Mount Melleray Abbey, Co. Waterford, closed its doors on Saturday after a final Mass. The monks will relocate to Roscrea, to ...

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See ye when ye get back God willing," was among the tributes on social media to the departing monks of Mount Mellerary. The ...

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Last weekend as we turned the corner and the huge edifice of Mount Melleray Abbey loomed over us, the bells were still ...

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The closure comes almost two centuries after the abbey was founded in the 1830s by an Irish-born monk who returned to Ireland ...

Mount Melleray Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the foothills of the Knockmealdown mountains, now houses only six monks and ...

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