Sacred Fixer Upperer

Fixer upperer, renovator's delight, builder's hobby home. These are all common expressions for a place that needs an extra dose of something special to restore or keep it's original charm and glory.

Kylemore Abbey, county Galway, ticks all those boxes but keeping it splendid in all it's glory might just demand a little more effort that your average homemaker can muster.

Perhaps this is exactly how the wealthy industrialist Dr. Mitchell Henry felt when he abandoned the family home he built and headed back to his native England.

The Benedictine nuns nuns who purchased the residence in the early 1900's clearly have help from a higher power and to this day the abbey is being continually renewed.


Photo: Robert Rath, 'Sacred Fixer Upperer', 1/125 f/8 ISO160 200mm