Kylemore Abbey, County Galway, Republic of Ireland. Eire. This Benedictine monastery stands just outside the Connemara National Park. It was built a

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Kylemore Abbey, County Galway, Republic of Ireland. Eire. This Benedictine monastery stands just outside the Connemara National Park. It was built as a lavish family home in 1868 and converted to an abbey in 1920 by Belgian Benedictine nuns whose own abbey in Ypres, Belgium was destroyed in the First World War.

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