Mount Melleray

{{use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{short description|Irish townland and Scout centre}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Mount Melleray

| official_name = Mountmelleray

| settlement_type = Townland

| native_name = {{lang|ga|Cnoc Mheilearaí}}

| native_name_lang = ga

| image_skyline = Boarding houses, now Scout Centre, Mount Melleray (geograph 4647384).jpg

| image_caption = Former 19th-century monastery boarding houses, now the Scout Centre, in Mount Melleray

| pushpin_map = Ireland

| coordinates = {{coord|52.186|N|7.857|W|region:IE-WD_scale:20000|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Ireland

| subdivision_type1 = County

| subdivision_name1 = County Waterford

| subdivision_type2 = Barony

| subdivision_name2 = Coshmore and Coshbride

| subdivision_type3 = Civil parish

| subdivision_name3 = Lismore and Mocollop

| area_total_km2 = 2.25

}}

Mount Melleray, also spelled Mountmelleray ({{Irish place name|Cnoc Mheilearaí|hill of Meilearaí}}),{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/50030.aspx | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | website = logainm.ie | title = Cnoc Mheilearaí / Mountmelleray | accessdate = 14 January 2023 }} is a townland situated in the Knockmealdown Mountains near Cappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland. It is in the civil parish of Lismore and Mocollop in the historical barony of Coshmore and Coshbride.{{cite web|url = https://www.townlands.ie/waterford/coshmore-and-coshbride/lismore-and-mocollop/cappoquin/mountmelleray/ | website = townlands.ie | title = Mountmelleray Townland, Co. Waterford | accessdate = 14 January 2023 }} The townland, which is {{convert|2.25|km2}} in area, had a population of 31 people as of the 2011 census.{{cite web|url = https://data.gov.ie/dataset/cd171-waterford-population-by-private-households-occupied-and-vacancy-rate?package_type=dataset | publisher = Central Statistics Office | website = data.gov.ie | title = CD171 - Waterford Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate | accessdate = | quote= Population [..] Townlands [..] Mountmelleray, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford [..] 31}} It is home to the Cistercian monastery, Mount Melleray Abbey, and a Scout centre operated by Scouting Ireland.

Abbey

{{main|Mount Melleray Abbey}}

The townland is home to Mount Melleray Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, the first such monastery to be built in Ireland after the Reformation. Built in the early 19th century,{{cite web|url = https://mountmellerayabbey.org/history | website = mountmellerayabbey.org | title = History | accessdate = 14 January 2023 }} it is now home to a community of Trappist monks.{{cite web|url = https://mountmellerayabbey.org/ | website = mountmellerayabbey.org | title = Mount Melleray Abbey | accessdate = 14 January 2023 | quote = Mount Melleray Abbey is a community of Cistercian (Trappist) monks}}

Scout centre

A Scout centre run by Scouting Ireland, formerly Scouting Ireland (CSI), is also situated at Mount Melleray.{{cite web|url = https://www.mountmellerayscoutcentre.com/about/ | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20190228193123/https://www.mountmellerayscoutcentre.com/about/ | archivedate = 28 February 2019 | website = mountmellerayscoutcentre.com | title = About Mount Melleray Scout Centre }} The centre, which was a former monastic boarding house acquired in 1979,{{Cite web |url=https://avondhupress.ie/calls-for-clarity-on-mount-melleray-scout-centre/|title=Calls for clarity on Mount Melleray Scout Centre |first=Katie |last=Glavin |date=September 16, 2020 |website=The Avondhu}} includes a museum documenting the history of Scouting in Ireland. The centre is made up of a small camping field adjoining a large dormitory centre which also contains a climbing wall. Mount Melleray hosted the last Melvin All Ireland Scoutcraft competition of Scouting Ireland (CSI) in 2003. {{As of |2020|09}}, the centre had been closed for renovations since March 2019.

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