Baile na Mainistreach

Baile na Mainistreach, 'the town of the abbey,' takes its name from the Premonstratensian monastery of Druim La Croix established at Whiteabbey in the late 12th century. The abbey, a daughter house of Dryburgh Abbey in Scotland, housed the White Canons of the Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré. The monastery remained active until at least the early modern period, with visible ruins persisting...