Kylemore
Abbey - Ireland - 2014
A hunting lodge originally stood on this site in the Connemara district near Galway.
Mitchell Henry, an English Earl and doctor, whose family was invoved in textile manufacturing in Manchester, England,
built this abbey for his wife, Margaret. It was finished in 1870.
While on a holiday in Egypt in 1874, the earl's wife, Margaret, fell ill with dysentary and died.
In 1920, the Irish Benedictine nuns took over the abbey when they were displaced from Belgium during World War I.
They ran it as a boarding and day school up until 2010.
Angelica Huston, the American actress, was once a border here.
Mitchell and Margaret Henry's mausoleum.
In the grounds of the estate there are magnificent Victorian walled-gardens.
Occupying more than 6 acres, it is a very neat and impressive sight.
There were once 21 glass-houses.
Banana trees growing in the glass-house.
The head-gardener's cottage.
Peat
A good crop of rhubarb.
A hunting lodge originally stood on this site in the Connemara district near Galway.
Mitchell Henry, an English Earl and doctor, whose family was invoved in textile manufacturing in Manchester, England,
built this abbey for his wife, Margaret. It was finished in 1870.
While on a holiday in Egypt in 1874, the earl's wife, Margaret, fell ill with dysentary and died.
In 1920, the Irish Benedictine nuns took over the abbey when they were displaced from Belgium during World War I.
They ran it as a boarding and day school up until 2010.
Angelica Huston, the American actress, was once a border here.
Mitchell and Margaret Henry's mausoleum.
In the grounds of the estate there are magnificent Victorian walled-gardens.
Occupying more than 6 acres, it is a very neat and impressive sight.
There were once 21 glass-houses.
Banana trees growing in the glass-house.
The head-gardener's cottage.
Peat
A good crop of rhubarb.
