Norbertine Fathers to Vacate Kilnacrott Abbey in Ballyjamesuff in Cavan Next Month

Northern Sound
March 12, 2015

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The Norbertine Fathers are to vacate Kilnacrott Abbey in Ballyjamesuff in Cavan next month.

The last ever mass at the Abbey as we know it, will take place on Easter Sunday.

5 priests in Kilnacrott will be relocated.

Profits from the sale of the Abbey which was sold in 2012 for ˆ610,000 to a new Catholic lay movement called Directon For Our Times will be put into the fund for the victims of the Notorious Paedophile priest Brendan Smyth.

It’s hoped that a further ˆ100,000 will be raised for that fund from the sale of the furnishings of the Abbey on Saturday the 6th of June.

Fr William Fitzgerald one of the Priests in Kilnacrott says the closure of the Abbey as we know it, will be the end of an era for many people.