 to Irish-American businessman Tom Kane. The manor was converted into the Adare Manor Hotel. Thereafter he lived with his family at nearby Kilgobbin House. [5]
Adare's distinctive style was the vision of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Dunraven, who, in 1832, decided to replace his Georgian mansion with a Neo-Gothic manor, complete with gargoyles, parapets ...
He is best known for his work on Adare Manor in the 19th century. He supervised the construction of the building over a 21-year period. [ 1 ] An inscription on the east front of Adare Manor commemorates 'James Conolly of Adare, mason, faithful friend and servant of the Earl of Dunraven , from AD 1831 till his death in 1852'.
Lord Dunraven maintained an equestrian stud farm on his Adare Manor estate. He experimented in growing tobacco until his factory was burned down in 1916. [36] A keen yachtsman, [37] the earl was the owner and co-owner of the 1893 and 1895 America's Cup yachts Valkyrie II and Valkyrie III.
Quin had already been created a Baronet, of Adare in County Limerick, in the Baronetage of Ireland, in 1781, Baron Adare, of Adare in the County of Limerick, on 31 July 1800, [1] and Viscount Mount-Earl on 3 February 1816. He was made Viscount Adare in 1822 at the same time as he was given the earldom. The latter peerage titles were also in the ...
The Irish Open golf championship was staged at Adare in 2007 and 2008. There are two 18-hole golf courses in the village: The Adare Golf Club which is on the grounds of the Adare Manor Hotel, and the Adare Manor Golf Club, which is a separate entity. In athletics, the village has hosted the annual Adare 10K, held every February, since 1994.
Kilgobbin was the original seat of the Quin family, and mostly served as the dower house after the construction of Adare Manor. [1] In 1777, Sir Richard Quin , later created 1st Earl of Dunraven, married Lady Frances Muriel Fox-Strangways, a daughter of Stephen Fox-Strangways, 1st Earl of Ilchester .