Durrow
Durrow is a village located in south-east County Laois, Ireland. Bypassed by the M8 motorway on 28 May 2010, the village is located on the R639 road at its junction with the N77.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 835 residents
- Description: town in County Laois, Ireland
- Also known as: “Durrow, County Laois”
- Historically known as: “Darmhagh Ua nDuach”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Durrow Church and Castle Durrow.
Castle Durrow
House
Photo: GunnerPoulsen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castle Durrow is an 18th-century country house in Durrow, County Laois, Ireland. The house was built in the pre-Palladian design and formal gardens that were popular in the 18th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballacolla and Cullohill.
Ballacolla
Village
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Ballacolla, officially Ballycolla, is a village in County Laois, Ireland. It sits at the crossroads of the R433 and R434 regional roads, 8 km southwest of Abbeyleix and 4 km northeast of junction 3 of the M8 motorway. Ballacolla is situated 5 km northwest of Durrow.
Cullohill
Village
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Abbeyleix is a town in County Laois in the midlands of Ireland, with a population of 1770 in 2016. The abbey was Cistercian, founded in 1183 in the valley of the River Nore, and the original settlement grew up around it. Cullohill is situated 6 km southwest of Durrow.
Ballyragget
Village
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Castlecomer is the largest town in north County Kilkenny in southeast Ireland, with a population in 2016 of about 1500. In Irish Caisleán an Chomair is "castle of the confluence", meaning the Norman castle at the confluence of the Dinin, Brocagh and Cloghogue small rivers. Ballyragget is situated 8 km southeast of Durrow.
Durrow
- Category: locality
- Location: County Laois, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.84566° or 52° 50′ 44″ northLongitude
-7.39571° or 7° 23′ 45″ westPopulation
835Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE DOWOpen location code
9C4JRJW3+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 52222675OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Durrow” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Durrow”
- Basque: “Durrow”
- Cebuano: “Durrow”
- Dutch: “Durrow”
- German: “Durrow”
- Irish: “Darú, Contae Laoise”
- Irish: “Darú”
- Lithuanian: “Darou”
- Lithuanian: “Djurovas”
- Lithuanian: “Durrow”
- Polish: “Durrow”
- Russian: “Дарроу”
- Silesian: “Durrow”
- Spanish: “Durrow”
- Swedish: “Darú”
- Swedish: “Durrow”
- “Durrow”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Durrow Library and Durrow Post Office.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Durrow”. Photo: Peter Clarke, CC BY 3.0.