Upper Crust in

05/04/2025: Very beautiful building, impeccably preserved with beautiful gardens and a magnificent view of the lake. It inspires tranquility and relaxation.

04/04/2025: The staff were very friendly and helpful. It is beautiful from the walk up. The gardens are neat to visit, and you can choose to walk there and enjoy a waterfall en route or take a shuttle. The gardens were the highlight as you can visit the houses and experience how it would have been used in times past to grow food for the estate and entertain guests. The abbey itself was fine. It is new construction (fire) and you are limited to the first floor. They did an okay job with the restoration but it was obviously not a match for the photos they had listed in the spaces. Not getting the chance to go upstairs was a disappointment, so it felt like too far of a drive from Galway to make it worth the time. The short version is, it was a great drive with beautiful views, the photo of the abbey across the lake is neat, the gardens are neat, but absent those things we agreed it was not worth the hours of our vacation to visit.