In Connemara, County Galway, Ireland, a Benedictine monastery known as Kylemore Abbey was established in 1920. The English Benedictine Congregation has owned the monastery since 2022. It was established for Benedictine Nuns who had left Belgium during World War I. For the family of affluent London doctor Mitchell Henry, whose ancestors worked in the textile industry of Manchester, England, Kylemore Castle was constructed in 1868. After visiting Ireland on their romantic getaway in the middle of ... (Read More)