Despite being among the more recent inhabitants of the Kylemore Estate, the Kylemore Connemara Pony Herd have become central to daily life in Kylemore. Their friendly, mothering nature, calm disposition, and natural adaptiveness to the Connemara landscape encapsulates so much of what Kylemore Abbey represents, that as represented in Gemma’s watercolour set against the 12 Bens, has seen the Connemara Pony Herd become essential Characters of Kylemore.
