This name is based on the local patron saint; Cormac Ua Liathain, a native of Cork, who paid a visit to St. Colmcille at the famous monastery he had founded in Durrow in 553 A.D. Cormac was so inspired by the great saint that he joined Colmcille and spent many years at Durrow, eventually taking over as abbot after Colmcille had gone to Iona in Scotland.
M & A Coaches routes 828 and 828X serve the station providing links to locations such as Cashel, Urlingford,Durrow and Abbeyleix and in the other direction to the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise.
Henry Flower, 2nd Baron Castle Durrow (d. 1752) (created Viscount Ashbrook in 1751)
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The title of Baron Castle Durrow, in the County of Kilkenny, had been created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1733 for his father William Flower.