"Shelburne Lodge is the oldest house in Kenmare and has all the style and attention that would be expected from Tom and Maura Foley, proprieters of the dashing restaurant, Packies."
Georgina Campbell - Georgina Campbell Jameson Guide

Shelburne Lodge (c. mid-18th century) was the original house in the Kenmare area of the Petty - Fitzmaurice family William Petty Fitzmaurice (1737-1805) known as Lord Shelburne, commissioned the design of the town of Kenmare which was completed in 1775. Lord Shelburne was Prime Minister of Great Britain from July 1782 to February 1783 and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris 1783 which brought the conflict between Britain and America to an end.