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An 8 bay three storey country house, completed in c.1790 for the Knights of Glin (a hereditary title held by the FitzGerald families since the early C14) whose original seat was the old castle about a mile away to the east Link. The house has full-height curved bows to the end bays of the front elevation, and has a 16 bay two-storey wing to the west (originally with a thatched roof) built in the late seventeenth century/early eighteenth century. Colonel John FitzGerald, financed much of the main house, which was built in phases, with the interior plasterwork attributed to an unknown Cork master that resembles the work of Charles Thorpe or Michael Stapleton. The staircase is almost unique in Ireland that may echo Adam's staircase at Mellerstain in Berwickshire, Scotland. This country house remains of considerable social and historic significance to the village of Glin.