Crossgar is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.3981°, -5.7648°.

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Crossgar

Also known as: An Chrois Ghearr

Crossgar in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Crossgar is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Crossgar (from Irish an Chrois Ghearr 'the short cross') is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is about 15 miles (24 km) south of Belfast, between Saintfield and Downpatrick. Crossgar had a population 1,997 people in the 2021 UK Census.

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Background

History

Crossgar has had an interesting and varied past, dating from the establishment of ancient Gaelic royal and ecclesiastical sites, the settlement of Anglo-Norman invaders, to Scots settlers, to the St. Patrick's Day riots in the 1800s. According to a history of Down and Connor by a Fr. O'Laverty, the parish of Kilmore, in which Crossgar lies, was likely to have been established around 800 AD and was the ecclesiastical centre of this part of County Down. It was thought that the area had seven chapels and these can be reasonably evident by the remains of burial grounds. But the seventh cannot be traced to a burial ground and is referred to as the "lost chapel of Cill Glaise". O'Laverty says…

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