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Downpatrick (Downpatrick → Down District Council → Newry, Mourne and Down → Northern Ireland → United Kingdom) Camera location 54° 19′ 27.7″ N, 5° 42′ 42″ W
The Saint Patrick Visitor Centre is a modern exhibition complex located in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is a permanent interpretative exhibition centre featuring interactive displays on the life and story of Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It provides the only permanent exhibition centre in the world devoted to ...
Saul has expanded closer into Downpatrick with new estates being built such as Saul Meadows, Saul Acres and Saul Manor. The village has a soccer club and Gaelic football club St Patrick's GAC, formed in 1928.A recent revival of hurling and comogie in 2022 after 30 years since it was last played in Saul.
In the cathedral grounds is the burial place of St Patrick, believed to have died in 461. However, the inscribed stone of Mourne granite allegedly marking the grave was actually put in place in 1900. Outside the east end of the cathedral stands the replica of a weathered high cross made of granite. The 10th- or 11th-century original, which ...
It is the traditional site of death of Saint Patrick, who died at Saul on 17 March 465. [6] Saul Monastery survived for over three centuries before being destroyed by Viking raids. [5] The Annals of the Four Masters mention a "Ceannfaeladh of Sabhall, bishop, anchorite, and pilgrim" in 1011. [7] A stone church was burned at Saul in 1020. [1]
St. Patrick's Day marks the day Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, died in 461, but many of the lively traditions we know today began with Irish Americans.
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