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Browne, Viscount Kenmare

• References:
  • KENMARE in [Burkes Peerage, 1929]
  • GROSVENOR in [Burkes Irish, 1976]

  • Kenmare papers, [PRO.NI] D/4151.
  • Kenmare papers, Research Library, Muckross House, nr Killarney, Co.Kerry.

  • The Kenmare Manuscripts, ed. Edward MacLysaght, Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1942, [SOG] IR/G 33, [NAI] RR, [KCL] RR.

Sir Valentine Browne, 3rd Baronet, and 1st Viscount Kenmare,
of Catholic family, of in and around Killarney, Co.Kerry [the Brownes succeeded to the estates of MacCarthy Mor],
born 1638, succ as Baronet 1640,
Jacobite supporter, cr 1st Viscount Kenmare by exiled James II 1689
(the name comes from Kenmare Castle, nr Hospital, E Co.Limerick, NOT from Kenmare, Co.Kerry),
attainted after final fall of James in 1691, estates forfeit 1691,
died 1694, age 56 yrs,
had issue:

Nicholas Browne, 2nd Viscount Kenmare,
born est c.1670,
Jacobite supporter, attainted, estates forfeit,
succ 1694,
died in exile in Ghent, Belgium, Apr 1720, age est c.50 yrs,
had issue:

1. Hon. Frances Browne [Fanny],
   mar Edward Herbert, of Muckross [a Protestant, born 1693] and had issue,
   Edward became the agent for the Browne estates during the minority of the 4th Viscount 1736-47.

   
   

2. Valentine Browne, 3rd Viscount Kenmare,
   of Molahiffe, Co.Kerry, born 1695,
   succ 1720, recovered the family estates 1720,
   patron of Aodhagán Ó Rathaille,
   mar 1720 to Honora Butler,
   rebuilt Kenmare House, Killarney, Co.Kerry, 1726 (building originally 17th cent.) [Irish Country Houses],
   died 1736, age 41 yrs,
   had issue:
   1. Thomas Browne, 4th Viscount Kenmare,
      born 1726, succ 1736,
      the Brownes remained Catholic right through the Penal Times and still managed to hold on to their property,
      had issue:
      1. Valentine Browne, 1st Earl of Kenmare,
         built 35 N Great Georges St, Dublin, 1784 (now the James Joyce Cultural Centre).

Exact relationship not yet identified:

Valentine Browne, of Dublin, had issue:

1. Margaret Browne, only dau,
   mar 1761 to Nicholas Lawless, 1st Baron Cloncurry and had issue.

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• Earls of Kenmare

• The Earls of Kenmare built the late 19th cent. (Elizabethan revival) Killarney House, Killarney, Co.Kerry.
• Title extinct 1952. Killarney House now gone.