Durrow, County Laois
{{Short description|Village in County Laois, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=September 2015}}
{{Infobox settlement
|settlement_type = Village
|name = Durrow
|native_name = {{lang|ga|Darú}}
|native_name_lang = ga
|image_skyline = View of Durrow.jpg
|image_caption = Gate lodge at the entrance to Castle Durrow
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|coordinates = {{coord|52.8442|-07.3925|dim:100000_region:IE|display=inline,title}}
|blank_name_sec1 = Irish Grid Reference
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = Ireland
|subdivision_type1 = Province
|subdivision_name1 = Leinster
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = County Laois
|unit_pref = Metric
|elevation_m = 95
|population_as_of = 2016
|population = 835
|population_footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=2D6C8764-8D24-40CD-9180-DEC0E11F3826 |title=Sapmap Area - Settlements - Durrow |work=Census 2016 |publisher=Central Statistics Office Ireland |date=April 2016 |access-date=26 January 2020 }}
|website = {{URL|www.durrow.ie}}
}}
Durrow ({{Irish place name|Darú}},{{cite web | url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1416674 | title = Darú/Durrow | publisher = Placenames Database of Ireland | website = logainm.ie | access-date = 7 October 2021}} formerly Darmhagh Ua nDuach) is a village located in south-east County Laois, Ireland.{{Cite web |title=Durrow |url=https://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/heritage-towns/towns-and-villages-of-lao/durrow/ |access-date=2022-08-29 |website=www.askaboutireland.ie}}{{Cite web |date=2019-07-25 |title="A Tale of Two Counties"- Durrow Co. Laois |url=http://laoisarchaeology.ie/a-tale-of-two-counties-durrow-co-laois/ |access-date=2022-08-29 |website=Laois Archaeology |language=en-US}} Bypassed by the M8 motorway on 28 May 2010, the village is located on the R639 road at its junction with the N77. The River Erkina flows through Durrow and joins the River Nore about 1.5 km east of the village.
The village takes its name from the Irish Darmhagh Ua nDuach (meaning 'the oak plain [in the territory] of Ui Duach'). It is in a civil parish of the same name.
History
File:Upper Ossory map 1797.png of County Kilkenny until 1842.]]
The earliest recorded church in the village was in 1155. Evidence from the Archaeological Survey carried out by the Office of Public Works in 1995 suggests that this area has been visited, if not inhabited, since as early as the Bronze Age. An urn-burial found on the lands of Moyne Estate dates roughly to the same period as those found at iron mills and Ballymartin (900–1400BC). Fulachta Fiadh (early cooking sites) have been identified at Aharney and near Ballacolla. The ring forts and other enclosures that dot the landscape point to a more permanent, if dispersed, settlement of the land by the Celts (500BC–500AD). At some point in pre-history, the land was part of the Kingdom of Ossory, and remained so as part of Upper Ossory into the seventeenth century.
Numerous religious settlements in the area date back to the 6th century. While the monastery founded by St. Fintan on the banks of the Erkina is perhaps the best renowned, documented evidence exists for other such establishments at Dunmore, Clonageera, Dereen, the Course wood, Tinweir, Ballinaslee, Tubberboe and Newtown.
The coming of the Normans in the 12th century sounded the death knell for many of these early Christian settlements and the lands were subsumed (despite heated objections from the Earls Marshall, who wanted it for themselves) into the Manor of Durrow, an Episcopal Manor for the Bishops of Ossory. Indeed, it was this development that sowed the seeds for the establishment of the town of Durrow as we now know it. In 1245, Geoffrey de Turville, Bishop of Ossory from 1244 to 1250, was granted permission from the King to hold a yearly fair at this manor for six days beginning on St. Swithin's Day and a weekly market on a Thursday.
