Welcome

We are a family of nine Sisters, descendants of a group of Carmelite nuns who came to Delgany from Dublin in 1844. The nuns came to establish a place of prayer, the 'raison d'etre' of the Carmelite life, with God at its very centre. After the years of the Great Famine, they built a church in 1852, which still serves the local community today.

An important milestone in our history was reached in 2002, when the community decided to build a new monastery, to be attached to the original farmhouse. The new monastery was completed in 2005 and blessed by Archbishop Diarmuid Maritn on 16th. July, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.