What is recorded here

Durrow Abbey is an early Christian monastic site in County Offaly, probably founded by Columba in the 580s and later praised by Bede as a noble monastery in Ireland. Vikings raided it repeatedly, Anglo-Norman Hugh de Lacy took its stones for a motte in 1180, and he was killed there in 1186 by one of his own workmen. The Book of Durrow, one of the earliest surviving fully decorated Insular Gospel books, belonged to the abbey by 916 at the latest, and the site still holds a high cross, grave slabs, a holy well and the shadow of a place that kept giving back what power tried to remove.

Durrow Abbey is recorded as a archaeological place in County Offaly. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.