![]() ![]() Including the perfectly preserved Down County Museum at Downpatrick’s Old Jail. Furthermore, Down has many museums and records of times past across the County. The Ferguson Linen Centre in Banbridge and the award-winning Irish Linen Centre and Museum at Lisburn. Following the history of the flax flower fabric from the 17th century to the present day. Affectionately known as ‘The Linen Homelands’, it is still the centre for Irish Linen. While the shoreline of Lough Neagh, shared disproportionately with four other counties, borders the northwest.Ĭounty Down is the most industrialised region in Northern Ireland, encompassing urban and parts of greater Belfast. The city of Belfast is itself met at the peripheries, in the north of the county. Map of County Down The Heart of Downĭown is Ireland’s most easterly county, bordered by Armagh and Antrim. Both are also two counties located in Northern Ireland. Alongside fellow patron saints Brigit and Columba. They end in his death his granite tomb carved out of the Mourne Mountains, underpins the cathedral at Downpatrick where he is supposedly interned. ![]() Where it is believed that St.Patrick conducted his first mass in Ireland. The county’s ties to Saint Patrick begin in the township of Saul. ![]() With its various scenery attractions no part of it combines as much as the heart of County Down. Consider the glorious walks in the Mourne Mountains, to rolling farmland with cosy village pubs, to birdwatching on the mudflats of Strangford Lough, you’ll want to take an eventful tour around the whole county of Down to explore it all.Ĭounty Down takes its name from the county town of Downpatrick (from the Irish, Dún Pádraig, sometimes translated as “Patrick’s Stronghold”). ![]() Northern Ireland is considered to be one of the most alluring countries in the northern hemisphere. ![]()
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