Revamped Kerry mansion to become visitor centre for region

A mansion undergoing a €7m refurbishment is to become the main visitor and interpretive centre for Killarney National Park and South Kerry.

Killarney House, once home to the landed Kenmare family and in recent decades, to the late Irish-American millionaire John McShain, had become semi-derelict in recent years.

Sr Pauline McShain, the only daughter of John and Mary McShain, who had gifted the house to the State in the late-1990s, had called for its restoration.