For sale: the Kilkenny estate that inspired the ballad The Last Rose of Summer
Published on: Saturday 25 May 2019
Being the place that inspired Ireland’s best-known 19th-century song is some claim to fame, but it is one that Jenkinstown House can rightfully make. Thomas Moore, the bard, wrote The Last Rose of Summer while staying at the Co Kilkenny house. Sir John Stevenson would later add the melody.Moore was
