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Greyabbey Walking Guide The Bells of Greyabbey St Saviour’s Church of Ireland The Wildfowler Inn 4 7 Just up from the Abbey on the new bells to the church. Although these As you proceed down Main Street towards The role of the coaching inn was a major Ballywalter Road you will see St were hung for full circle ringing they were greyabbey Bay you will notice on your part of the inland transport infrastructure Saviour’s Church of Ireland. The bells in fact chimed. The most likely reason for left side a traditional coaching Inn now to serve coach travellers. Many, like the of greyabbey Church are heavily this is that there was no-one in the area known as The Wildfowler Inn. Coaching Wildfowler, do survive and have become associated with the Montgomery family. who would have known how to ring them inns were common across Europe and pubs and restaurants. The original greyabbey bell was one of full circle. date from the mid 17th century onwards. several bells given to local churches by For many years the bells of greyabbey For more information contact any of the Viscount Montgomery in the early 17th were classified as unringable. Recently following Visitor Information Centres: century. Unfortunately the greyabbey however, the Montgomery family and the Greyabbey Primary School bell, now known as “Old gomery”, Bangor Northern District of the Irish Association 8 is the only one of these bells that of Change Ringers (IACR) had the existing Ards Visitor Information Centre still survives. greyabbey Public Elementary School, in the literary subjects is good and shows three bells refurbished and three new or grey Abbey Primary School as it has that they have been carefully attended to. 31 Regent Street Newtownards In 1871 Francis Montgomery, a bells installed. been since 1948, was built in 1887, the Kindergarten has been introduced NEWTOWNARDS descendent of the Viscount, gave three year of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. Officially since the last examination with BT23 4AD 028 9182 6846 Belfast opened in 1888, the school has to date promising results.” S k [email protected] Greyabbey employed seven principal teachers, the By 1904, the school has 106 children, first being Miss Eleanor Patterson. Miss Trinity Church and by 1973, there were 122 on the roll. Lizzie Warnock had previously been the Bangor Visitor Information Centre 5 In 1988 there was an extension built with only teacher in the school from 1892- Tower House, 34 Quay Street Presbyterians have worshipped beside the Abbey. Due to a split in the new toilets and entrance hall, then, for 1900. In 1901, the District Inspector BANgOR Downpatrick in greyabbey since 1650. congregation, the current church was the Millennium, the new hall, staff room reported that: “The number of pupils on B20 5ED The Presybterian Minister in founded in 1829. The first minister and office were completed. the rolls is 86. I find the efficiency of the S 028 9127 0069 1798, the Rev James Porter was was Rev John Watson. The church was schools fairly satisfactory. The proficiency k [email protected] hanged on 2 July 1798 as a described in 1836 as being “very plain consequence of the 1798 rebellion. with dimensions of 57 by 27 feet and Grey Abbey He is buried in the old graveyard could hold 288 people.” (Seasonal office Easter – end August) Greyabbey Bay Portaferry Visitor Information Centre 9 The Stables, Castle Street Hoops Courtyard Just around the bend from Main Street in the Bay. It was carved from a single PORTAFERRY 6 you will come across Strangford Lough. piece of oak around 5000 years ago BT22 1NZ and is the oldest boat discovered in S 028 4272 9882 The courtyard is cobbled stone and On the left hand side of the road you will Ireland in a marine setting. Moving it comprises of little antique shops, see the estate wall and behind this is to a museum setting for preservation a florist and coffee shop. greyabbey lake. There are usually a few (Seasonal office Easter – end August) would have been extremely costly so it @VisitStrangford swans in view at any given time. Cockle Row Visitor Information Centre has been left in situ where the mud of Greyabbey The Harbour, Main Street In greyabbey bay large flocks of migrant the Bay will help preserve it for a few gROOMSPORT /VisitStrangfordLough birds congregate to feed at low tide. years yet! BT19 6JR For this reason you are asked not to walk 028 9127 2269 Walking on the beach you may find S Walking Guide on the shore in winter in case you disturb curved piles of stones. These are the their feeding source. remains of medieval fish traps. The flat sandy beach extends for miles There are intertidal mussel beds on the Please Note: