Mount Melleray Abbey Traditional Cache
Cuilcagh: The cache owner is not responding to issues with this geocache, so I must regretfully archive it.
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Mount Melleray Abbey is located on the southern slopes of the Knockmealdown mountains. It is a Cistercian monastery, and was founded in 1833.
The Cistercians are also known as Trappists, and are an Order of the Benedictine family, founded at Citeaux in France in 1098.
The origin Abbey of Melleray was located near Chateaubriand in Brittary, and was founded in 1145. It was suppressed during the French Revolution. It was restored to the Cistercians in 1817, and within 10 years it had a brotherhood of 200 members, 70 who were Irish and including the Prior, Fr. Vincent Ryan, a Waterfordman. It was he who established the Irish Mount Mellarey.
New Melleray was established in 1849 in Iowa, US, by monks from Mount Melleray.
During the famine years from 1845 to 1852, the Abbey fed 500 local people on a daily basis.
Mount Melleray College educated both clerical and lay students for 140 years until its closure in 1974. The former boarding school was acquired by the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland in 1979, and has since functioned as an internationally-known scouting centre.
The cache is a bigly plastic container.
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oruvaq fznyy cvyyne ng raq bs ybj jnyy, cenl juvyr frnepuvat
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