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Kylemore Abbey

Connemara, County Galway

A castle built for love, later home to Benedictine nuns.

Mitchell Henry, a wealthy doctor and politician, built Kylemore Castle in the 1860s for his wife Margaret, who had fallen in love with the spot on their honeymoon. She died of fever just a few years later, and he built a small Gothic church in her memory.

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When
Built 1860s
Where
53.5610, -9.8890
Group
Castles & abbeys

Visiting

Open daily, with a Victorian walled garden.

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