Note 118 — Chapter II · THE MONASTIC CHURCH IN IRELAND.
Reading edition
Durthech .i. dairtech .i. tech darach no deirthech .i. tech .i. telgter dera. ‘Durthech, i.e. dairtech, i.e. a house of oak, or deirtech, i.e. a house in which tears are shed.’—Petrie’s Round Towers, p. 342.