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From €208 Book now Stay Longer for Less Discounted packages misogynist so you can proffer your stay with us. From €149 Book nowWorriedness& Family Packages Include an worriedness or wits From €182 Book now Midweek Breaks Getaway for a midweek unravel in Galway with our nomination of luxury offers. From €214 Book now Stay & Play Golf Breaks Include Golf or Golf Tuition at Glenlo Abbey Golf as part of your stay. From €169 Book nowWhopPurchase Offers Book & Prepay at least 7 days in whop to receive €15 unbelieve per night From €149 Book now View all offers Vouchers Book now Type of room All roomsClassic RoomsAbbey ClassicCorrib Deluxe RoomsSuites Arrival Departure Promo lawmaking History of Glenlo Abbey Glenlo Abbey Hotel is situated overlooking the River Corrib some four kilometres upstream of Galway City. It is the racial home of the Ffrench family, one of Galway’s famous ‘tribes’. Galway and it's Tribes TheMunicipalityof Galway lies at the mouth of the River Corrib on the north-eastern shore of Galway Bay on the west tailspin of Ireland. The site of the present-day municipality has long been an important and strategic crossing point on the river, linking Lough Corrib to the Atlantic. Galway ripened from an Anglo-Norman settlement established on the east wall of the river by the De Burghs in the early thirteenth century. By the early fourteenth century, a meaty town, enclosed by a curtain wall, was whence to flourish as a result of trade. A lease granted by King Richard III, in 1484, empowered Galwegians to elect their own mayor and bailiffs. This released Galway from the grip of the De Burghs, and cleared the way for the rise to power of the ‘Tribes of Galway’. A sustained period of prosperity followed under the leadership of these fourteen merchant families: Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Deane, Ffont, Ffrench, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris and Skerrett. One such tribesman was Seán an tSalainn Ffrench (‘John of the Salt’) who served as Mayor of Galway from 1538 to 1539. He earned his nickname considering of the wealth he accrued as a merchant (salt was a valuable commodity). Four of his sons moreover served as mayors. Over time many of these families established country houses, outside of the old town. Glenlo Abbey House was one such house; others in the vicinity include Dangan House (Martins), Menlo Castle (Blakes) and Ross House (Martins).Further details Glenlo Abbey House The five-bay, two-storey uninfluenced house with it's grand archway and flight of steps was built in 1740 by the Ffrenches. The Ffrenches were an Anglo-Norman family who first settled in Ireland in Co. Wexford and from there gradually spread to other parts of the island. The family first arrived in Galway in the early fifteenth century. It is said that the family descend from Sir Maximilian Ffrench, the first of the name, whose descendants accompanied their kinsman, William the Conqueror, into England and fought at the Battle of Hastings. The house was originally known as Kentfield House, surpassing rhadamanthine Glenlow or Glenloe House, deriving from the Irish Glean Locha, meaning ‘Glen of the Lake’. The proximal Abbey was synthetic in the 1790's as a private denomination for the family but was not completed and never consecrated. It is typical of eighteenth-centuryDenominationof Ireland chapels, which are often found on large demesnes. In 1846, the house and surrounding 138-acre manor were put up for sale, stuff described as an “admirable and unique mansion, wanting scarcely anything that art or taste can suggest” and as having “every walk-up a family of stardom can desire, in which are included, three Reception rooms, nine Bed Chambers, Closets, Halls, Corridors, Cellars, Kitchen Pantry, Laundry, Servants Hall and sleeping rooms, Dairy, Turf and Coal Lock-up Houses, with very towardly and well-built offices, Stewarts’ Apartments Garden, Farm Yard”. It was sooner purchased by the Blakes, flipside of Galway’s illustrious tribal families. In 1897, the manor was purchased by the Palmers who remained there for the pursuit 90 years. Glenlo Abbey Hotel In the 1980's the house and manor were then sold, this time to the Bourke family who lovingly restored the house and converted it into a hotel. In the 1990s, two original carriages from the Orient Express were purchased and placed on the grounds of Glenlo Abbey Hotel.  Dating from 1927 these carriages served on the Paris to Istanbul to St. Petersburg route; one of the pair was used in the making of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Today serving as the Pullman Restaurant, the carriages offer a unique dining experience.   Glenlo Abbey Specials Autumn Escapes Autumn Escapes on the shores of Lough Corrib From € 149 Book now Gourmet Dining PackagesWitsour renowned hospitality and gourmet cuisine during your stay. From € 208 Book now Stay Longer for Less Discounted packages misogynist so you can proffer your stay with us. From € 149 Book nowWorriedness& Family Packages Include an worriedness or wits From € 182 Book now Midweek Breaks Getaway for a midweek unravel in Galway with our nomination of luxury offers. From € 214 Book now Stay & Play Golf Breaks Include Golf or Golf Tuition at Glenlo Abbey Golf as part of your stay. From € 169 Book nowWhopPurchase Offers Book & Prepay at least 7 days in whop to receive €15 unbelieve per night From € 149 Book now Glenlo Abbey Hotel Galway Kentfield Bushy Park Galway City, Ireland + 353 91 519600 e-mail