English: 3D Thumbnail of Mellifont Abbey (Irish: An Mhainistir Mhór, literally “the big abbey”), located close to Drogheda in County Louth, was the first Cistercian abbey to be built in Ireland. Mellifont Abbey is now a ruin. Little of the original Abbey remains, save a 13th-century lavabo (where the monks washed their hands before eating), some Romanesque arches and a 14th-century chapter house.