List of Abbeys and Priories in Northern Ireland - County Down

County Down

Foundation Communities/provenance Alt. Name Formal Name/Image
Ards Peninsula abbeys
Bangor Abbey latterly Franciscan, site now incorporated into C.I. church
Comber Abbey# Cistercian from Whitland 1200-1543, on the site of an earlier monastery founded by St Patrick, site now occupied by St Mary's C.I. church
Downpatrick monastery# within the dun or rĂ¡th on which the C.I. Cathedral now stands
Downpatrick Friary# Franciscan 1235, burned 1316, conventual -Reformation, Observant-Franciscan 1627-1650s
Grey Abbey Cistercian, rebuilt and served for a time as a parish church
Holywood Priory founded by St Laiseran before 640 on the site of the present ruins of the medieval Old Priory; Holywood (Ard Mhic Nasca in Irish) was named Sanctus Boscus ("Holy Wood") by the Normans after the woodland surrounding the monastery
Inch Abbey Cistercian, on the site of an earlier monastery
Magheralin monastery site occupied by remains of 15th-C church
Movilla Abbey site occupied by 13-15th-C church
Nendrum Monastery, Mahee Island (Strangford Lough) Patrician from 6th century, burned 10th century, in late 12th century a small Benedictine cell, by 1306 a parish church, abandoned 15th century
Newry monastery Patrician
Newry Abbey Cistercian
Newtownards Priory Dominican
Portaferry monastery# site thought to be now occupied by two small churches

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