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2 unusual facts about Kylemore Abbey


Kylemore

Kylemore Abbey, a Benedictine monastery on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland

Kylemore Abbey

In 1920 the Irish Benedictine Nuns purchased the Abbey castle and lands after they were forced to flee Ypres, Belgium during World War I. Previously the nuns, who had been based in Ypres for several hundred years, had been bombed out of their Abbey during World War I.


Margaret Vaughan

Her husband Mitchell Henry built a beautiful memorial church about a mile from Kylemore Castle on the shore of the lake.


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