Community digging up history in Downpatrick
Archaeologists believe they have discovered the site of a 12th Century monastery that was destroyed in 1177.
The Cistercian monastery is near Downpatrick and was known as Erenagh.
It was built 50 years before Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy's invasion of Ulster.
A community excavation of the site has found pottery, slate and a medieval coin.
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