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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]
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 ...
The manor was converted into the Adare Manor Hotel. Thereafter he lived with his family at nearby Kilgobbin House. [5] The family also owned the Dunraven Arms Hotel which was sold to hotelier Brian Murphy and is now under the watchful eye of the debonair Louis Murphy. [6] He was chairman of the Irish Wheelchair Association for two decades. [7]
Dunraven was an inaugural member of Glamorgan County Council, representing Bridgend as a Conservative between 1889 and 1892. He also sat as Moderate Party councillor representing Wandsworth on the London County Council from 1895 to 1899. [25] Dunraven was the owner of the 39,000-acre (160 km 2) Adare Manor estate at Adare, County Limerick.
Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (usually referred to as Earl of Dunraven) was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 5 February 1822 for Valentine Quin, 1st Viscount Mount-Earl . 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 ...
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.
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'. [2] There is also a tribute to James Connolly, by the 3rd Earl of Dunraven, in the book "Memorials of Adare manor." [1]
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