Mellifont
- photo: Sandra Gelbe
- photo: OCSO
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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 | |
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