Durrow Church and High Cross

Durrow church, in the centre of Durrow graveyard, dates to the late medieval period. The church is built on an earlier monastery founded here by St. Columcille in 566. The church was described in 1682-5 by Bishop Dopping as being a ‘parochial church belonging to the Monastery of Durrow. Church and chancel ill repaired. Pulpit but no font. Possessed no bells, a clay floor and shingled roof.’ Th...