Award-winning monastery on the banks of the Boyne

The Irish Times

One of the few purpose-built monasteries to be developed in Ireland in recent years was designed by McCullough Mulvin Architects for the enclosed Dominican sisters of St Catherine of Siena on an elevated greenfield site on the outskirts of Drogheda. The nuns had been in Drogheda since the early 18th century, occupying a neo-classical building overlooking the Boyne. There were the usual problems with dry rot and general maintenance, so in the end they decided to commission a new monastery.

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