page_title: Loughbrickland
section_title: Places of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Loughbrickland / Places of interest
caption_attribution_description: English: Loughbrickland lake near Banbridge (2) See also 263573. This is the section of the lake in this square seen from the Greenan Road (the road from Poyntzpass). The crannog is on the right and the Belfast-Dublin road runs from left to right in the foreground.
context_page_description: Loughbrickland is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland, south of Banbridge on the main Belfast to Dublin road. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 693. Loughbrickland is within the Banbridge District.
context_section_description: The Loughbrickland ringfort, in the townland of Coolnacran, is a high status bivallate fort around 30.5 metres (100 ft) across. It dates to early Christian times. Besides Loughbrickland Crannóg, there is also reputed to have been a second crannog in the area, in a lake which is now Meenan bog, in the townland of Lisnagonnell.
  Lewis's description of Aghaderg Parish from the Topographical Dictionary of Ireland states, "about half a mile to the south-west of Loughbrickland are three upright stones, called  The Three Sisters of Greenan, apparently the remains of an ancient cromlech: they are situated on a gentle eminence, and near them is a fourth lying in a ditch." While the fourth stone seems to have been forgotten in recent times, The Three Sisters came to be associated with a short alignment of three standing stones in the townland of Greenan, whose name comes from grianan, "the place of the sun", hinting that the stones may have been the site of midsummer and midwinter rituals. Only two of the original stones remains standing.
  The remains of Water Hill Fort (Dun Uisce) stand on a hill to the south of the lake.
  Local tradition refers to an early monastic foundation, a Franciscan house, which is believed to have prospered in the townland of Drumsallagh from the early fifteenth century until 1569, when it suffered suppression under Elizabeth I. It lies in the valley to the west of the village. A manuscript attributed to Rev. John Deth, first Protestant Vicar of Aghaderg, claims that the monastery was quarried to provide building materials for the original Church of Ireland church in Loughbrickland, constructed in 1600. The manuscript also records that, according to information he received from one of the friars, the remains of the three aforementioned saints of Meenan had been previously reinterred in the chapel of the Franciscan monastery.
caption: Loughbrickland Lake and the A1 road (Northern Ireland)
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