After the Reformation, the manor passed into the ownership of the Earl of Ormond. In 1600, when Upper Ossory was made part of Queen's County (now Laois), Ormond ensured that Durrow remained an enclave of County Kilkenny where he was based.{{cite book|last=Carrigan|first=William |author-link=William Carrigan |title=The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyandantiq03carrgoog#page/n240/mode/1up|volume=2|year=1905|publisher=Sealy, Bryers & Walker|location=Dublin |page=220}}
{{cite book|last1=Phelan|author-link=Margaret Phelan|first1=Margaret M.|last2=Kirwan|first2=John|title=Kilkenny: studies in honour of Margaret M. Phelan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5YwiAQAAIAAJ|access-date=13 October 2012|date=March 1997|publisher=Kilkenny Archaeological Society|page=62|isbn=9780950168791|archive-date=12 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312132204/https://books.google.com/books?id=5YwiAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}} Ormond released the manor on 19 February 1708 to "William Flower and his heirs, forever". It was under the patronage of Flower and his descendants, the Lords Ashbrook, that the present town developed and prospered. In 1841–42 it was transferred from Kilkenny to Queen's County.{{cite book |title=The Statutory Rules and Orders Revised, being the Statutory Rules and Orders (Other Than Those of a Local, Personal Or Temporary Character) in force on December 31, 1903 |edition=2nd |chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hl562h;view=1up;seq=770 |access-date=10 March 2017 |volume=2 |pages=58–61 |year=1904 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |chapter=County (Ireland); (n) Kilkenny }}
Climate
A weather station broadcasts from Durrow providing real-time data. The station was set up in May 2008. It is a Davis ProVantage 2 station and monitors temperature, rain, wind, wind direction, humidity and atmospheric pressure. Also, a Met Éireann climate station (472) was installed in 2010 and the observations are sent to Dublin on a monthly basis. The climatological station measures rainfall in a manual gauge, soil temperatures at depths of 5 cm, 10 cm and 20 cm, and air temperatures including wet-bulb, daily max, daily min and grass minimum temperatures. The station is envisaged to last thirty years and establish a climate profile for Durrow.
The weather of the town can be described as temperate with rare extremes when compared to other locations around the world. However, when looking at the observations and comparing it to other locations around Ireland it is notable that Durrow is amongst the warmest locations in the country during the summer and the coldest in winter. The record high temperature of 32.1c was recorded during the heatwave of Mid-August 2022 and set a new National record for Ireland for the month of August,{{Cite tweet |user= METclimate| author = Irish Observational Climatology |date= 15 August 2022 | author-link= Met Éireann |number=1559131252590002177 |title= For the second day running the all-time Ireland Max Temp record for August was provisionally broken, with our climate station in Durrow, Co Laois reaching 32.1°C }} whilst the record low temperature of -14.0c was recorded on Christmas morning 2010.
The table below was last updated on 16 August 2022.
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|Jan record high C= 15.7
|Feb record high C= 15.0
|Mar record high C= 19.8
|Apr record high C= 22.8
|May record high C= 25.4
|Jun record high C= 31.3
|Jul record high C= 31.2
|Aug record high C= 32.1
|Sep record high C= 28.3
|Oct record high C= 20.5
|Nov record high C= 16.8
|Dec record high C= 14.8
|year record high C= 32.1
|Jan high C= 7.9
|Feb high C= 8.3
|Mar high C= 10.5
|Apr high C= 12.8
|May high C= 15.7
|Jun high C= 18.3
|Jul high C= 20.0
|Aug high C= 19.7
|Sep high C= 17.3
|Oct high C= 13.7
|Nov high C= 10.2
|Dec high C= 8.2
|year high C= 13.6
|Jan mean C= 4.8
|Feb mean C= 5.0
|Mar mean C= 6.7
|Apr mean C= 8.4
|May mean C= 10.9
|Jun mean C= 13.7
|Jul mean C= 15.5
|Aug mean C= 15.2
|Sep mean C= 13.0
|Oct mean C= 10.0
|Nov mean C= 6.9
|Dec mean C= 5.1
|year mean C= 9.6
|Jan low C= 1.7
|Feb low C= 1.7
|Mar low C= 2.9
