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Downpatrick

Downpatrick is a town in in Northern Ireland. It's claimed to be the site of one of the first churches founded by Saint Patrick, at nearby Saul; this was also the place of his death and he was brought to Downpatrick for burial.
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  • Type: Town with 11,500 residents
  • Description: town in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
  • Also known as: “Down, co. Down” and “Down, County Down”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Inch Abbey and Down Cathedral.

Archaeological site
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is a ruined Cistercian monastery on the outskirts of Downpatrick, , . It was founded by John de Courcy in the 12th-century. It was dissolved in 1541.

Church
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, the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, is a cathedral located in the town of Downpatrick in .

Railway station
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The is a 5 foot, 3 inch gauge heritage railway in , . It is operated by volunteers and runs passenger trains using steam and diesel locomotives, diesel railcars, and vintage carriages.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Struell Wells and Saul.

Locality
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are a set of four holy wells in the townland of Struell, 1.5 miles east of Downpatrick, , . The wells date from before the time of Saint Patrick, and even today are used for people seeking cures.

Hamlet
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is a in , , within the civil parish of and Ballee. The village lies to the east of Downpatrick and has strong links with Saint Patrick.

Downpatrick

Latitude
54.3279° or 54° 19′ 41″ north
Longitude
-5.7165° or 5° 42′ 59″ west
Population
11,500
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB DWK
Open location code
9C6P87HM+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267762719
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2651023
Wiki­data ID
Q1024917
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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: “Downpatrick”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Swedish: “Dún Phádraig”
  • Ukrainian: “Даунпатрік”
  • Urdu: “ڈاونپیٹرک”
  • Welsh: “Downpatrick”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Downpatrick”. Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.