Inch Abbey

Inch Abbey is a big, ruined monastic website online 0.75 miles north-west of Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, at the north bank of the River Quoile in a hollow between two drumlins and featuring early Gothic architecture. The web site is in general in State Care and is at grid ref: J477455, off the principle avenue to Belfast. The web site was initially on an island inside the Quoile Marshes. The pre-Norman Celtic monastic agreement right here, known as Inis Cumhscraigh, turned into in existence with the aid of the yr 800.

In 1002 it become plundered by the Vikings led via Sitric, King of the Danes, who came up the Quoile with a fleet from the sea. The Vikings plundered the agreement again in 1149. Its large earthwork enclosure has been traced from aerial photos. On the floor, the early bank and ditch can be followed alongside the line of trees at the japanese boundary of the web site, and partly alongside the western boundary. The buildings of the early monastery might have been fabricated from wooden.