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Kylemore Abbey

Mausoleum
Kylemore Abbey
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Connemara - Kylemore Abbey - Mausoleum The wife of Henry Mitchell, who built Kylemore Abbey as a house for his wife, was buried here when she suddenly died of the Nile Virus.
Connemara - Kylemore Abbey - Mausoleum The wife of Henry Mitchell, who built Kylemore Abbey as a house for his wife, was buried here when she suddenly died of the Nile Virus. · Photo: Joseph Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0
Connemara - Kylemore Abbey - Mausoleum
Connemara - Kylemore Abbey - Mausoleum · Photo: Joseph Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0

What is recorded here

Perhaps a visitor to Kylemore Abbey in Lemnaheltia came to pay respects to Margaret Henry and found themselves thinking of a small kindness at home. They would leave with a firm intention to say thank you, while they still had the chance.

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Freestanding gable-fronted mausoleum, dated 1874. Rendered barrel-vault roof, with cast-iron cross finial to gable-front on tooled limestone base and gable copings supported on limestone brackets. English bond yellow brick walls on limestone plinth having square-headed bays to side elevations and limestone-capped buttresses. Blocked round-headed recessed doorways to gables with brick surrounds and voussoirs, yellow brick fill to rear recess and lined and ruled render to front, latter having tooled marble memorial plaque. Square-headed ventilation openings to side elevations within recesses. Decorative cast-iron railings surround structure.
This small and relatively modest structure was built to house the remains of Margaret Henry, wife of Mitchell Henry who built Kylemore Castle. Its simple design is enhanced by the unusual yellow brick walls with their well proportioned recesses and gable finial. The mausoleum also houses the cremated remains of Mitchell Henry who died in 1910.

The story behind this place

This small and relatively modest structure was built to house the remains of Margaret Henry, wife of Mitchell Henry who built Kylemore Castle.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30402311

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