This is a two-storey cloister ruin in County Meath, well worth a stop on any tours of Ireland. It was established in 1147. The Abbey has large corner towers that were built as fortifications during the troubled 12th century. Scarcely any other abbey in Ireland is as well...
A few low stone walls and ruined buildings cupped in a hollow of protective hills , are all that is left of Ireland’s first Cistercian Abbey. It was founded in 1142 by St Malachy , Bishop of Armagh , after a stay in the French...
Mellifont was , in medieval times, one of the most important monasteries in Ireland , the motherhouse of the Cistercian order and building of exceptional beauty and grandeur. The ruins you see today do no justice to this former glory, but they're still pretty impressive....