Kilgobbin House Explained

Kilgobbin House is a country house in Adare, County Limerick, Ireland.

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. Richard's father, Windham Quin, gave him Kilgobbin, where the couple lived until Quin inherited Adare Manor.[2] In the 1980s, Thady Wyndham-Quin, 7th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, sold Adare Manor, and Kilgobbin returned to being the family seat. The peerages became extinct on the death of the 7th Earl in 2011.[3]

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52.5833°N -54°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kilgobbin House, County Limerick. National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. 27 September 2016.
  2. Book: Connolly, Sybil. In an Irish Garden. Dillon. Helen. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1986. 1898801193. London. 51.
  3. Web site: Earl of Dunraven. Irish Independent . 8 February 2016. 27 March 2011.