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Unusually for Ireland, especially for the Republic of Ireland, Drum has no Catholic church in the actual village. [4] The nearest Catholic church to the village is St. Joseph's Church, also known as Corrinshigo Chapel, parts of which were built c. 1870 and which was significantly altered in the 1960s, and is located less than two miles west of ...
Drum (Irish: An Droim, meaning 'the ridge') [1] is a civil parish in south County Roscommon about 5 km west of Athlone. It lies in the barony of Athlone. One of the townlands in the parish is also called Drum. Meehambee Dolmen, a portal tomb estimated to be 5,500 years old, is located in the northern part of the parish.
Peter & Paul, Athlone, Drum and Clonown The Church of Saints Peter and Paul is a Roman Catholic parish church situated in the town of Athlone , County Westmeath in Ireland. [ 2 ]
The early church in Ireland may have been organised in imitation of the Diocesan model, which was an urban model with metropolitan Bishops having power. This quickly gave way to a monastic system organised in a more decentralised manner more suited to the Irish system of political organisation.
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656–58 by surveyors under William Petty.
Drumcliff [1] or Drumcliffe (Irish: Droim Chliabh, meaning 'ridge of the baskets') is a village in County Sligo, Ireland.It is 8 km (5 mi) north of Sligo town on the N15 road on a low gravel ridge between the mountain of Ben Bulben and Drumcliff Bay.
Drumlane church was re-granted to the reformed Anglican Diocese of Kilmore and used for Protestant church worship while the priory buildings were left to decay. A new church called St. Columba's was erected by the Church of Ireland by 1821 and the old Drumlane church was then un-roofed and abandoned.
Drumconrath or Drumcondra [2] (historically Drumconra, from Irish: Droim Conrach, meaning 'ridge of Conrach') [3] is a small village in north County Meath, Ireland.The parish borders County Louth and is also close to the borders of Counties Monaghan and Cavan.