‘It will be deeply sad’: Monks reflect on closure of Waterford monastery after almost 200 years
Mount Melleray Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in the foothills of the Knockmealdown mountains, now houses only six monks and ...
A new chapter begins for the Cistercian monks, but some things haven’t changed
The regime at Our Lady of Silence will be removed from the austerities of La Trappe. The rules on diet, work and silence ...
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Mount Melleray Abbey to close after almost two centuries
One of the country's best known Cistercian abbeys, Mount Melleray in west Waterford, is to close this weekend after almost ...
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Monastery Doorway
At the ruins of Kilmacduagh Monastery in Ireland’s County Galway, an unusual parch mark emerged outside a blocked doorway. Before that doorway was walled up, however, the passage, dating to the ...
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The Bangor Bell
The bell was reputedly found by gravediggers at Bangor Abbey around 1780, and it is speculated that it had been hidden at the time of the Viking attacks on Irish monasteries. It was in private ...
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Did the Vikings and monks get along?
The first recorded Viking raid on Ireland was in AD795. This raid, on the monastery at Rathlin Island off the Antrim coast, was just the beginning of many years of Viking attacks on Christian ...
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The Bangor Bell
The bell was reputedly found by gravediggers at Bangor Abbey around 1780, and it is speculated that it had been hidden at the time of the Viking attacks on Irish monasteries. It was in private ...