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Durrow

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | Copyright

Durrow, in modern Co. Offaly, was founded as a monastery by St Colum Cille, most likely between 585 and 589. In his time it was administered as part of the family of Iona and headed by a monk of Iona answerable to the saint. Later Durrow grew into a monastic town with a substantial secular population, so that already in 764 we read in the annals that 200 men of Durrow were killed in battle against another monastic town, Clonmacnoise.

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Durrow

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | Copyright

Durrow [Ir. darú, oak plain]. Abbey and small village in Co. Offaly, 4 miles N of Tullamore, site of an early monastic centre founded in 551 by Colum Cille [St Columba]. Here was kept the Book of Durrow, an illuminated manuscript of the Gospels, now in the library of Trinity College, Dublin.

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Durrow

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Durrow (Darú) Laois. ‘Oak plain’.

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