For those you planning to visit Galway and Connemara, we are delighted to announce today that our parent company will lease all the tourist-related elements of the beautiful Kylemore Abbey, Connemara from January. This includes the visitors centre, pottery studio, craft shop, restaurant and Victorian walled garden. If you haven’t already heard of Kylemore Abbey lets just say its one of Irelands most beautiful and popular tourist attractions, judge for yourself…. http://kylemoreabbey.com/ Best of all, Barnacles customers will undoubtedly benefit from discounts and good deals at Kylemore Abbey in the new year.If you are interested here’s a little history……Kylemore Abbey, in its famously spectacular location in Connemara, is the oldest of the Irish Benedictine Abbeys. The Benedictine Order, who have resided here since 1920, have a long history stretching back over three hundred and forty years, originally founded in Ypres, Belgium, in 1665.
The building itself is one of the great baronial-style castles remaining in Ireland, built between 1863 and 1868 for a Manchester politician named Mitchell Henry. Its six-acre Victorian walled garden, created by Henry in tandem with the building of Kylemore Castle (now Kylemore Abbey) is one of Ireland's finest gardens. Other important features of Kylemore Abbey include the neo-Gothic church, built between 1877 and 1881 in memory of Henry's wife, which is a miniature replica of Norwich Cathedral, complete with a crypt.
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