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The K Club - Ireland - Luxury Golf Resort

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The K Club is centred on one of Ireland's best-known properties – Straffan House. Over its long history, it has been the home of Anglo-Norman invaders, rebellious aristocrats, a legendary wine family, the visionary importer behind the Mercedes and Volkswagen franchises, a James Bond movie producer, a property tycoon and even an Iranian general.


With such a colourful history, it is hardly surprising that what sets the K Club apart from other hotels is character – a character now available for all to enjoy since Dr Michael Smurfit's Jefferson Smurfit Group bought the house and converted it into The K Club, voted Best European Resort 2005 by the readers of he US Condé Nast Traveler magazine.

The origins of Straffan House go back to the year 550 AD. After the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, Straffan was granted by Strongbow to Maurice Fitzgerald, whose eldest son passed it to his younger brother, Gerald, an ancestor of the Duke of Leinster. Richard the Lionheart's brother, who later became King John of England and signed the Magna Carta in 1215, subsequently confirmed this grant.

 

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