Welcome to Rathdowney Parish Website! We want to make our parish website an interesting and worthwhile location for both parishioners and visitors to keep up to date with what’s happening in our parish. We hope that all parish and community groups will see it as a useful resource for sharing information with people.
Please feel free to contact us if you have something which you think we should include. We welcome your feedback.
| Mon to Fri |
5.30 pm Rosary |
| Tues to Fri |
10.00 am Mass |
| Sat |
7.30 pm Vigil Mass |
| Sun |
11.00 am Mass |
There are no upcoming events at this time.
The Parish Priest of Durrow, Archdeacon Sean O’Doherty has retired after thirty years of service to the people of Durrow and Cullahill. Bishop Denis Nulty has appointed me to become Administrator of Durrow and Cullahill while still being Parish Priest here in Rathdowney and Errill. I look forward to this new challenge but of…
Following the recent easing of restrictions Churches are allowed to welcome people back to Mass and other religious services. Where churches are large enough more than one pod can be created with a maximum of fifty people in each pod. The church in Rathdowney can accommodate two pods, one of fifty and a smaller…
New facility for paying Parish and Priest Contributions
Many charities and Church communities have seen a dramatic drop off in their contributions during these months of Covid-19 related restrictions. It seems unlikely that we will be able to have regular public celebrations of Mass for some months and even then the restrictions posed by…
Follow this link to a feature on Rathdowney published on the catholicireland.net website
https://www.catholicireland.net/laois-parish-offers-concerts-and-liturgies-via-webcam/
If you are having difficulties logging in to our webcam at any time you can try this link instead.
