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Durrow Abbey: History, Overview & Current status

Durrow Abbey is a historic site in Durrow, County Offaly in Ireland. It is 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of the centre of Tullamore (8 kilometres (5 mi) via the N52 road). Largely undisturbed, the site is an early medieval monastic complex of ecclesiastical and secular monuments, visible and sub-surface.

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Durrow Abbey topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Overview and Current status as prominent areas in the source structure around Durrow Abbey.

Related topics: 49
Source areas: 4
Connected nodes: 53
Extracted relationships: 48
Concept neighborhoods: 21
Bridge connections: 53

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 20 topics

History · 17 topics

Current status · 9 topics

Other De Lacy associated monuments and structures · 3 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Location: Near
Established: 580s
Founder: Saint Columba
Heritage designation: National Monument
Public access: Yes

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Overview

Durrow, County Offaly
Ireland Republic of Ireland
N52 road
Early medieval
Monastic
Columba
Venerable Bede
Vikings
Norman Normans
Illuminated manuscript
Book of Durrow
Trinity College, Dublin
Insular Insular art
Gospel book
High cross
National Museum of Ireland
Holy well
Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath
Motte Motte-and-bailey
Hector John Graham-Toler, 2nd Earl of Norbury

History

Vita Columbae
Laisrén
Abbot of Iona
Bede
Clann Cholmáin
Domnall Midi
Clonmacnoise
Munster
Donnchad Midi
Slighe Mhór Five great roads of Ireland
Esker Riada
Mag Lena
Synod
Controversy over the date of Easter Celtic Christianity
Medieval times
Annals of the Four Masters
The supernova of 1054 SN 1054

Current status

Tom Parlon
John Gormley
Peppercorn rate Peppercorn (legal)
Office of Public Works
Simon Harris
John McGuinness John McGuinness (politician)
Rave
Barry Cowen
Gardaí Garda Síochána

Other De Lacy associated monuments and structures

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Durrow Abbey connects Entity context

The extracted context around Durrow Abbey shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Durrow Abbey → AD, Annals, Bede, Clann Cholmáin, Clonmacnoise, Columba, Daru, Domnall Midi, Donnchad Midi, Durrow, Easter, Esker Riada, Great Highway, In, Iona, Ireland, Irish, Laisrén, Mag Lena, Munster Another extracted example is Durrow Abbey → Church, In, Ireland, Offaly County Council, Paddy, Sheila O'Brien, St Columba's Church, State, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Durrow Abbey

Top relations

related to history · 24

Durrow Abbey → AD, Annals, Bede, Clann Cholmáin, Clonmacnoise, Columba, Daru, Domnall Midi, Donnchad Midi, Durrow, Easter, Esker Riada, Great Highway, In, Iona, Ireland, Irish, Laisrén, Mag Lena, Munster

related to Current status · 9

Durrow Abbey → Church, In, Ireland, Offaly County Council, Paddy, Sheila O'Brien, St Columba's Church, State, The

related to Astronomical observation · 8

Durrow Abbey → Annals, Chinese, Eastern, European, Four Masters, In July, Other, Their

Coordinates · 1

Durrow Abbey → .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…

Established · 1

Durrow Abbey → 580s

Founder · 1

Durrow Abbey → Saint Columba

Heritage designation · 1

Durrow Abbey → National Monument

Location · 1

Durrow Abbey → Near

Public access · 1

Durrow Abbey → Yes

is a · 1

Durrow Abbey → historic site in Durrow

Important terminology

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Important terminology

durrow abbey site house century ireland public foundation centre columba arts peace early also monuments rave founded known may built

Durrow Abbey relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 48 structured relationships around Durrow Abbey. Examples in this analysis include Durrow Abbey → Coordinates → .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars… and Durrow Abbey → Established → 580s. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Durrow Abbey	Coordinates	.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-pars…	1.00	infobox
Durrow Abbey	Established	580s	1.00	infobox
Durrow Abbey	Founder	Saint Columba	1.00	infobox
Durrow Abbey	Heritage designation	National Monument	1.00	infobox
Durrow Abbey	Location	Near	1.00	infobox
Durrow Abbey	Public access	Yes	1.00	infobox
Durrow Abbey	is a	historic site in Durrow	0.90	text
Durrow Abbey	related to Astronomical observation	In July	0.60	section
Durrow Abbey	related to Astronomical observation	Annals	0.60	section
Durrow Abbey	related to Astronomical observation	Four Masters	0.60	section
Durrow Abbey	related to Astronomical observation	Their	0.60	section
Durrow Abbey	related to Astronomical observation	European	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Durrow Abbey bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Durrow, Public and Arts. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

Durrow Abbey
- Durrow
- Public
- Arts
- Founded
- Also
- House
- Site
- Columba
- John
- May
- Centre
- Century
durrow abbey
- Durrow
- House
- Foundation
- Site
- Built
- Church
- Public
- Arts
- Century
- Peace
- Founded
- Also
durrow, county offaly
- Offaly
- Ireland
- Public
- Church
- Plans
- Founded
- Also
- House
- Site
- Arts
- Peace
- Columba
book of durrow
- Now
- May
- Public
- Founded
- Also
- House
- Site
- Columba
- John
- Centre
- Century
- Foundation
fore abbey
- Durrow
- House
- Foundation
- Site
- Built
- Church
- Arts
- Century
- Peace
- Public
- Grounds
- May
ireland
- Offaly
- Church
- Site
- Ecclesiastical
- Well
- Called
- Monuments
- Now
- Early
- Grounds
- State
- Arts
early medieval
- Ecclesiastical
- Built
- Church
- Medieval
- Monuments
- Site
- Century
- Bede
- Well
- Now
- Also
- Founded
national museum of ireland
- Offaly
- Church
- Site
- Ecclesiastical
- Well
- Called
- Monuments
- Now
- Early
- Grounds
- State
- Arts

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Durrow Abbey, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Durrow Abbey with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Durrow Abbey — Overview · splits 33 ⟂ 21

Durrow Abbey — History · splits 36 ⟂ 18

Durrow Abbey — Current status · splits 44 ⟂ 10

Durrow Abbey — Other De Lacy associated monuments and structures · splits 50 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Durrow Abbey

Nodes54

Edges53

Triples48

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.037037

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Durrow Abbey to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Overview & Current status, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Durrow Abbey · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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