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It was The 4th Earl of Kenmare who decided to build a new mansion on a hillside with views of Lough Leane in 1872. The old manor, Kenmare House, was demolished and an Elizabethan-Revival manor house on a more elevated site erected at a cost was well over £100,000 (equivalent to £11,278,000 in 2023).
Torc Mountain (Irish: Sliabh Torc, meaning 'mountain of wild boar'), [2] at 535 metres (1,755 ft), is the 329th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list. It is a popular mountain for hill walkers as it has a stone or boarded path (using railway sleepers) from its base at Torc Waterfall to its summit, which has views of the Lakes of Killarney. [3]
This last Kenmare House was built on the Killorglin Road, beside the Killarney golf course and the Castlerosse Hotel. The sale of Kenmare House in 1985 to Denis Kelleher marked the end of the Kenmare family's proprietary connection with Killarney after 450 years. A €7 million restoration was announced by Leo Varadkar in 2011. [1] [2]
Kenmare (Irish: Neidín, meaning 'the little nest') [8] [9] is a small town in the south of County Kerry, Ireland. The name Kenmare is the anglicised form of Ceann Mara, [8] meaning "head of the sea", referring to the head of Kenmare Bay. It is also a townland and civil parish. [9]
The Kenmare Manuscripts cite the children's education, Lady Kenmare's health and "an indignity which some envious characters under the sanction of the penal laws...mediated against (him)" [2] as possible reasons for this move. The 1760s saw them travel Europe, visiting London, Paris and Lille and returning to Killarney periodically throughout ...
It lies on the N22 road approximately midway between Tralee (10 miles or 17 km) and Killarney (9 miles or 15 km) and on the railway line connecting the two towns. Farranfore came into existence as a turnpike; a gate at the cross-roads in the village marked the boundary of the lands of the Earls of Kenmare.
It lies on the estuary of the River Sneem which expands here to Kenmare Bay. The N70 road runs through the town, which is approximately 22 kilometres (14 mi) west of Kenmare . While the 2022 census recorded a population of 386 people, [ 1 ] Sneem is located in a tourist area and the population increases during the summer months.
Modern Knowle West has an area of approximately 1.26 square miles (3.3 km 2), located on a plateau about 215 feet (66 m) above sea level, [note 1] south of the centre of Bristol, [19] between the districts of Knowle on the east, Whitchurch Park and Hengrove to the south, Hartcliffe and Bishopsworth to the west and Bedminster and Windmill Hill to the north. [20]