placenamesDurrus
Dúras
The parish’s religious buildings preserve both a modest clerical residence and a larger Catholic church completed at the start of the twentieth century.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Dúras · Irish · main form · validated name
- Durrus · English · main form
Place & story
The Sacred Heart church of 1900
Durrus’s Sacred Heart church was built in 1900 under parish priest T. O’Leary, with Daniel Donovan as contractor. Its limestone and sandstone walls frame a varied arrangement of pointed, round and shaped windows. Inside, pointed arches on granite columns divide the nave from the side aisles, while an open timber roof spans the interior. The architectural inventory identifies carefully carved entrance surrounds and the canopy above the main doorway among its distinctive details. [2]
A house within a church complex
The former glebe house at Clashadoo dates from about 1820. It originally belonged to a Church of Ireland group that included Saint James’s Church to the east and a school to the north. The two-storey house retains its hipped roof, rendered exterior and round-headed entrance with a fanlight, although the inventory notes replacement fittings. Its scale and garden setting distinguish the residence from the public church buildings nearby. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Bantry
- Barony
- Carbery West (W.D.)
- Coordinates
- 51.63021, -9.53408
- Mapped area
- 45.27 km²
- Logainm ID
- 573 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Durrus. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, NIAH20913009 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Former glebe house at Clashadoo, NIAH20913006 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.