Mount Trenchard House is an Irish stately home located near Foynes, County Limerick, overlooking the River Shannon.
The current Mount Trenchard House was built in the late 1770s by the Anglo-Irish Rice family, who were major landowners in County Limerick.
[5] The house remained the seat of the Spring Rice family for 175 years, although its surrounding estate was gradually reduced in size.
In 1894, the house was used as the meeting place for the founders of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, of which Lord Monteagle was one.
[6] During the Irish War of Independence, Mount Trenchard was used as a safe house by IRA fighters, looked after by Hon.