
Downpatrick: Community digging up relics of the past
Archaeologists believe they have discovered the site of a 12th Century monastery that was destroyed in 1177. The Cistercian monastery is near Downpatrick and was known as Erenagh. It was built 50 years before Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy's invasion of Ulster. A community excavation of the site …
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