• Grey Abbey (Irish: An Mhainistir Liath) is a ruined Cistercian priory in Greyabbey, County Down, Northern Ireland. Currently maintained by the Northern Ireland Environment...
  • I must confess that although I have lived in north down for a great number of years I have never visited Grey Abbey.
  • The story goes that Grey Abbey was founded by Affreca, daughter of Godred – king of the Kingdom of Man and the Isles.
  • Grey Abbey was founded in 1193, by John de Courcy’s wife, Affreca as a daughter house of Holmcultram Abbey in Cumbria.
  • The Abbey was destroyed during the great rebellion of 1641, and was partly restored by the first Lord Montgomery in 1685, into whose hands it had fallen.
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  • GREY-ABBEY, a post-town and parish, in the harony of ARDES, county of DOWN, and province of ULSTER, 6 miles (S. E.) from Newtownards (to which it has a...
  • Grey Abbey in Newtownards, County Down, is more than just a historical site; it is a doorway to the past and a sanctuary of peace in the present.
  • 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.
  • One of the great features of Grey Abbey today is a carefully recreated Herb Garden, containing over fifty varieties of medicinal plants and herbs that you are...