Bolton Convent

Bolton Monastery (Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Bolton ; English Bolton Abbey (Cistercian) ; Irish Mainistir Bhóltain ) is an Irish Trappist abbey in Moone, Athy , County Kildare , Archdiocese of Dublin .

history

Abbey Roscrea founded in 1965 southwest of Dublin , the Abbey Bolton Abbey , the 1977 Abbey was charged. It is not to be confused with the ruins of Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire .

Superiors and abbots

• Ambrose Farrington (1965-1974)
• Benedict Kearns (1974-1994)
• Ambrose Farrington (1994-2000)
• Eoin de Bhaldraithe (2000-2006)
• Peter Garvey (2006–2012)
• Michael Ryan (2012-2018)

literature

• Bernard Peugniez , Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, p. 992.

Web links

• Bolton Monastery website
• Page Bolton Monastery in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia
• Page of Bolton Monastery on the Trappist homepage

Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '21.8 "  N , 6 ° 49' 22.2"  W.