Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - presbytery north facade, buttresses

Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - presbytery north facade, buttresses

Collon, County Louth, Leinster, Republic of Ireland, Europe

Photograph by Roger Stalley. Exterior of thirteenth - century addition to east end presbytery showing buttresses projecting from a battered masonry plinth. Disposition and size of the buttresses suggest the existence of a rib - vault in the extended presbytery, probably divided into three bays. A similar arrangement exists at the Cistercian Abbey in Graiguenamanagh.

Architecture, Medieval - Ireland, Ecclesiastical architecture, Architecture - Ireland - Louth, Cistercian architecture, Monasteries - Ireland, presbytery, buttress, battered plinth, battered masonry, rib vault

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