Grey Abbey, Down

Grey Abbey
An Mhainistir Liath
Monastery information
OrderCistercian
Established1193
People
Founder(s)Affreca de Courcy
Architecture
StatusInactive
Site
Public accessYes

Grey Abbey (Irish: An Mhainistir Liath)[1] is a ruined Cistercian priory in Greyabbey, County Down, Northern Ireland. Currently maintained by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, it is a monument in state care in the townland of Rosemount, on the eastern edge of the village of Greyabbey in the Ards and North Down local government district.[2][3]

  1. ^ "An Mhainistir Liath/Grey Abbey". logainm.ie. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Grey Abbey" (PDF). Environment and Heritage Service NI – State Care Historic Monuments. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2007.
  3. ^ Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland (1983). Historic Monuments of Northern Ireland. Belfast: HMSO. p. 102.

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