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

HUNDREDS of people flocked to a historic abbey yesterday ahead of a ‘difficult’ closure. Mount Melleray Abbey in Waterford, regarded as one of Ireland’s most famous, held Sunday m… ...

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 ...

On January 26, 2025, the feast day of the Cistercian Founders, the monks of this new community will move to Roscrea, on an interim basis, for at least a year, to begin the life of the new community.

The Cistercians were first established in Ireland in 1142, initially at Mellifont Abbey by St Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh. By the time of the Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries there ...

ROSCREA'S Mount St. Joseph's Abbey will become the new temporary home of monks and lay brothers from the historic Cistercian Abbey at Mount Melleray in Waterford, which is due to close in January.

The community of Cistercian Monks residing at Mount Melleray will be based, for an interim period, at Roscrea from January 26, 2025, vacating the Abbey at Mount Melleray.

Mount Melleray Abbey in the foothills of the Knockmealdown Mountains of Waterford is to close in January, with the monks transferring to Roscrea in County Tipperary as an interim measure.

The stones that make up the chapel house were first used to construct Santa Maria de Óvila, a 13th-century Cistercian monastery in Spain.

Mullins took the Grand National winner I Am Maximus with him for his first visit to Cistercian College in Roscrea, Co Tipperary in a quarter of a century. The 18-time champion jumps trainer who ...

Cistercian College Roscrea was founded by the Cistercian monks of the Strict Observance (OCSO) at Mount Saint Joseph Abbey in 1905 and is located on the Abbey’s 600-acre campus on the Tipperary-Offaly ...