IRELAND | Friday, 31 August 2007 | Views [395]
A view of Kylemore Abbey, built in the 19th Century for a wealthy English business man who spent his honeymoon in Connemara and fell in love with the place. It took 12 years to build and he kept it asecret from his wife the whole time. Finally he unveiled his surprise and the family moved in, but 2 months later the wife died of a mysterious illness. A few weeks after that, both his daughters were killed in a freak horse riding accident. So he sold it to the nuns and went back to England a broken man, thinking the place was cursed. It is now an ultra-exclusive boarding school
