Mount Melleray Monastery

Mont Melleray Abbey (2013)

Mount Melleray Monastery (lat. Abbatia BM de Monte Melleario , Irish Mainistir Chnoc Mheilearaí . English Mont Melleray Abbey ) is since 1832 a Trappist - Abbey in Cappoquin, County Waterford , Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore , Ireland .

history

When in 1830, under Abbot Antoine Saulnier de Beauregard, the English and Irish monks of the Melleray monastery were expelled by the French July Revolution , they went to Ireland and founded the Mount Melleray monastery northeast of Cork in 1832 , which was elevated to an abbey in 1834.

In 1925 new buildings and extensions were carried out. Stones from the Mitchelstown Castle , which was destroyed in the Irish Civil War , were used for this purpose.

Superiors and abbots

Vincent de Paul Ryan (1835-1845)
Joseph Mary Ryan (1846-1847)
Bruno Fitzpatrick (1848-1893)
Carthage Delaney (1894-1908)
Maurus O'Phelan (1908-1931)
Stanislaus Hickey (1931-1933)
Celsus O'Connell (1933–1957)
Finbar Cashman (1957-1971)
Paul Hennesy (Pól Ó hAonusa) (1971–1975)
Edward Ducey (1975-1980)
Justin Mac Carthy (1980-1989)
Eamon Fitzgerald (1989-2008, then Abbot General of the Trappists)
Michael Ahern (2008-2010)
Augustine McGregor (2010-2014)
O'Connor (2015–)

Foundations

1835: Mount Saint Bernard Monastery (England)
1849: New Melleray Abbey (United States)
1878: Roscrea Monastery , Mount Saint Joseph (Ireland)
1938: New Mellifont Monastery (Ireland)
1948: Portglenone Monastery (Northern Ireland)
1954: Kopua Monastery (New Zealand)
In 1932 the monastery supported the founding of the Trappist nuns at Glencairn Monastery .
Founding attempts in 1862 in Skibbereen, County Cork (nuns) and in 1988 in the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn , Australia (monks) were unsuccessful .

literature

Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 996.
From the stones of these fields. The story of Mount Melleray , Mount Melleray Abbey Trust, Cappoquin 2000.

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52.1874776 -7.8581278Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 14.9 " N , 7 ° 51 ′ 29.3" W.