Messages from our Parish Team

Our parish was born some 1,500 years ago, died, and was reborn in the mid-20^th century. The ancient parish of Drumbo, centred on the edge of a ridge where the drumlin country of County Down starts to descend into the Lagan Valley, was reputedly founded by Saint Patrick in the fifth century. The only traces of that monastic settlement today are the stump of a round tower in the Presbyterian churchyard In Drumbo village, close to the medieval parish church’s foundations in the graveyard. Drumbo’s church became extinct about 1600 and for three centuries no Mass was celebrated in this area of County Down. Saint Mochumma, the first Abbot of Drumbo, who died in 506, is commemorated by a stained glass window in our present church.