Glenstal Abbey

Glenstal Abbey is a Benedictine monastery of the Congregation of the Annunciation located in Murroe, County Limerick, Ireland. It is dedicated to Saint Joseph and Saint Columba. The current abbot of the monastery is Brendan Coffey.
The abbey is located in and beside Glenstal Castle, a Normanesque castle built by the Barrington family. The transfer from the Barrington family to the Benedictine order did not go smoothly, and in 1925 it was Monsignor James J. Ryan, a wealthy priest and retired president of St. Patrick's College, Thurles, who actually bought the place from the family. The abbey came into being in 1927 when the chapter of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium accepted the offer of Ryan to donate the estate when the Benedictines would open a monastery there. Later that year a superior, Fr. Bernard O’Dea, was appointed and the founding monks chosen. They arrived in Glenstal in May 1927. The abbey was canonically erected on 18 December 1927. The monks became legal owners of the estate in January 1928 after receiving the deeds.

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