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Mount Melleray closure: 'This isn't the final goodbye, the monks hope to return'
Its closure was first proposed by the monks last November after a decision was made to form a union with Mount St Joseph Abbey in Roscrea, and Mellifont Abbey in Louth. The group, known as the ...
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Mount Melleray Abbey to close after almost 200 years with a final Mass
Mt St Joseph Abbey in Roscrea, and Mellifont Abbey in Louth to form a union. Group of monks outside church at Mount Melleray Abbey, circa 1900. Picture: Waterford County Museum The group ...
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Mount Melleray Abbey to close after almost two centuries
The abbey was founded in 1832 by Irish and English ... Mount Melleray, Mellifont and Mount St Joseph, which since November 3rd, the Feast of St Malachy, have already merged as one new single ...
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Mount Melleray Abbey in Co Waterford to sound bell for prayer for last time
Hundreds of people have visited the abbey in recent weeks before its community relocates to Roscrea in Co Tipperary. The decision by the Mount Melleray, Mellifont (Co Louth) and Mount St Joseph ...