Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, County Louth, exterior - presbytery north facade, buttresses - Stalley, Roger (My University, 2011)
Cistercian Abbey, Mellifont, Collon, County Louth
Photograph by Roger Stalley. Exterior of thirteenth-century addition to east end presbytery showing buttresses projecting from a battered masonry plinth. Disposition and size of the buttresses suggest the existence of a rib-vault in the extended presbytery, probably divided into three bays. A similar arrangement exists at the Cistercian Abbey in Graiguenamanagh.
Keywords: presbytery; buttress; battered plinth; battered masonry; rib vault; Architecture, Medieval--Ireland; Ecclesiastical architecture; Architecture--Ireland--Louth; Cistercian architecture; Monasteries--Ireland; Medieval; Early English Gothic