IE- Connemara, Co. Galway (Galway (ir. Contae na Gaillimhe))

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Kylemore abbey has something to offer everyone all year round; with thousands of visitors every year we're one of Ireland's most popular tourist attractions. Located in Connemara, just 1 hour from Galway City, off the main N59, Kylemore Abbey & Victorian Walled Garden is easily accessible from Galway, Mayo and Clare.

Set in the heart of the Connemara mountains is the Kylemore Abbey Estate, home of the Irish Benedictine Nuns. Visit the picturesque Abbey (under restoration), exhibition and enjoy a stroll to the beautiful Neo-Gothic Church (under restoration) and Mausoleum where original owners are buried; browse in the Craft/Retail Shop; view Kylemore Abbey pottery as it is produced in the Pottery Studio and sample our home cooked food in the Restaurant. Take a shuttle bus to Kylemore Abbey’s six-acre Victorian Walled Garden, the most significant walled garden in the West.
A visit to the West of Ireland is not complete without experiencing thebeauty and tranquillity that is Kylemore Abbey & Garden.

The monastery and the walled garden is open only for paying visitors.
Winter
November – February
10am – 4.30pm

Summer
March - October
9am – 7pm
 
Allgemeine Informationen/General information
The present Benedictine nuns of Kylemore Abbey have a long history, beginning at Brussels in 1598. This was the time following the suppression of religious houses in the British Isles when British Catholics left England and opened religious houses abroad.


A number of monasteries originated from one Benedictine house in Brussels, founded by Lady Mary Percy in 1598. Houses founded from Lady Mary’s house in Brussels were at Cambray in France (now Stanbrook in England) and at Ghent (now Oulton Abbey) in Staffordshire. Ghent in turn founded several Benedictine Houses, one of which was at Ypres.

Kylemore Abbey is the oldest of the Irish Benedictine Abbeys. The community of nuns, who have resided here since 1920, have a long history stretching back almost three hundred and forty years.
Founded in Ypres, Belgium, in 1665, the house was formally made over to the Irish nation in 1682.

The purpose of the abbey at Ypres was to provide an education and religious community for Irish women during times of persecution here in Ireland.



Down through the centuries, Ypres Abbey attracted the daughters of the Irish nobility, both as students and postulants, and enjoyed the patronage of many influential Irish families living in exile.

At the request of King James II the nuns moved to Dublin in 1688. However, they returned to Ypres following James’s defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. The community finally left Ypres after the Community the Abbey was destroyed in the early days of World War One.


The community first took refuge in England, and later in Co Wexford before eventually settling in Kylemore in December 1920. At Kylemore, the nuns reopened their international boarding school and established a day school for local girls. They also ran a farm and guesthouse; the guesthouse was closed after a devastating fire in 1959.
A section of the Abbey (the enclosure) is retained strictly for the nun’s use and is not open to the public; here the nuns devote themselves to their monastic life of prayer and hard work.

There are four rooms on display in the abbey and the remainder is occupied by the International Girl’s Boarding School.

Since the mid-70s, Kylemore Abbey Pottery, with its unique fuchsia design, has been a prominent feature of the Kylemore Abbey Craft Shop.
The fuchsia, also known as Deora Dé (the tears of God) can be seen in abundance in Connemara throughout the summer period.
The distinctive fuchsia design used in the Kylemore Abbey Pottery reproduces this drop-like flower, with its vibrant shadings of red and purple set in an aureole of green leaves.
The pottery we produce is crafted using time-honoured, traditional techniques.

The abbey is famous for its excellent restaurant and tea rooms.
 

St. Augustine Street
IE- Galway (Galway (ir. Contae na Gaillimhe))

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