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MELLIFONT ABBEY,
CO. LOUTH:

Its Ruins and Associations.

A GUIDE
AND
POPULAR HISTORY.

“A house of prayer, once consecrate
To God’s high service—desolate!
A ruin where once stood a shrine!
Bright with the Presence all divine!”
(W. Chatterton Dix.)

Permissu Superiorum.

Published by
JAMES DUFFY & CO., Ltd., DUBLIN,
FOR
THE CISTERCIANS,
MOUNT ST. JOSEPH ABBEY, ROSCREA.
1897.

Printed by
Edmund Burke & Co.,
61 & 62 GREAT STRAND STREET, DUBLIN.