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Bessborough House is a large Georgian house near Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, and was the family seat of the Ponsonby dynasty, Earls of Bessborough. Originally built in the 1740s for the 1st Earl of Bessborough. It was designed by Francis Bindon. The house was gutted by fire in February 1923, during the Irish Civil War. However, it was rebuilt in late 1929 for The 9th Earl of Bessborough, who served as the 14th Governor General of Canada in the early 1930s. The 9th Lord Bessborough sold the house in the late 1930s.

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rdfs:label	Bessborough House (en)
rdfs:comment	Bessborough House is a large Georgian house near Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, and was the family seat of the Ponsonby dynasty, Earls of Bessborough. Originally built in the 1740s for the 1st Earl of Bessborough. It was designed by Francis Bindon. The house was gutted by fire in February 1923, during the Irish Civil War. However, it was rebuilt in late 1929 for The 9th Earl of Bessborough, who served as the 14th Governor General of Canada in the early 1930s. The 9th Lord Bessborough sold the house in the late 1930s. (en)
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location	Piltown
dcterms:subject	Palladian architecture in Ireland Buildings and structures in County Kilkenny
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Palladian architecture in Ireland Buildings and structures in County Kilkenny Earl of Bessborough Limestone Governor General of Canada Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough Francis Bindon Palladian architecture Irish Civil War Piltown Teagasc Cromwellian invasion of Ireland Department of Agriculture (Ireland) dbr:John_Ponsonby_(1608-1678)
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namesake	Elizabeth Folliott, wife of Sir John Ponsonby (en)
architect	Francis Bindon
architectural style	Palladian architecture
building type	House (en)
current tenants	Kildalton Agricultural College (en)
developer	Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough
floor count	3 (xsd:integer)
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location country	Ireland (en)
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owner	Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
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has abstract	Bessborough House is a large Georgian house near Piltown, Co. Kilkenny, and was the family seat of the Ponsonby dynasty, Earls of Bessborough. Originally built in the 1740s for the 1st Earl of Bessborough. It was designed by Francis Bindon. The house was gutted by fire in February 1923, during the Irish Civil War. However, it was rebuilt in late 1929 for The 9th Earl of Bessborough, who served as the 14th Governor General of Canada in the early 1930s. The 9th Lord Bessborough sold the house in the late 1930s. Kildalton Castle and estate were owned by the Dalton Family, and was awarded to Colonel , one of the leaders of the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland. The Oblate Fathers who established a seminary there in 1941, over the following 30 years some 360 were ordained for the order there, they would study philosophy at UCD and theology at the Our Lady's Scholasticate in Bessbrough. Bessborough House was sold by the Oblates in 1971 to the Department of Agriculture and was opened in 1980 as Kildalton Agricultural College. (en)
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building start date	1744
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architect	Francis Bindon
architectural style	Palladian architecture
developer	Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough
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owner	Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) Earl of Bessborough List of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland Francis Bindon List of Catholic seminaries Piltown
is significant buildings of	Francis Bindon
is former seat of	Earl of Bessborough
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