Greyabbey
Greyabbey or Grey Abbey is a small village, townland and civil parish located on the eastern shores of Strangford Lough, on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 939 residents
- Description: village in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Grey Abbey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grey Abbey and Mount Stewart.
Grey Abbey
Monastery
Photo: Shaun Dunphy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grey Abbey is a ruined Cistercian priory in Greyabbey, County Down, Northern Ireland. Currently maintained by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, it is a monument in state care in the townland of Rosemount, on the eastern edge of the village of Greyabbey in the Ards and North Down local government district.
Mount Stewart
Photo: Ulsterbeef, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Stewart is a 19th-century house and garden in County Down, Northern Ireland, owned by the National Trust. Situated on the east shore of Strangford Lough, a few miles outside the town of Newtownards and near Greyabbey, it was the Irish seat of the Stewart family, Marquesses of Londonderry. Mount Stewart is situated 2 miles northwest of Greyabbey.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballywalter and Kircubbin.
Ballywalter
Village
Photo: Michael Parry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballywalter is a village or townland and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the east coast of the Ards Peninsula between Donaghadee and Ballyhalbert. Ballywalter is situated 3 miles east of Greyabbey.
Kircubbin
Village
Photo: Ronan Magee, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kircubbin is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. The village had a population of 1,153 people in the 2011 Census. Kircubbin is situated 3½ miles south of Greyabbey.
Ballyhalbert
Village
Photo: Michael Parry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballyhalbert is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the east coast of the Ards Peninsula between Ballywalter and Portavogie. Ballyhalbert is situated 5 miles southeast of Greyabbey.
Greyabbey
- Category: locality
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.5362° or 54° 32′ 10″ northLongitude
-5.56046° or 5° 33′ 38″ westPopulation
939Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
9C6PGCPQ+FROpenStreetMap ID
node 267762431OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2647905Wikidata ID
Q135049
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Swedish—“Greyabbey” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Greyabbey”
- Basque: “Greyabbey”
- Bulgarian: “Греябей”
- Cebuano: “Greyabbey”
- Chinese: “格雷亞比”
- Chinese: “格雷阿比谷”
- Dutch: “Greyabbey”
- French: “Greyabbey”
- Hebrew: “גרייאבי”
- Irish: “Mainistir Liath”
- Italian: “Greyabbey”
- Malay: “Greyabbey”
- Pali: “ग्रेयाब्बेय”
- Persian: “گریاببی”
- Spanish: “Greyabbey”
- Swedish: “Greyabbey”
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