The Kylemore Trust has switched on the lights of the 19th-century Kylemore Abbey as part of a year-long program of events to celebrate 100 years of the Benedictine Order of nuns in Kylemore Abbey ...

As Kylemore's retired abbess Mother Máire Hickey reflected, a group of Benedictine nuns, known as the "Irish Dames of Ypres," left the Royal Abbey of the Immaculate Conception in Belgium in 1914 ...

Notre Dame announces Kylemore Abbey will be a new Irish campus ... Justice Peter Kelly and Mother Abbess Máire Hickey were also added to the university’s Roll of Honor at an honorary degree ...

Today there is a community of 14 nuns at Kylemore. In 1993 a visitor centre was developed to welcome visitors to the abbey, garden and Gothic church, and to serve as an introductory point to the area.

Step back in time when you visit Kylemore Abbey, a beautiful, large estate located within County Galway, only an hour away from Galway City.

New €2.9m Kylemore Abbey visitor experience opens to ... and allows us to share our beautiful home with all who come to visit,” says Sr Máire Hickey OSB, Mother Abbess of the community. ...

WHEN TWO Indian princesses were sent to school at Connemara’s Kylemore Abbey, a local priest expressed his concern to the abbess about the effect they might have on the other pupils. That was ...

Notre Dame, America's top Catholic university, has agreed to create a spiritual centre with the Benedictine community at Kylemore Abbey in Co Galway. Thursday, 10 July 2025 ePaper ...

A drop in the number of nuns entering the Benedictine Order has forced the prestigious Kylemore Abbey School in Connemara, Co Galway to shut its doors.

A DROP in the number of nuns entering the Benedictine Order has forced the prestigious Kylemore Abbey School in Connemara, Co Galway to announce it will shut its doors.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) The University of Notre Dame plans to dedicate a center in Ireland that offers programs in a wide variety of academic disciplines.The Notre Dame Center at Kylemore Abbey in ...

A Benedictine monastery at Kylemore Abbey has won the Public Choice Award for architecture. The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) Public Choice Award for 2025 is a unique ...