{"id":366,"date":"2022-01-12T11:31:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/?page_id=366"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:58:22","slug":"about-glenstal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/?page_id=366","title":{"rendered":"About Glenstal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Glenstal Abbey is home to a community of Benedictine monks in County Limerick, Ireland, and is a place of prayer, work, education and hospitality. The monastery sits alongside a popular guesthouse and a boarding school for boys, housed within a 19th century Normanesque castle amidst five hundred magnificent acres of farmland, forest, lakes and streams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenstal was once home to the Barringtons, a wealthy family of landowners and baronets. They built the castle in the 1830\u2019s and were well-respected by local people, eventually leaving Ireland after the tragic death of their daughter in the Irish War of Independence. The castle was purchased by a local priest who invited monks from the Belgian Abbey of Maredsous to begin a community here in 1927.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Abbey is part of the wider Benedictine family of the Congregation of the Annunciation \u2013 formerly known as the \u2018Belgian Congregation\u2019 \u2013 which has monasteries in Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenstal Abbey is home to a community of Benedictine monks in County Limerick, Ireland, and is a place of prayer, work, education and hospitality. The &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-366","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/366\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenstalarchives.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}