Glencairn Abbey

Monastery Glencairn (lat. Abbatia Santa Maria de Glencairn ) is a Trappist - abbey in Lismore , County Waterford , Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore , Ireland

history

The English Trappist Abbey of Stapehill founded the Saint Mary's Abbey in 1932 (with the support of Mount Melleray Monastery ) not far from Mount Melleray in Southern Ireland ( elevated to an abbey in 1934 ). It was the first establishment of a Cistercian convent in Ireland since the Reformation (reverting to the name of the former Cistercian monastery of Saint Mary's Abbey in Dublin ).

Superiors and Abbesses

• Maura Mary Perry (1932-1935)
• Gertrude Purcell (1935–1944; 1950–1955)
• Margaret Shaw (1944-1950; 1958-1965)
• Agnes Fahey (1955-1958)
• Imelda Power (1965-1983)
• Dominic Lee (1983-1995)
• Agnes O'Shea (1995-2001)
• Marie Fahy (since 2001)

Foundations

• 1949: Wrentham Trappist Abbey (Massachusetts) Mount St Mary's Abbey
• 1982: Abakaliki Trappist Monastery (Nigeria) St. Justina's Monastery

literature

• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 995.

Web links

• Glencairn Monastery website
• Page Glencairn Monastery in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia
• Glencairn Monastery page on the Trappist homepage

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 27.3 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 11.6"  W.