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The awarded family seat of the Viscounts Powerscourt, the estate has been owned by the Slazenger family, founders and former owners of the Slazenger sporting goods business, since 1961. It is a popular tourist attraction, and includes Powerscourt Golf Club , an Avoca Handweavers restaurant, and an Autograph Collection Hotel .
The townhouse enabled him and his family to stay there when they were visiting from their Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow. The house was designed by Robert Mack and dates from between 1771 and 1774, and has been characterised as the "last-gasp Palladianism on a grand scale on a narrow street". The court at the rear of the ...
Viscount Powerscourt (/ ˈ p ɔːr z k ɔːr t / PORZ-kort [1]) is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland, each time for members of the Wingfield family. It was created first in 1618 for the Chief Governor of Ireland, Richard Wingfield. However, this creation became extinct on his death in 1634.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
Powers is a brand of Irish whiskey produced by the Irish Distillers subsidiary of Pernod Ricard. Historically a single pot still whiskey, the flagship Powers Gold Label brand was the first Irish whiskey ever to be bottled. [1] Powers Gold Label was the best-selling whiskey in Ireland. [2]
After a lawsuit with John Power, Sir Marcus and Lady Catharine retained the Power property, and Sir Marcus was raised into the Peerage of Ireland by creating him Viscount Tyrone in 1720. After the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he was further elevated in 1746 as Earl of Tyrone (the same name of title as that of his father-in-law, but a new creation).
Map showing principal Irish surnames at the commencement of the 17th century. Clans of Ireland is a modern organization that was started in 1989 and has eligibility criteria for surnames to be included on their register of Irish clans. This includes that the family or clan can trace their ancestry back to before 1691 which is generally ...
Power d. 1483: Gerald FitzGerald of Decies: James Butler d. 1487 of Polestown: Sabh Kavanagh: Piers Power: unknown FitzGerald: Piers 8th Earl 1467–1539: Margaret FitzGerald c. 1473 – 1542: Richard Power 1st Baron d. 1538} Catherine Butler: James 13th Earl of Desmond d. 1558: Piers 2nd Baron 1522–1544: John 3rd Baron c. 1530 – 1592 ...