Abbeys & priories · Northern Ireland
Holywood Priory
Holywood Priory in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
About
Holywood Priory 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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Holywood Priory is a medieval monastic ruin in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland. Built in the late 12th or early 13th century on the site of an earlier monastery, it was later used by the Franciscans and dissolved in 1541 during the reign of Henry VIII.
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Background
History
The monastery was founded on the site by St Laiseran before 640. The early settlement was associated with the nearby Bangor Abbey, where Laiseran is said to have studied under Comgall. The site was later known as Sanctus Boscus or Sanctus Nemus, and appears in early medieval records, including a reference to King John of England halting there in 1210. The present ruins date primarily from a late 12th- or early 13th-century Anglo-Norman Augustinian abbey built by Thomas Whyte. Following the Black Death (1348–1350), the church was refurbished by Niall O’Neill for the Franciscan Order. The priory was dissolved on New Year’s Day 1541 during the reign of Henry VIII. Its lands passed first to the…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6431, -5.8313
- Address
- Holywood, County Down, Ireland
- Established
- 601
Sources
- wikidata: Q5887234 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Holywood Priory (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Holywood Priory?
- Holywood Priory is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6431°, -5.8313°.
- When was Holywood Priory built?
- Holywood Priory dates to 601.