Kylemore Abbey, Co Galway

Kylemore Abbey, County Galway is an intensely romantic place, an enchanted fairy-tale castle in the neo-Gothic style that stands dramatically at the foot of a barren mountain in a remote and beautiful part of Connemara - its numerous battlemented and machicolated towers and turrets reflected in the waters of the lake below. For years this amazing house, now a convent has been the most admired building in the West of Ireland. The castle was built between 1863 and 1868.