St. Mary's Abbey, Glencairn

The community belongs to the Trappist branch of the Cistercian order, thus the nuns are also referred to as Trappistines.

[2] The townland, which is in electoral division of Castlerichard[3] (the original name of part of the abbey complex),[4] had a population of 59 people as of the 2011 census.

[8] This community was the first house of Cistercian nuns to be founded in Ireland since the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII (1536–41).

It went on to found Mount Saint Mary's Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts, in 1949, the first community of Cistercian nuns in the United States; and St Justina's monastery, Abakaliki, Nigeria in 1982.

[10][11] The community consists of 29 nuns, who support themselves in standard Cistercian practice through the farming of their 200-acre farm,[12] the baking of altar breads and providing greeting and spiritual cards for all occasions, both printed and handcrafted.