• Grey Abbey (Irish: An Mhainistir Liath)[1] is a ruined Cistercian priory in Greyabbey, County Down, Northern Ireland.
  • Although destroyed in 1572. But in the 17th Century it was re-roofed by the Montgomery family. Grey Abbey is remarkable for its beauty and size.
  • Address: on the Ards Peninsula, in the village of Grey Abbey, The Ards Peninsula , ( County Down ) - Northern Ireland.
  • ...above contains some beautiful photographs but they are of the Cistercian Grey Abbey in Greyabbey, Co. Down and not the Franciscan Grey Abbey in Co. Kildare.
  • The Grey Abbey Physic Garden is a reconstruction of such a garden and contains approximately 40 herbs and plants believed to be grown by the Cistercians.
  • Friends of the Abbey, County Down, Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... Welcome to Grey Abbey and its Friends, a Cistercian monastery founded in 1193.
  • Grey Abbey was founded in 1193, by John de Courcy’s wife, Affreca as a daughter house of Holmcultram Abbey in Cumbria.
  • Not Grey Gardens Under a slate grey sky through the foliage can be glimpsed one of the great houses of County Down, the central ground floor room of its garden...
  • Its free to Park up in the church car park next to Grey Abbey. The old ruins are lovely to wander around and have a serene feel to them.