The funeral service was held in the grounds of Bangor Abbey on Saturday afternoon A funeral service has taken place for 20 people at Bangor Abbey in County Down, almost 800 years after they died.

The monastery was dissolved in the early seventheenth century. At the present time Bangor Abbey is used as a parish church and belongs to the Church of Ireland. In the church an image of Christ ...

The announcement that Abbey Street will be decorated with "cultural banners" for the twelfth of July parades for the first time this year has been met with consternation by a local councillor.

THE Friends of St Columbanus, a group of pilgrims from France, visited Bangor Abbey as part of their European Pilgrimage last week. The group has visited a number of key locations across Europe ...

Having grown up in the shadow of Bangor Abbey, I can tell readers that the ... it is from this link to the monastery at Bangor that Ireland got the name, Isle of Saints and Scholars.

North Down MP Stephen Farry, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly Alex Maskey ... The rector of Bangor Abbey, Canon Ronnie Nesbitt, opened the service. "For their family, especially for ...

The two clock faces of Bangor Abbey in County Down have been removed for the first time in 200 years as part of a restoration scheme. The clock tower, which looks out across Bangor, has been a ...

A funeral service has taken place for 20 people at Bangor Abbey in County Down, almost 800 years after they died. The remains of the 10 men, seven women and three children were discovered in 2011 ...