Bective Cistercian Abbey

Bective Abbey is located on a high northern bank of the Boyne River, half way between Navan to the north, and Trim to the south west, and less that one kilometre (.62 of a mile) south east off the R161 from Connell’s Cross. Under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin, and called the Abbatia de Beatitudine, from which it is thought that the name Bective is a corruption, it was founded in 1147AD ...