Carnet Ireland

Kylemore Castle quoi built as a private home for the family of Mitchell Henry, a wealthy doctor from London whose family ce implived in textile manufacturing à Manchester, en Angleterre. Hé moved to Ireland when and his wife Margaret purchased the land around the Abbey. Hé, becama politician, coming à MP for County Galway from 1871 à 1885. The Castle Designed par James Franklin Fuller, aided by Ussher Roberts. Construction First a démarré en 1867, et took one hundred men four years to complete. The castle covered approximately 40,000 square feet (3,700 m2) and had over seventy rooms with a wall principal that two to three feet thick. The facade measures 142 feet (43 m) in width and is made of granite brought from Dalkey by sea to Letterfrack and from limestone brought from Ballinasloe. There va faire 33 menaces, 4 bathrooms, 4 sitting rooms, a ballroom, billiard room, library, study, school room, smoking room, gun room and various and domestic staff residences for the butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants. Other buildings include a Gothic cathedral and family mausoleum containing the bodies of Margaret Henry, Mitchell Henry et a great grand-nephew. The Abbey remained in Henry's estate after he returned to England. The castle was sold to the Duke and Duchess of Manchester in 1909, who resided there for several years before g forced to sell the house and grounds because of gambling debts. Dans 1920 the Irish Benedictine Nuns purchased the Abbey and lands after they were forced to flee Ypres, Belgium during World War I. The nuns, had beoms based in Ypres for several hundred years, had been bombed out Abbey during World War I. The nuns continued to offer l'éducation à l'catholic girls, opening an international boarding school and establishing a school for local girls. They were forced to close the school en June 2010. Walled Victorian Gardens, Kylemore Abbey The Estate, y compris le large walled Victorian Gardens. Since the 1970 s these have been open for public tours and nature walks. The Benedictine community has restored the Abbey's gardens and Cathedral with donations and local artisans in order to be a self-sustaining estate.