Category:Old Monastery Hostel, Letterfrack
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This object is indexed in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage of Ireland under the registration number 30329009
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former meeting house and monastery of the Christian Brothers, now used as a hostel in Letterfrack, County Galway, Ireland  | |||||
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English: Old Monastery Hostel was built by the Quakers James and Mary Ellis in 1849 to provide relief to the famine-stricken population in the area. The building was sold in 1857 and eventually purchased by the Archbishop of Tuam for the Christian Brothers who used it as a monastery close to the Industrial School for boys opened in 1886. The school and the monastery were dissolved in 1974. Later the buildings were sold to Connemara West, a local development group, who converted this into a hostel, named “Old Monastery Hostel”. (See Breandan O Scanaill, Historical Sketchbook: Listed Buildings of Connemara, Volume I, pp. 68–70.)
Media in category "Old Monastery Hostel, Letterfrack"
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Letterfrack Old Monastery Hostel 2018 09 04.jpg 3,416 × 2,173; 6.47 MB
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Letterfrack Old Monastery Hostel W 2018 09 04.jpg 3,469 × 1,786; 3.99 MB
