The Kylemore nuns

The view of Kylemore Abbey across the lake is one of the most romantic in Connemara. It was built in 1866 by Mitchell Henry, a London surgeon, who had first visited Kylemore on his honeymoon. His father, a Manchester textile merchant, died a few years later, leaving the fortune that allowed Henry to resign from the Middlesex Hospital and build a castle by the lake. But the Henrys were destined to enjoy Kylemore together for only seven years before Margaret died of Nile fever on an Egyptian holiday. A few hundred yards to the right of the abbey, hidden …