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St Patrick's Cathedral sign, November 2009. St Patrick's Cathedral (Irish: Ardeaglais Phádraig, Ard Mhacha) is a Church of Ireland cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and Diocese of Armagh. [1] The origins of the site are as a 5th century Irish stone monastery, said to have been founded by ...
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656–58 by surveyors under William Petty.
Newtownards (/ ˌ n juː t ən ˈ ɑːr d z /; Irish: Baile Nua na hArda [1]) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough , 10 miles (16 km) east of Belfast , on the Ards Peninsula .
St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh, Northern Ireland is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland.It was built in various phases between 1840 and 1904 to serve as the Roman Catholic cathedral of the Archdiocese of Armagh, the original medieval Cathedral of St. Patrick having been appropriated by the state church called the Church of Ireland at the time of the Irish ...
Scrabo Tower overlooks Newtownards and the northern end of the Ards Peninsula. Mount Stewart, an 18th-century house and garden owned by the National Trust near Greyabbey. It was the home of the Vane-Tempest-Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry. Grey Abbey, a ruined Cistercian abbey.
According to tradition in 432 the local chieftain Dichu gave St Patrick land. On this land was built a barn: thus Saul became the site of St Patrick's first church. Sabhull Padraig; Sepulturam Patricii; Baile itá Saball; an Sabhall: St Andrews in Ards Priory: Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Stogursey, Somerset and Lonlay Abbey, France;
The tower is a remnant of the medieval parish Church of Trim. [1]Walter de Brugge, an English-born judge, was appointed vicar of St. Patrick's in 1381. [2] Robert Dyke, a very senior Crown official and future Lord Treasurer of Ireland, became vicar in 1435.
Tullylish (from Irish Tulaigh Lis, meaning 'hillock of the fort') [1] [2] is a small village, townland (of 513 acres) and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.It sits on the River Bann, along the main road between the towns of Banbridge and Portadown.