What is recorded here

Durrow mound records a monastery where roads and causeways multiplied under an abbot named Torulbh. That is why the earth still keeps shape inside the demesne. The Pictish abbot built more than one church; he built a landscape of entrances.

Unlocated mounds within the townland of Durrow, a twelfth century poem in the Laud Manuscript in the Bodleian library recalls that 'a Pictish abbot named Torulbh made 'many mounds, many choice causeways (mor tocha togher), many roads and many ways' at the monastery of Durrow, Co. Offaly (Lucas 1985, 46). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

A Neolithic or early medieval burial mound, possibly associated with a Pictish tradition; its significance is linked to a 12th-century reference to a Pictish abbot named Torulbh who is said to have constructed multiple mounds and causeways in the area.

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