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The first abbey built in Ireland was Mellifont Abbey, founded by Saint Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh in 1142. Currently active abbeys Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea , Republic of Ireland (Trappist)
Mellifont Abbey (Irish: An Mhainistir Mhór, literally 'the Big Monastery'), was a Cistercian abbey located close to Drogheda in County Louth, Ireland. It was the first abbey of the order to be built in Ireland. In 1152, it hosted the Synod of Kells-Mellifont. After its dissolution in 1539, the abbey became a private manor house.
The first Cistercian Abbey was founded at Mellifont, County Louth in 1142. [2] St Malachy made arrangements that young aspirant Irish men who want to become Cistercians should be trained in St Bernard’s own monastery of Clairvaux or one of its daughter houses. [citation needed]
Portglenone Abbey Church * Cistercian monks, O.C.S.O. founded 1948 from Baltinglass Abbey, Co Waterford; extant Abbey of Our Lady of Bethlehem, Portglenone; Portmore Monastery Ballinderry early monastic site, founded 6th century by St Lua; St Lua known in Scotland as St Moluag Laloo; Lann Lua; La Lu: Portmuck 'Abbey' Cistercian monks
Old Mellifont Abbey – Tullyallen, Drogheda, County Louth – Ireland's first Cistercian abbey. Ormonde Castle – Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary – 1560s Elizabethan manor house; Patrick Pearse's Cottage – County Galway; Parke's Castle – County Leitrim; Portumna Castle – Portumna, County Galway
Cellach of Armagh, the "Coarb Pádraig", was present and recognised with the new title as Archbishop of Armagh, which was given the Primacy of Ireland. Mellifont Abbey, was a Cistercian abbey located close to Drogheda in today's County Louth. It was the first abbey of the order to be built in Ireland. In 1152, it hosted the Synod of Kells ...
Mount St. Joseph Abbey is an abbey of the Trappist branch of the Cistercians located in County Offaly, near Roscrea, County Tipperary in Ireland.. The abbey was founded in 1878 by a group of 32 monks from Mount Melleray Abbey, County Waterford, a number of years earlier Arthur John Moore MP of County Tipperary visited Mt Melleray petitioning for it.
Completion and consecration of Mellifont Abbey, the first Cistercian foundation in Ireland. [1] The earliest Irish land charter to survive is that of the grant in 1157 of land to the Cistercians in Newry, which lay in Uí Echach, by the High King Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn