Greyabbey

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Greyabbey is a small village in Northern Ireland best known for the ruins of its 12th-century Cistercian abbey and its location on the shores of Strangford Lough.

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Label Occurrences
Greyabbey canonical 5
Grey Abbey 2

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf civil parish
settlement
village
abbeyDedicatedTo Virgin Mary
surface form: Blessed Virgin Mary
abbeyFoundedBy Affreca de Courcy
abbeyFoundedIn 1193
administrativeDistrict Ards and North Down district
surface form: Ards and North Down Borough
country United Kingdom
distanceTo approximately 7 miles south of Newtownards
foundedAround 12th century
hasAmenity community facilities
village shops
hasCategory Civil parishes of County Down
Townlands of County Down
Villages in County Down
hasDialCode +44
028
hasFeature coastal views over Strangford Lough
rural surroundings
hasGridReference J582719
hasHeritageSite Grey Abbey ruins
hasIrishName An Abhainn Liath
hasLandmark Greyabbey self-linksurface differs
surface form: Grey Abbey
hasPostcodeArea BT
hasPostcodeDistrict BT22
hasPostTown Newtownards
hasPrimarySchool Greyabbey Primary School
hasReligiousSite Greyabbey Presbyterian Church
St Saviour’s Church of Ireland
hasRoadConnection A20 road NERFINISHED
hasScotsName Greyabbey self-link
historicalCounty County Down
knownFor ruins of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey
lieutenancyArea County Down
locatedIn County Down
Northern Ireland
locatedOn Ards Peninsula
Strangford Lough
surface form: shores of Strangford Lough
nearbyWaterBody Strangford Lough
northernIrelandAssemblyConstituency Strangford
parliamentaryConstituencyUK Strangford
province Ulster
region East County Down
religiousHeritage Cistercian abbey ruins
religiousOrderAssociated Cistercians
tourismAttraction medieval monastic ruins

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

County Down contains Greyabbey
Ards Peninsula hasLandmark Greyabbey
this entity surface form: Grey Abbey
Ballywalter hasNearbySettlement Greyabbey
Greyabbey hasLandmark Greyabbey self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Grey Abbey
Greyabbey hasScotsName Greyabbey self-link