Separately, in 1932, a community of Cistercian nuns (Trappistines) came from Stapehill in Dorset to establish St Mary’s Abbey at Glencairn, Co Waterford. Today, although some monasteries have ...
In the 18th century a designed landscape of exceptional beauty was created around the ruins of the Cistercian ... of the 12th century abbey and water mill, the Jacobean mansion of Fountains Hall, the ...