Adare Manor

Adare Manor
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 / 52.563886; -8.778573
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]