Description
Gothic Church on the grounds of Kylemore Abbey or Castle, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland
Its fairy-tale history started in 1849, when Mitchell Henry, the son of a wealthy Manchester cotton merchant, married Margaret Vaughan and visited a Connemara that was just beginning to recover from the devastating effects of the potato famine a few years earlier. He was captivated by the scenery, and promised to build his wife a Gothic castle there, which he did in the years 1867-71.
The happy days he spent here with his wife and children came to an abrupt end with her sudden death in 1874, He then commissioned a lovely neo-Gothic church in her in the style of a fourteenth-century English Cathedral
