A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim . Antiquities. 73 situated on the shores of Strangford Lough. This was aCistercian house, and was founded in 1193 by Affreca, wifeof John de Courci, and daughter of Ciodfrey, king of to Downpatrick are the remains of Inch Abbey,which must also have been a very extensive house ; but thechoir alone remains, of considerable beauty, with its longlancet INTIl \V.\:V\. At Newtownards, the nave of what was a fair-sizedDominican abbey still remains. It was long used as a parishchurch, and is now used as a burial-place by the Lond
A guide to Belfast and the counties of Down & Antrim . Antiquities. 73 situated on the shores of Strangford Lough. This was aCistercian house, and was founded in 1193 by Affreca, wifeof John de Courci, and daughter of Ciodfrey, king of to Downpatrick are the remains of Inch Abbey,which must also have been a very extensive house ; but thechoir alone remains, of considerable beauty, with its longlancet INTIl \V.\:V\. At Newtownards, the nave of what was a fair-sizedDominican abbey still remains. It was long used as a parishchurch, and is now used as a burial-place by the London-derry family. Other abbeys there are none, save the poor little lateFranciscan house of Bun-na-Margie, on the north coast,near Ballycastle, which however occupies a glorious siteand has a romantic history.^ The Normans never attaineda firm foothold in Leister, save in the strongholds ofDownpatrick and Carrickfergus, and thus had no oppor-tunities for founding houses suitable for the great religious ^ Bun-na-Margie, by F. J. Bigger. Special Part of Ulster Jo-urnal ofArch(€ology. MCaw, Stevenson & Orr, Ltd., Belfast. 274 Guide to Belfast. orders. The early Irish monastic system was quite differentfrom the Norman, and had very few features in commonwith it. F. J. B. Castles. Long before the raths or crannoges fell into disuse through-out our district, substantial castles were built of stone andmortar, part
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