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Mellifont Abbey, Mellifont Abbey

 Mauzl Says:   In a sequesters valley, four miles north of Drogheda, stand the remains of the once magnificent and celebrated monastic foundation of Mellifont. In 1142, Donogh O'Carroll, Prince of Uriel (Louth) erected the first abbey in Ireland for monks of the Cisterian order. Its... 

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  In a sequesters valley, four miles north of Drogheda, stand the remains of the once magnificent and celebrated monastic foundation of Mellifont. In 1142,... 

 

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 Old Mellifont Abbey, foundet by St. Malachy in 1142, was the first Cistercian monastery in Ireland. Its foundation marked the introduction of the European monastic way of life. There are many... 

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 The Boyne Valley is an area rich in megalithic, early Christian and more modern history. Mellifont Abbey is an Irish Cistercian monastery of which signifficant ruins are still visible and open to the... 

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