|Apr low C= 4.0
|May low C= 6.1
|Jun low C= 9.1
|Jul low C= 11.0
|Aug low C= 10.7
|Sep low C= 8.7
|Oct low C= 6.3
|Nov low C= 3.6
|Dec low C= 2.0
|year low C= 5.6
|Jan record low C= -11.3
|Feb record low C= -5.6
|Mar record low C= -9.7
|Apr record low C= -6.3
|May record low C= -2.4
|Jun record low C= 0.6
|Jul record low C= 4.1
|Aug record low C= 2.6
|Sep record low C= -1.6
|Oct record low C= -3.4
|Nov record low C= -8.7
|Dec record low C= -14.0
|year record low C= -14.0
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|Jan rain mm = 92.0
|Feb rain mm = 67.0
|Mar rain mm = 71.0
|Apr rain mm = 62.0
|May rain mm = 65.0
|Jun rain mm = 66.0
|Jul rain mm = 65.0
|Aug rain mm = 81.0
|Sep rain mm = 72.0
|Oct rain mm = 100.0
|Nov rain mm = 90.0
|Dec rain mm = 89.0
|year rain mm = 920.0
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|Jan humidity= 80
|Feb humidity= 74
|Mar humidity= 68
|Apr humidity= 64
|May humidity= 64
|Jun humidity= 65
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|Sep humidity= 69
|Oct humidity= 76
|Nov humidity= 78
|Dec humidity= 82
|year humidity= 71
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|Jan rain days= 13
|Feb rain days= 12
|Mar rain days= 12
|Apr rain days= 10
|May rain days= 11
|Jun rain days= 10
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|Nov rain days= 12
|Dec rain days= 13
|year rain days= 135
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|Jan snow days= 3.6
|Feb snow days= 3.6
|Mar snow days= 2.5
|Apr snow days= 0.8
|May snow days= 0.1
|Jun snow days= 0.0
|Jul snow days= 0.0
|Aug snow days= 0.0
|Sep snow days= 0.0
|Oct snow days= 0.0
|Nov snow days= 0.1
|Dec snow days= 2.0
|year snow days= 12.8
|Jan sun = 55.8
|Feb sun = 64.4
|Mar sun = 99.2
|Apr sun = 147.0
|May sun = 173.6
|Jun sun = 147.0
|Jul sun = 145.7
|Aug sun = 145.7
|Sep sun = 124.0
|Oct sun = 93.0
|Nov sun = 66.0
|Dec sun = 49.6
|year sun = 1314.0
|source 1={{cite web|url = http://www.durrowvillage.com/visitors-guide/weather | website = durrowvillage.com | title = Visitors guide - Weather }}{{dead link|date=October 2021}}{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}
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Sport
The local Gaelic Athletic Association club, The Harps, was formed in the 1980s following the amalgamation of former clubs representing Durrow and nearby Cullohill.{{cite web|url=https://www.gaa.ie/the-gaa/oral-history/members-the-harps-durrow-gaa-club/|title=Members of The Harps–Durrow GAA Club|date=29 September 2010|accessdate=12 November 2022}} Lions A.F.C. was a local soccer club which, as of 2022, had folded.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}
Laois Kayak and Canoe Club is a kayaking club based in the area.{{cite web|url = http://www.laoiskayak.com | website = laoiskayak.com | title = Laois Kayak and Canoe Club | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223194823/http://www.laoiskayak.com/ |archivedate=23 December 2020 }}
Transport
TFI Local Link routes 828 and 858, operated by JJ Kavanaghs as of 2021,{{cite web |title=TFI Local Link Laois-Offaly announce details of new bus service connecting Portlaoise to Thurles |url=https://www.laoistoday.ie/2021/06/23/tfi-local-link-laois-offaly-announce-details-of-new-bus-service-connecting-portlaoise-to-thurles/ |website=laoisetoday.ie |access-date=13 April 2024 |date=23 June 2021}} serve Durrow on the Portlaoise to Cashel and Thurles route. {{cite web|url = https://locallinktipperary.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/TFI-LL-Laois-OffalyTipperary-May2021.V4.pdf | website =locallinktipperary.ie | title = Route 828 & 858 - Cashel/Thurles/Urlingford to Portlaoise - Timetable | accessdate = 12 August 2024 }} Slieve Bloom Coaches operate a town link service, from Borris in Ossory to Portlaoise, which serves the town. This used to only operate on weekdays,{{cite web|url = https://www.slievebloomcoaches.ie/borrisinossory_18.html | website = slievebloomcoaches.ie| title = Borris in Ossory 18 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20240601005008/https://www.slievebloomcoaches.ie/borrisinossory_18.html |archivedate=1 June 2024 }} but was extended to operate on weekends and bank holidays.{{fact|date=August 2024}} Bus Éireann's Expressway and Aircoach service between Dublin and Cork ceased to serve Durrow in June 2012. As an interim measure until November 2012, Bus Éireann operated a shuttle service (route 128) to connect with Expressway services at Portlaoise.{{cite web|url = http://buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=251#July_1 | website = buseireann.ie | title = Timetable News - July 2012 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120728170814/http://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=251#July_1 |archivedate=28 July 2012 }}
