| Adare Manor | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival[1] |
| Town or city | Adare, County Limerick |
| Country | Ireland |
| Coordinates | 52°33′50″N 8°46′43″W / 52.563886°N 8.778573°W |
| Construction started | c. 1700 (original structure); 1832 (current structure) |
| Completed | 1862 |
| Renovated | 1988/89;[1][2] 2016/2017[3] |
| Client | Windham Henry Quin |
| Owner | J. P. McManus |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | James Pain and George Richard Pain, Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, Augustus Pugin, Philip Charles Hardwick |
Adare Manor is a manor house located on the banks of the River Maigue in the village of Adare, County Limerick, Ireland, the former seat of the Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl. The present house was built in the early 19th century, though retaining some of the walls of the 17th-century structure. It is now the Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort, a luxury hotel, and contains the Michelin-starred Oak Room restaurant.
Due to British control of Ireland at the time, all of the initial formal architects of Adare Manor were from England. However, the 3rd Earl of Dunraven wrote the following words of high praise towards the Irish stonemason, James Connolly, who made significant architectural contributions: "the greater portion of the building, and that the boldest in conception and most picturesque in effect, was designed by an amateur, not a single drawing having been furnished by an architect; and a still larger portion was erected without the employment of either builder or clerk of the works; everything was carried on for twenty-one years solely under the superintendence of that remarkable man..."[4]
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- ^ Adare, Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin; Dunraven, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin (2 August 2012). Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D. D. Home. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139381918. ISBN 978-1-108-05297-9.