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 the 1840s, he and his wife Margaret settled there when they bought the land surrounding the Abbey. He entered into politics and served as the MP of County Galway from 1871 to 1885. Samuel Ussher Roberts helped James Franklin Fuller construct the castle. Beginning in 1867, the structure of the castle required a total of 100 men and four years to complete. The castle comprised around seventy chambers, a floor area of over 40,000 square feet, and a main wall that was about two to three feet thick. After Henry went back to England, the Abbey continued on his property. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester purchased the castle in 1903, and they lived there for a while before being forced to sell the property due to gambling debts. After being compelled to escape Ypres during World War I, nuns bought the Abbey fortress and its surrounding territories. The Abbey and the University of Notre Dame in the US have been working together since 2015. Notre Dame students attend curriculums held at the abbey, which was recently refurbished by the university [Information Credit : Kylemore_Abbey, Wikipedia ; Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylemore_Abbey ] [Image : Kylemore Abbey, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland ; Image-Credit : Philippe Bonnaire ; Pexels; Image-Source-Link : https://www.pexels.com/photo/kylemore-abbey-connemara-county-galway-ireland-6354317/ (Please Relate to Source-Image URLs for More Usage Property and Licenses)] #Architecture
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