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Downpatrick noun
- a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
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And the claims of Downpatrick to this great honor are not seriously disputed.
William Eleroy Curtis
The most ancient and celebrated is the abbey or cathedral of Downpatrick.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6
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He it was that resided in Derlus, to the south of Dun-leth-glaise (Downpatrick).
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick
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At Downpatrick, where he built his cathedral, he took a little fawn which his men would have killed, and carried it in his breast.
Katharine Tynan
It is a much more primitive structure than those at the Struel Wells, near Downpatrick.
Elizabeth Andrews