This document may be at low tide and you can see the wooded stonier parts of the shore and cockles available in alternative formats on request. shores of Mid Island and South Island. buried in the sand. Near isolated stones It is possible to walk out to the Islands at you can sometimes find hundreds of low tide but it is not recommend as the empty cockle shells where the oyster 13317 tide can turn quite quickly. catchers have been at work smashing Recently a 9 metre long log boat dating open their prey. Ards and North Down Borough Council presents the information as a public service, and while every effort has been made to ensure its accuracy, the Council cannot accept responsibility and assumes no liability for any action undertaken by any person using the information back to Neolithic times was discovered contained herein. The content of this guide is copyright of Ards and North Down Borough Council and should not be reused without permission. visitstrangfordlough.co.uk St Saviour’s Church of Ireland 1 Grey Abbey 5 Trinity Church Greyabbey 2 Physic Garden 6 Hoops Courtyard Historical 3 Greyabbey House 7 The Wildfowler Inn Let’s begin the walking trail 4 The Bells of Greyabbey St 8 Greyabbey Primary School Map Saviour’s Church of Ireland, 9 Greyabbey Bay Walking Trail of Ballywalter Road, Greyabbey Greyabbey, Co Down Grey Abbey 1 The abbey was founded by Affreca, were executed by the Commissioner The main route The tour will last This is signed at the daughter of godred, the King of Mann of Public Works. Unfortunately, an Greyabbey House consists of generally roughly one hour mini roundabout at and the Isles, and wife of John De Courcy. excessive amount of concrete was flat concrete footpaths approximately which the centre of the Architecturally it is important as the first used, the crudity of which is still fully gothic style building in Ulster; it is obvious today. with pedestrian will provide time village. For your 4 the first fully stone church in which every The remains of the abbey include Physic Garden crossing opportunities. for you to enjoy the convenience, there are 2 window arch and door was pointed rather the abbey church and some of the Please be aware when tour. There is a car also public toilets and than round headed. conventual buildings, dating from c. [located in the grounds of grey Abbey] no visual records of these gardens crossing the road and park situated on the a wide range of cafes Tradition says that Affreca founded 1193- c. 1250. The original plan of the In medieval Ireland, abbeys had their remain, the new physic garden at the keep an eye out for Ballywalter Road for and restaurants monastery can be followed with ease own gardens such as orchards, kitchen 12th century grey Abbey is a notional 2 1 the abbey in thanksgiving for a safe traffic at all times. visitors to the Abbey. in greyabbey. landing after a perilous journey at sea. through foundations and earthworks. gardens and sometimes a physic garden. reconstruction based on much general The abbey was colonised by monks The abbot’s seat has been preserved. Filled with plants which were useful in research on gardens of its period. Small from Holmcultram in Cumberland, with It is fitted inside a pointed arch and one way or another in the treatment of beds, enabling the precious medicinal 3 which it maintained close ties in the flanked by detached colonettes. illness, the physic garden was a valuable plants to be cultivated and cropped We hope you enjoy learning more about the area. Be sure to early years. The construction of the stone Corbel tables are also a rarity in asset to a monastery infirmary. from all sides, are assembled into a Ireland, but the Cistercians can boast small but elegant design. Please note look out for the other walking guides in the series. These can church began almost immediately. The Cistercians were largely vegetarian two of them, one at Tintern and one that access to the Abbey and garden be downloaded from www.visitstrangfordlough.co.uk along and were keen to live by their own In 1222 and again in 1237 abbots of at grey Abbey. Here the corbels were is during the summer months only. labour; they involved themselves in food with ideas on what to see and do in the area. We appreciate grey Abbey went on to become abbots of inserted when the roof was raised, For more information please telephone production and produced medicines for your comments and suggestions so please contact us via Holmcultram. probably in the early fifteenth century. 028 9082 3214. themselves and their animals. Because the website. The Latin name of the abbey is Iugum There are eight of them altogether, Dei, which means ‘Yoke of god’.
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