Downpatrick
Downpatrick is a town in County Down in Northern Ireland, now governed as part of Newry, Mourne and Down District. It's best known as the place where St Patrick supposedly returned to Ireland, and his burial place, and the area is dotted with prehistoric and early Christian sites.
- Type: Town with 11,500 residents
- Description: town in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Down, co. Down”, “Down, County Down”, and “Dún Phádraig”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Inch Abbey and Down Cathedral.
Downpatrick and County Down Railway
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saul.
Saul
Hamlet
Downpatrick
- Category: locality
- Location: Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.3279° or 54° 19′ 41″ north
Longitude
-5.7165° or 5° 42′ 59″ west
Population
11,500
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB DWK
Open location code
9C6P87HM+5C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Welsh—“Downpatrick” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Dún Pádraig”
- Armenian: “Դաունպատրիկ”
- Asturian: “Downpatrick”
- Basque: “Downpatrick”
- Belarusian: “Даўнпатрык”
- Breton: “Dún Pádraig”
- Bulgarian: “Даунпатрик”
- Catalan: “Downpatrick”
- Cebuano: “Downpatrick”
- Central Kurdish: “داونپاتریک”
- Chinese: “唐帕特里克”
- Czech: “Downpatrick”
- Dutch: “Downpatrick”
- French: “Downpatrick”
- German: “Downpatrick”
- Hebrew: “דאון פטריק”
- Irish: “Dún Pádraig”
- Italian: “Downpatrick”
- Japanese: “ダウンパトリック”
- Korean: “다운패트릭”
- Latin: “Dunum (Hiberniae Septentrionalis)”
- Latin: “Dunum”
- Latvian: “Daunpatrika”
- Macedonian: “Даунпатрик”
- Malay: “Downpatrick”
- Northern Frisian: “Downpatrick”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Downpatrick”
- Norwegian: “Downpatrick”
- Persian: “داونپتریک”
- Polish: “Downpatrick”
- Portuguese: “Downpatrick”
- Russian: “Даунпатрик”
- Slovak: “Downpatrick”
- Slovenian: “Downpatrick”
- Spanish: “Downpatrick”
- Swedish: “Downpatrick”
- Ukrainian: “Даунпатрік”
- Urdu: “ڈاونپیٹرک”
- Welsh: “Downpatrick”
- “Downpatrick”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Struell and Rann Quarter.
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