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2024 Plein Air Art Competition
The annual Draíocht ‘pleinair’ art competition will be held on Sunday 25th August 2024. This will be our sixth open air art competition and we are hoping for an ever
Adare Manor was the former seat of the Earls of Dunraven. The house was built in the early 19th century and retained some of the walls of the 17th-century structure. It is now a luxury resort hotel. The original house was a “calendar house”, which means a house that architecturally contains quantities that represent the numbers of days in a year, weeks in a year, months in a year and days in a week. It had 365 stained-glass windows and 52 chimneys.
Begun in 1832, construction provided work for the people from the village during the potato famine. In 1850 the family consulted architect Philip Charles Hardwick who “with much talent and judgment completed the south and west fronts, after his own designs, following the general plan as intended by the late Earl,” the Earl’s widow wrote. The initial phase of construction was completed under master mason, James Connolly. Along the top of the building an extract of psalm 127:1 is made from carved stone: “Except the Lord build the house, then labour is but lost that built it”.
Adare Manor house is set on a 840-acre (3.4 km2) estate and now operates as a five-star hotel, owned by J.P. McManus and features a magnificent 18 hole championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones Snr.
View the video here, which was produced for Adare Tidy Towns by Corbett Photography and Landyphoto.com)
The latest news from Adare
The annual Draíocht ‘pleinair’ art competition will be held on Sunday 25th August 2024. This will be our sixth open air art competition and we are hoping for an ever
Rory McIlroy has revealed he has dismissed a suggestion that he could be a playing captain in the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor. Keegan Bradley said he hopes to
Tenders have gone out for the long heralded Adare bypass which will knock an hour off journey times between Dublin and the south west. The 7k stretch is part of
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