Mellifont

photo: Sandra Gelbe
photo: OCSO

                                      

                                                              

                            name

Mellifont

                     latin name

Mellifons

                     founded in

1142

                  inhabited by

monks

               primary abbey

Clairvaux

                mother abbey

Clairvaux

           daughter abbeys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bective (1147)

Boyle (1148)

Baltinglass (1148)

Maigue (1148)

Kilbeggan (1150)

Shrule (1150)

Newry (1153)

Kilbeggan (1200)

Saddel (1207)

Hore (1272)

                   dissolved in

1539

                reinhabited in

1938 - new location: Collon

                   affiliated to

Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae

                 inhabited by

monks

              mother abbey

Mont Melleray

         father immediate

Mont Melleray

     to visit the old abbey

ruins

   to visit the new abbey


                         address

 

 

 

Mellifont Abbey

Collon

Co. Louth

Ireland

                           phone

[353] (41) 982 6103

                               fax


                            email

info@mellifontabbey.ie

                         internet

www.mellifontabbey.ie