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About Durrow

Durrow, Darú in Irish, is a town in County Laois, 24 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the N77 and R639. The map gives it 1,613 buildings and 19 named streets, with 58 places named on them in 54 kinds, and 139 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 8th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.

Where
24 km north-west of Kilkenny, 94 km from Dublin
Position
52.8457° N, 7.3957° W, 95 m above sea level
Roads
N77 and R639
Governed
Laois County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
1,613 buildings, 19 streets, 58 named places in 54 kinds
the house where Canon W. Carrigan, historian, lived in Durrow
the house where Canon W. Carrigan, historian, lived in Durrow·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Durrow Church (church in County Laois, Ireland)
Durrow Church (church in County Laois, Ireland)·A.-K. D., CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

Durrow in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1382 to 1984. That is not a history of Durrow, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

13821984Aghaboe AbbeyThe Harps GAA
The fourteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Laois since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

153,93044,59591,87718412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 139 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N77 and R639 running through Durrow. 4 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Our Lady's Meadow Primary School.

Questions people ask

Where is Durrow?
In County Laois, in the province of Leinster, 24 km north-west of Kilkenny and 94 km from Dublin, on the N77 and R639.
How big is Durrow?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,613 buildings, 19 named streets and 58 named places, which by building count makes it the 8th largest of the 36 settlements this site covers in County Laois.
What is there to see in Durrow?
139 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Emigration Memorial, St. Fintan's Well and Mill Road Amenity Area.
How do you get to Durrow?
4 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Slieve Bloom Coach Tours and TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Laois grown or shrunk?
The census counted 153,930 people in the county in 1841 and 91,877 in 2022.
1,613
buildings on the model
19
named streets
58
named places
54
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q1267497). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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