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Bangor Abbey Graveyard Co Down Walkround

Bangor Abbey has been in existence in one form or another since 558AD. It was founded by St Comgall and grew to become one of the most important seats of learning in Ireland, with almost 3,000 monks at the time of Comgall’s death in 601AD. Two of its most famous students, Columbanus and Gall, travelled throughout Europe setting up monasteries in Luxeuil, Bobbio and Breganz. Artefacts from the monastery’s earliest period can be viewed in North Down Museum. The most celebrated literary work to come from the monastery is the seventh century Bangor Antiphonary, a collection of hymns, prayers and poems now kept in the Ambrosian Library in Milan. Bangor’s vulnerability to attack from the sea resulted in the Abbey falling into disrepair, following many Viking raids. It was partially restored by Saint Malachy in the 12th Century, when he was Abbot in Bangor. The rubble wall remains of this stone built abbey can be seen at what is known locally as, Malachy’s Wall, the oldest surviving remnant of the Abbey, adjacent to the Old Gate Lodge. The Church of Ireland Church we see today, looking over the town entrance from Belfast, has been here since the 1833. The spire dates from 1693 and the tower from the 14th or indeed the 13th century. The graveyard is largely filled with folk who died from the 1800s onwards but I did find a number of older headstones from the mid 1700s. It does hold many old and interesting gravestones including a memorial to the assistant surgeon of the Titanic local man John Edward Simpson. (Located just before the side gate if approaching from the front of the Abbey). Significant headstones are on a very helpful coloured noticeboard down near the workman's shed in the graveyard. I had a super morning's exploration.