NEWRYABBEY

Most links found & content on this web site are brought to you from first edition historical manuscripts & or publication's showing precise statement's as written. The modern photo's are all copy right of the author, they should not be used with out permission. All are proof of the real historically recorded annals' of Newryabbey in Co Down N. Ireland. (Unless you know different) All of these book's, map's, leaflets, guides, history book's, religious writing, booklets & abbey supplements are from the author's own Library. Important references from medieval Cistercian's records along with period English State papers are included in order to show nothing but the truth in all eventualities. The author was born with in the immediate Newryabbey enclosure & spent part his youth attending the Abbey school & so he know's the whole abbey area like the back of his hand. In short he climbed the walls of the Abbey & went where he wasnt supposed to when he was a boy and of course recently, when he was found scaleing scaffold and walls to collect some of the info you find here. Naturally he discovered some scary truth's while walking through the undercrofts. He see's the recent errecting of an alleged lost English Castle that uses an abbey chapel building as being in the manner of the preverbal English Cuckoo. He finds this distortion of Newry's history as an affront to Irish culture's of all creeds. Especially to those that were nursed with in this foundation of St Patrick.

Ireland is an old country, built on the earliest bones of time, the whole country is a vast archaeological site with millions of recorded & unrecorded features that could be anything from an interesting stone discovered on a hill, to a forgotten ringfort on a hill opposite. Resonant with local attachment and deep continuities, it has the worlds most ancient historic landscapes that gives our uniqueIrish identity. Newry played a very important role in the ancient times and is recorded by the bards as doing so through out the ages. Newry is a very special place but during the past 50 years,an intensive wrecking and bulldozing of our ancient towns embankments & medieval building that are irreplaceable & the land marks used by our ancestors are all but extinct & while you may be under the illusion that Newry began only 850 years ago you are in for a big supprise. The Newryabbey was once called the college of Newry, the last time this term was used was in 1456 when Infact the Abbey went under a serious rebuilding scheme & like many others In Ireland at this period was refurbished, many of the building survived after the reformation and indeed some still survive today. Newry & Mourne say's theres none?? The worst period of destruction for the Abbey was during the Corrys dynasty, when it is believed that this once very famous Abbey was brought to the edge of extinction,(load of rubbish) by thier English love for such places. But you cant allways believe what you read, especially when it was written to decieve and cover up the likes of the story behind the 33 mutilated body's found. Many of the Abbey building were pulled down,but many were not & this abbey chapel is proof of the pudding.