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Built by Mitchell Henry (1826-1911) as a present to his wife. Kylemore Abbey clears from the early mountain mist revealing the shores of Kylemore Lough. After The sudden death of his wife and daughter, Henry left Kylemore and the castle was sold. It became an Abbey when Benedictine nuns fleeing from Belgium during World War 1, sought refuge here. The nuns now run the abbey as a select girl’s boarding school.