No trace
of the Monastery of Erynagh founded in 1126 or 7 according to Samuel
Lewis (1837) by Magnell Makenlefe, King of Ulster, Lewis goes on
to explain
"This abbey
was garrisoned against De Courcy in 1177, who, for that reason,
levelled it with the ground and transferred its possessions to the
abbey of Inch, which he subsequently founded in the Isle of Inis
Courcy, on the ruins of a pagan temple. A circle of upright stones
and other Druidical remains are still existing near the spot."
The monastery once stood on
or adjacent to the Erynagh Road to the west of the town of Downpatrick
not far from Ballynoe Stone Circle
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