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MOUND OF DOWN

Mount Crescent,
Downpatrick, Co Down
BT30 6AU
t: 028 9082 3207
Contact: 028 9082 3207
e: scmenquiries@communities-ni.gov.uk
w: www.discoverni.com/christianheritage

You can see one of the most important and dramatic early medieval Irish forts beside the River Quoile behind Down County Museum. It is the site of a motte for a timber castle, built by the Norman John De Courcy, who founded Inch Abbey on the other side of the river.