Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
The Old Priory Ruins
Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- No type recorded
- Address
- The Old Priory Ruins, Priory Park, Holywood, County Down, BT18 0LG
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.64312, -5.83107
- Date of survey
- 07 April 2010
- HB reference
- HB23/20/001
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
The Old Priory ruins are the remains of a late medieval ecclesiastical site, located in a burial ground at Priory Park, Holywood. The ruin is a Scheduled Monument (DOW:001002).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
The Old Priory ruins are the remains of a late medieval ecclesiastical site, located in the burial ground at Priory Park, Holywood. The ruin is a Scheduled Monument (DOW:001002) and is outside the remit of this survey.
General comments
Please note this is a Partial Record
Nearby in the register
- Withers and Henderson MemorialMemorialunder 1 mi
- 2 High StreetNo type recordedunder 1 mi
- First Holywood Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- 4 High StreetOffice - Terraceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.