Sister Claire Dillon and fellow enclosed nuns at St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn is the only Cistercian monastery for women in Ireland. The monastery is located in the Blackwater Valley, about 3 miles upstream from Lismore, County Waterford, c. 1955.
Sister Claire Dillon and fellow enclosed nuns at St Mary’s Abbey, Glencairn is the only Cistercian monastery for women in Ireland. The monastery is located in the Blackwater Valley, about 3 miles upstream from Lismore, County Waterford, c. 1955.