Last year, the 900th anniversary of the founding of the Cistercian order was celebrated in a ceremony at the abbey attended by past students of the Cistercian College Roscrea.

He received his secondary education at Cistercian College Roscrea, established as a boarding school for boys in 1905 by the Cistercian monks of Mount Saint Joseph Abbey Listen to our Inside ...

Fr Malachy of Cistercian College Roscrea, blesses the cross, as the 1st Year students of the college performed the stations of the cross around the grounds of Mount Saint Joseph Abbey Pic.

At the Cistercian Abbey in Roscrea in Co Tipperary, monastic life continued uninterrupted during the Covid crisis, as it has done for 142 years since its foundation in 1878.

Fifty years ago a group of monks left Roscrea to make the first foundation of Cistercians in the Southern Hemisphere. The idea of a Cistercian monastery in Australia had been suggested over forty ...

Roscrea's Cistercian College, which was set to close in 2018, will remain open after an action group set up to save it raised around €1.5m to secure its future.