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| GREY ABBEY, CO. DOWN.- This classic ruin is situated within a few miles of Mount Stewart, the Irish seat of the Marquis of Londonderry, in the historic county Down, noted, like its neighbor, county Antrim, for the bold stand made within its borders by the insurgent Presbyterian United Irishmen, against the British army, during the terrible social and political upheaval of 1798. The Abbey was founded, it is claimed, for a community of Cistercian Monks by the Princess Africa, daughter of the King of the Isle of Man and wife of the celebrated Norman military adventurer, Sir John de Courcy, in 1193. |
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