Amenities
There are a number of walks and cycle paths around the Durrow area. These include the Leafy Loop which runs by the River Nore.{{cite web |title=Durrow Tourist Guide |url=http://www.durrow.ie/tourist-guide/ |website=durrow.ie |publisher=Village of Durrow |access-date=13 April 2024}} There is also woodland in the vicinity of Durrow, such as Bishops Wood, which extends on both sides of the R693 regional road (Dublin - Cork road). The river Erkina, a tributary of the River Nore, is also in the area.
Scarecrow festival
Durrow's "Scarecrow Festival" takes place during the summer, and involves people from the area making their own scarecrows. The festival first took place in 2009, and was nominated for "Best Festival of 2012 and 2013" in the Irish Times Ticket Awards. The 2020 and 2021 events were cancelled as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland.{{cite web|url=http://www.durrowscarecrowfestival.com|title=Durrow Scarecrow Festival| website = durrowscarecrowfestival.com | access-date=2015-07-13|archive-date=16 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616131819/https://durrowscarecrowfestival.com/|url-status=live}}
People
{{See also|Category:People from Durrow, County Laois}}
- George Brownrigg (1896–1981), first-class cricketer{{cite web | url = https://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10093.html | publisher = ESPN | work = Cricinfo | title = Players - George Brownrigg | access-date = 14 October 2020 | archive-date = 27 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170927204044/http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10093.html | url-status = live }}
- William Carrigan (1860–1924), priest and historian who was born in County Kilkenny and was a Roman Catholic parish priest in Durrow{{cite news |title=Carrigan, William (1860–1924) |url=https://www.ainm.ie/Bio.aspx?ID=1825 |accessdate=13 April 2024 |website = ainm.ie|publisher=The National Database of Irish Biographies |date=8 September 2015 |language=Irish}}
- Arthur Moore (1765–1846), politician and judge{{citation needed|date=November 2022}}
- Seán J. White (1927–1996), writer, academic, broadcaster and journalist{{cite web|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/sean-j-white-1.99082 | publisher = Irish Times | website = irishtimes.com | title = Sean J White | date = 24 October 1996 | access-date = 14 October 2020 }}
- Thomas A. White (1931–2017), Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat{{cite web | url = https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/06/22/former-papal-nuncio-new-zealand-dies-ireland/ | publisher = Catholic Diocese of Auckland | website = nzcatholic.org.nz | title = Former Papal Nuncio to New Zealand dies in Ireland | date = 22 June 2017 | access-date = 14 October 2020 | archive-date = 18 September 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200918101810/https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/06/22/former-papal-nuncio-new-zealand-dies-ireland/ | url-status = live }}
See also
References
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External links
{{commons|Durrow (Laois)}}
- [http://www.durrow.ie/ Durrow Online Community Website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120312153214/http://www.irelandundiscovered.com/the-villages/durrow/history/ History of Durrow]
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110923005347/http://www.irishmidlandsancestry.com/content/laois/community/parishhistories/durrow_parish.htm History of the Parish of Durrow]}}
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