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Holmcultram Abbey (alternatively Holm Cultram Abbey or Holme Cultram Abbey) was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1150 in what is now the village of Abbeytown in Cumbria in England but at the time of foundation was in territory in the possession of David I of Scotland who together with his son Henry founded it in 1150. The mother-house was Melrose Abbey of the filiation of Cîteaux.The community established a daughter house at Grey Abbey in Northern Ireland in 1193.
