Kilkenny Club

Kilkenny, now a private house and once the clubhouse of The Kilkenny Club, from which the community takes its name

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Kilkenny Club is a small unincorporated community and tidal station in Bryan County, Georgia.[1] Situated on the southeast end of Kilkenny Road and the western shore of Kilkenny Creek, its nearest city is Richmond Hill. Kilkenny Club is the location of Kilkenny, a plantation house listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[2]

The community takes its name from The Kilkenny Club, a seven-member consortium who took over the plantation and its house in the late 1880s to host summer fishing vacations. The house (originally built in 1845) became the consortium's clubhouse, and up to 30 people at a time were invited to stay there. By 1913 when the property was sold to a Mr. R. C. Paschall, the house itself was in considerable disrepair. It was later restored as a private home following Henry Ford's acquisition of the property in 1930.[3][4] The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in February 1979.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Georgia Coastal Regional Commission (30 September 2010). The Georgia Coast Saltwater Paddle Trail, p. 47. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Nomination Form: Kilkenny (ID 79000700)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  3. ↑ Edwards, Margaret and Butler, Inez (1939). "The Story of Kilkenny". The Herald, Volume 5, p. 26. Greenfield Village & Henry Ford Museum
  4. ↑ Sullivan, Buddy (2006). Richmond Hill, p. 53. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0738543039

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