Ireland - Northern Ireland

INCH ABBEY

Belfast Road,
Downpatrick, Co Down
BT30 9AX
t: 028 9082 3207
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Having destroyed the nearby Cistercian Abbey of Erenagh in 1177 on the grounds that it was fortified against him, John de Courcy rebuilt a monastery at Inch for this order as an act of atonement in the 1180s, inviting over Cistercians from Furness in Lancashire. It became the centre of English influence in East Ulster.