Cistercian monastery in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Our Lady of Bethlehem Abbey from Top Wood
Our Lady of Bethlehem Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Portglenone, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, was founded in 1948 by the Cistercian community of Mount Melleray Abbey in County Waterford.[citation needed] The monks bought Portglenone House, a country mansion built c. 1810 by the Church of Ireland Bishop, Dr. Alexander who demolished the local castle.[citation needed] History records that Sir Roger Casement often stayed in the house in the early years of the 20th century.[citation needed]
Despite opposition from local Protestants, the monastery succeeded in establishing itself in the locality and ran a dairy farm for many years.[citation needed] Our Lady of Bethlehem Abbey was the first enclosed monastery of men to be established in Northern Ireland since the Reformation.[citation needed]
The monastery belongs to the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO), also known as Trappists, who follow the Rule of St Benedict, but emphasise some of the more austere and penitential aspects of the Rule such as strict silence, abstention from meat, early rising and physical work.
In the 1960s, the community built a new monastery designed in a modern style by Padraig Ó Muireadhaigh.[1] The building has won several architectural awards.[which?] To establish continuity with the Order's past, stones from some of the pre-Reformation Irish Cistercian abbeys were incorporated in the church and cloisters.[citation needed]
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