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Zeitgeist: Providing a place for women to find peace and healing in Carraroe
Despite the housing crisis, novelist and single parent Betsy Cornwell has managed to establish a childcare-inclusive retreat in Connemara where women can write, make art, or simply take a break
Betsy Cornwell was scrolling through property listings one night in March 2020 when she came across an old knitting factory that had been turned into a house. The long white cottage lay on the shore of Loch an Mhuilinn, a few minutes’ walk from the village of Carraroe in Connemara, and had been on the market for years.
A self-employed single parent, Cornwell thought it was the kind of place she could only dream of ...
