「Lake Walk Kylemore Abbey, formerly Kylemore Castle, is named after the Kylemore Valley.
The original estate stretched over 12 townlands. Today it spans 5: Lettershask, Pollacappul, Addergoole, Curraunvuggaun, and Mweelin. A townland, like a fountain, is an old geographical land division still in use. The name is a valuable part of our Irish heritage, referring to a geographical feature, a historical event, or even a local legend of the area. Castle townland names were standardized and anglicized in the 19th century by the British Ordnance Survey. The townland of Kylemore, from Coill Mór translating to Big Wood, was never part of the estate. Mitchell Henry adopted the name and reforested the valley.」
「ヴィクトリアン・ワールド」展示エリアのようであった。 A New Beginning for an Ancient Order
The Benedictine nuns welcome you to their homeat Kylemore Abbey.
Since 1920 our community of monastic women has lived and prayed here according to the Rule of St.Benedict,while preserving the beauty and heritage of this place、 educating generations of young women, welcoming visitors and creating employment.
Today,after 100 years at Kylemore we have embarked on the most important and ambitious building project in our 400-year history: ・a new monastery and purpose-built home for the growing community of Benedictine nuns ・residential guest accommodation for pilgrisms and visitors to share the sacred of their lives through short courses and retreats.
Today our community of nuns live,work and pray in several temporary locations across the estateーwith no communal monastic home.
With our new monastery we will at last have a place for our contemplative mission where we can invite others to share in our living tradition of faith and spirituality at Kylemore.
In our spitit of Benedictine hospitality, we look forward to welcoming those seeking a place of reflection, peace, solace and tranquillity.
The Benedictine nuns of Kylemore Abbey have a long history,
beginning at Brussels in 1598.
In the late 1500S , following religious suppression, many Catholics left England and
opened monastic houses in Europe、A number of monasteries originated from one Benedictine house in BrusseIs, founded by Lady Mary Percy in 1598.
This included one at Ypres in Belgium in 1665.Through the centuries, Ypres Abbey attracted the daughters of lrish nobility, as students and postulants、The Abbey enjoyed the patronage of influential Irish families living in exile and wa formally made over to the lrish nation in 1682. Known as The lrish Dames Of Ypres, the Benedictine nuns moved to Dublin in 1688 at
the request of King James Ⅱ but returned to Ypres following James's defeat at the BattIe of the Boyne in 1690.
「イーペルのアイルランド人修道女たち(The Irish Dames of Ypres)」として知られるこの 修道女たちは、1688年、国王ジェームズ2世の要請によりダブリンへ移転しましたが、 1690年のボイン川の戦いでジェームズが敗れた後、再びイーペルに戻ることとなりました。】
After more than two centuries in Ypres, their Abbey was destroyed during world war 1 , and the nuns fled as refugees first to EngIand,
later to Wexford before eventually settling in Kylemore in December 1920.
At Kylemore, the nuns established an international boarding school and day school for girls. They ran a farm and guesthouse; restored the ruined Victorian Walled Gardens and theNeo-Gothic Church, and established craft and tourism enterprises.
In 2010 , the School was closed and since then the Benedictine nuns have developed
welcoming thousands of visitors to their shared home.
Today, Kylemore Abbey is a registered charity (CHY 18550 / CRN 20071394 ) and all
income from tourism and philanthropy funds Kylemore as a non-profit organisation.