Mount Melleray
Mount Melleray
Cnoc Mheilearaí | |
|---|---|
Townland | |
| Mountmelleray | |
Former 19th-century monastery boarding houses, now the Scout Centre, in Mount Melleray | |
| Coordinates: 52°11′10″N 7°51′25″W / 52.186°N 7.857°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| County | County Waterford |
| Barony | Coshmore and Coshbride |
| Civil parish | Lismore and Mocollop |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.25 km2 (0.87 sq mi) |
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Mount Melleray, also spelled Mountmelleray (Irish: Cnoc Mheilearaí, meaning 'hill of Meilearaí'), 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. The townland, which is 2.25 square kilometres (0.87 sq mi) in area, had a population of 31 people as of the 2011 census. It is home to the Cistercian monastery, Mount Melleray Abbey, and a Scout centre operated by Scouting Ireland.