Downpatrick, County Down

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settlement town

Downpatrick, County Down is a historic town in Northern Ireland traditionally regarded as the burial place of Saint Patrick and an important center of early Irish Christianity.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	settlement → town →
coordinateLocation	54.328°N 5.715°W →
country	United Kingdom →
dedicatedTo	Saint Patrick →
dialingCode	+44 →
etymology	named after Saint Patrick →
governingBody	Newry, Mourne and Down District Council →
hasGraveOf	Saint Brigid (traditional) → Saint Columba (traditional) → Saint Patrick (traditional) →
hasHeritageStatus	historic town →
hasPopulation	approximately 10,000 (early 21st century) →
hasReligiousBuilding	Down Cathedral →
hasReligiousEvent	Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations →
hasReligiousSignificance	important centre of early Irish Christianity →
hasRiver	River Quoile →
hasSite	Down Cathedral → Down County Museum → Downpatrick and County Down Railway → Inch Abbey (nearby) → Mound of Down → The Saint Patrick Centre →
hasTransport	Downpatrick and County Down Railway →
historicalName	Dún Dá Lethglas →
isCountyTownOf	County Down →
languageOfName	English →
localDialingCode	028 →
locatedIn	Northern Ireland →
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory	County Down →
locatedInRegion	Down District → Newry, Mourne and Down district →
locatedNear	River Quoile → Strangford Lough →
nativeName	Dún Pádraig →
nativeNameLanguage	Irish →
nearCoastOf	Irish Sea →
northernIrelandAssemblyConstituency	South Down →
parliamentaryConstituency	South Down →
postalTown	DOWNPATRICK →
postcodeArea	BT →
region	Ulster →
timeZone	GMT →
timeZoneDST	BST →
tourismType	heritage tourism → religious tourism →
traditionallyRegardedAs	burial place of Saint Brigid → burial place of Saint Columba → burial place of Saint Patrick →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Saint Patrick →	majorShrine