placenamesDurrow
Darú
Nineteenth-century country-house design added new buildings to Durrow’s much older religious landscape.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Darú · Irish · main form · validated name
- Durrow · English · main form
Place & story
Durrow Abbey House
Durrow Abbey House was built between 1837 and 1843 on the site of an eighteenth-century residence. Its Jacobean Revival design combines gables, tall chimneystacks, carved stonework and projecting bays. The architectural inventory records extensive rebuilding after a fire in the 1920s, with an interior designed by Ralph Byrne. Courtyard buildings, gates and a lodge complete the estate group. The house’s surviving form therefore includes substantial work from a later campaign as well as its nineteenth-century construction. [2]
Belview’s round-tower likeness
At Kilclare, Belview Tower bears a carved date plaque reading 1817. Built as a viewing folly for Belview House, its cylindrical form recalls an early Irish round tower. Narrow windows light the interior, where a stone spiral staircase leads upwards. The architectural survey records it standing on elevated ground within Kilclare demesne, overlooking the countryside. Its round-tower appearance belongs to nineteenth-century landscape design rather than an early monastic foundation. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Ballycowan
- Coordinates
- 53.32286, -7.52778
- Mapped area
- 30.45 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2019 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Durrow. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Durrow Abbey House, NIAH14909010 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Belview Tower, Kilclare, NIAH14908007 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.