{"id":27371,"date":"2025-04-20T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/community-digging-up-relics-of-the-past\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T07:51:01","slug":"community-digging-up-relics-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/community-digging-up-relics-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Community digging up relics of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Archaeologists believe they have discovered the site of a 12th Century monastery that was destroyed in 1177.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Cistercian monastery is near Downpatrick and was known as Erenagh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">It was built 50 years before Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy&#8217;s invasion of Ulster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A community excavation of the site has found pottery, slate and a medieval coin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cn4wj0pzkgxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s invasion of Ulster. A community excavation of the site has found pottery, slate and a medieval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1958,9638,9639],"class_list":["post-27371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-community","tag-digging","tag-relics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27373,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27371\/revisions\/27373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}