Downpatrick (from Irish: Dún Pádraig, indicating "Patrick's fortress") [4] is a small town about 33 kilometres (21 mi) southern of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland. It has actually been an essential site because old times. Its cathedral is claimed to be the tomb of Saint Patrick. Today, it is the county town of Down and also the joint headquarters of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council. Downpatrick had a population of 10,822 according to the 2011 Census. As the biggest community in the Lecale area, Downpatrick is a business, leisure and administrative center for the region as well as acts as a center for the nearby towns and towns. Within a thirty minutes drive from Belfast, the location works as a traveler town for a lot of people. The community has a number of key and post-primary institutions educating students from all over the east Down location. Downpatrick is additionally renowned due to the fact that its background of St Patrick, although the community had been called after him, it is believed during the 5th century he had actually stayed in Downpatrick and also is currently hidden in Down Cathedral. Downpatrick is characterised by the rolling drumlins that are a feature of the Lecale location as well as a heritage of glaciation throughout the Pleistocene, the Down drumlins themselves are underlaid by Ordovician and Silurian shales and also grits. Its floor exists within the marshland surrounding the north eastern of the community, videotaped as being 1.3 ft (0.40 m) listed below water level. Downpatrick is roughly 22 miles (35 kilometres) from Belfast and also has a routine bus solution to the city.
