Old Drogheda
Society
Tonight Dr Geraldine Stout will lecture on Monastery to
Mansion: Tudor Remodelling at Mellifont and Related Sites in the Governor's
House Millmount, Drogheda, at 8pm. Hosted by the County Louth Archaeological
& Historical Society.
The lecture focuses on the history of the Cistercian abbey
post-Dissolution. In the period after the Acts of Dissolution 1540-41 a great
number.of former monasteries were converted to domestic use by leading Crown
favourites who took advantage of their position to transform them into
residential mansions. Amongst these was the Moore family who became owners of
Mellifont in 1563. The lecture presents a reconstruction of Mellifont House,
'the great stone house', based on the surviving evidence on the ground and a
recently discovered plan of 1714. The other related sites are Bective Abbey,
Co. Meath and Dunbrody Abbey, Co. Wexford.
Admission is free and all welcome.
Old Drogheda Society - History, Archaeology & Heritage, Millmount, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Tel. 041-9833097
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