Glenstal Abbey is delighted to invite parents whose sons left our Abbey School ten or more years ago to a Past Parents’ Gala Dinner on Saturday 24th August 2024.
The evening will begin with Afternoon Tea from 4pm and will be followed by Presentations of the Castle, Abbey Library and Icon Restorations, or the Abbey’s Forestry and Green Energy Projects, from 5pm.
Guests are invited to join the monastic community for a service of Sung Evening Prayer at 6pm, after which there will be a Drinks Reception at 7pm before the Gala Dinner begins at 8pm.
The dress code is smart casual and numbers are limited to 150 persons. Local accommodation options can be discussed by telephoning 061 621005.
To RSVP please telephone 061 621006 or email events@glenstal.com
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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. more
