 In Ireland, the information on the Cistercian Order after the Anglo-Norman invasion gives a rather gloomy impression.Absenteeism among Irish abbots at the General Chapter became a persistent and much criticised problem in the 13th century, and escalated into the "conspiratio Mellifontis", a "rebellion" by the abbeys of the Mellifont filiation.Visitors were appointed to reform Mellifont on account of the "multa enormia" that had arisen there, but in 1217 the abbot refused their admission and had lay brothers bar the abbey gates.