Durrow, County Offaly

Durrow

*Darú*
Durrow Darú
Town
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Area code	057

Durrow (Irish: Darú, meaning "plain of the oaks")^[1] is a small rural village and townland in County Offaly, Ireland. Durrow is located on the N52 off the N6 road between Kilbeggan (in County Westmeath) and Tullamore (in County Offaly).

Durrow Abbey, surrounded by woods, is one of Ireland's most important early Christian monasteries founded by Saint Colmcille. Some mistakenly assign County Laois as the location of this particular monastic settlement due to the presence of a larger town in Laois called Durrow.^{[citation needed]}

Monastery

Early Christian burials, unearthed by excavation of burial mounds by the National Museum of Ireland.^[2] Bede mentions that many more monasteries sprang from Durrow. ^[3]

Control

Patronage shifted during the millennium that followed the monastery's establishment. The Kings of Meath, Kings of Tethba and the MacGeoghegans, as well as chieftains known as Cinél

hereditary rulers forming ecclesiastical

dynasties.

Uí Néill association was also important and in 763 Domnall, King of Meath, was buried in the graveyard of Durrow. In 764 a war was fought with Clonmacnoise over burial rights,^[4] particularly the burial site of future Kings of Meath and in 776 the men of Durrow were involved in a raid upon Munster.^[5]

References

^ "Darú / Durrow". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
^ O'Brien, C. (2006), pp 115–20, Stories from a Sacred Landscape, Offaly County Council, Offaly see also Durrow Abbey
^ Bede, Historia ecclesiastica III.4.
^ Annals of Ulster 764.6.
^ Annals of Ulster 776.11.

External links

[1] "Darú / Durrow". logainm.ie. Irish Placenames Commission. Retrieved 28 February 2020.

[2] O'Brien, C. (2006), pp 115–20, Stories from a Sacred Landscape, Offaly County Council, Offaly see also Durrow Abbey

[3] Bede, Historia ecclesiastica III.4.

[4] Annals of Ulster 764.6.

[5] Annals of Ulster 776.11.

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Tentative list	The Burren The Historic City of Dublin The Céide Fields and North West Mayo Boglands Western Stone Forts The Monastic City of Clonmacnoise and its Cultural Landscape Early Medieval Monastic Sites (Clonmacnoise, Durrow, Glendalough, Inis Cealtra, Kells, and Monasterboice) The Royal Sites of Ireland: (Cashel, Dún Ailinne, the Hill of Uisneach, the Rathcroghan Complex, and the Tara Complex)

Monastery

Control

See also

References

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