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White Abbey, also known as Druin la Croix and Deulacressce, is a thirteenth-century Premonstratensian abbey located in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. The site lies on bedrock of the Mercia Mudstone Group, formed during the Rhaetian period and comprising mudstone, sandstone and limestone deposits that would have influenced both construction methods and the abbey's drainage systems. As a house of the Premonstratensian order, this was an important centre of religious life during the medieval period, when the order's communities combined monastic contemplation with active pastoral work across the surrounding countryside.
The abbey's landscape position on mixed geology provided stone for building and a foundation suited to the substantial structures required for a religious community. Its survival as an archaeological site, protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 4380, preserves evidence of monastic occupation and the spatial organisation of religious life in thirteenth-century Ulster. The multiple names by which the abbey is known—including the Irish *Druin la Croix* and *Deulacressce*—reflect the layering of linguistic and cultural history across this important ecclesiastical site.
White abbey, druin la croix, deulacressce. premonstratensian abbey is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 4380. View the official record →
White Abbey, also known as Druin la Croix and Deulacressce, is a thirteenth-century Premonstratensian abbey located in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 4380.
White abbey, druin la croix, deulacressce. premonstratensian abbey dates from the c13th period, and is classified as a ecclesiastical site. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
White abbey, druin la croix, deulacressce. premonstratensian abbey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 4380.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Twin slipways, ihr no. 10486 (6.5 km), Hamilton graving dock. hamilton graving dock - c.f. ihr 10486 (6.8 km), Clarendon dock (northern). graving dock (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of White abbey, druin la croix, deulacressce. premonstratensian abbey's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
White abbey, druin la croix, deulacressce. premonstratensian abbey stands on Mercia Mudstone Group, bedrock that formed in the Rhaetian. The rock here is mudstone, sandstone and limestone.