Kilgobbin House

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]

  1. ^ "Kilgobbin House, County Limerick". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
  2. ^ Connolly, Sybil; Dillon, Helen (1986). In an Irish Garden. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 51. ISBN 1898801193.
  3. ^ "Earl of Dunraven". Irish Independent. 27 March 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2016.