An 82-mile route walking in the footsteps of St Patrick has been hailed as the North’s Camino de Santiago.
St Patrick’s Way: The Pilgrim Walk has attracted visitors from across the world to walk from Armagh, where Ireland’s national saint established his first stone church on the island more than 1,500 years ago, to his final resting place in Downpatrick.
It takes in parts of Armagh city, which boasts two cathedrals dedicated to St Patrick, the towpath along Newry Canal, the Mournes, Murlough Nature Reserve and Saul Church, which is said to be the first ecclesiastical site in Ireland.
