The Benedictine Nuns and Kylemore Abbey

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Deirdre Raftery. The Benedictine Nuns and Kylemore Abbey

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BENEDICTINE NUNS

& KYLEMORE ABBEY

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the foundation: Dame Margaret Markham, Dame Mary Lawson, Dame Anne Neville and Dame Susan Fletcher.36 They arrived in Dublin in late September 1687 and took possession of the little convent in Great Ship Street which had been acquired for them by Tyrconnell.37 In 1689, they were joined by the Irish Dames from Ypres: Lady Abbess Butler and Dames Barbara Philpott and Placida Holmes.38

Portrait of Lady Abbess Mary Joseph Butler, 3rd Abbess of Ypres (1686–1723).

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