The family lived in Mountjoy Square in Dublin, then moved out to Mount Anville in Clonskeagh to a site subsequently named "Knockrabo", where they cultivated a peach orchard, and to Fitzwilliam Place where a town-brick neo-gothic oratory was added (and can still be seen from Leeson Street).
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He came from a noted legal family: his grandfather, Gerald Fitzgibbon was a Queen's Counsel and Master in Chancery and his father, also Gerald Fitzgibbon, was a Lord Justice of the pre-independence Irish Court of Appeal: along with Christopher Palles and Hugh Holmes, the elder Fitzgibbon was credited with making the Court of Appeal a tribunal whose judgements are still quoted with respect today.