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Mount Melleray
Abbey & Brewery
After the 1830 Revolution, the non-French monks of Notre-Dame de Melleray Abbey were expelled.
They found refuge in Ireland in 1832, where they founded the monastery that retains the name Melleray in memory of their former home. The monastery grew rapidly, and by 1850 had established its first daughter abbey in England, Mount Saint Bernard, followed by New Melleray in the United States.
Other foundations followed.
Evidence of the existence of a brewery within the abbey is scanty, but we can learn from "The Irish Monthly (1890)" that "Every class is represented in the Community, and all needs are supplied from within. They are farmers, tailors , masons, slaters, bakers, brewers, shoemakers , etc. , etc.)"
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