• ...of Kells zarielcharoitite on DeviantArthttps://www.deviantart.com/zarielcharoitite/art/the-mystery-of-the-abbey-of-Kells-484660959zarielcharoitite.
  • The Abbey of Kells (Irish: Mainistir Cheanannais) is a former monastery in Kells, County Meath, Ireland, 59 kilometres (37 mi) north-west of Dublin.
  • ...Book of Kells is thought to have been the manuscript on the altar which may have been first used in services on Iona and then certainly was at the abbey of Kells.
  • The Abbey of Kells (Mainistir Cheanannais in Irish) is a former monastery located in Kells, County Meath, Ireland, 40 miles north of Dublin.
  • EN English dictionary: Abbey of Kells. Abbey of Kells has 3 translations in 3 languages.
  • ...further Viking raids, goods and relics from the abbey were transferred to other Columban houses inland, including Raphoe, Dunkeld and the Abbey of Kells.
  • And so that’s when monks at Iona would have brought the “Book of Kells” to Kells Abbey for safekeeping or possibly have finished it there.
  • Unfortunately its original cover was lost forever. St. Columba founded the Abbey of Iona. contents. the abbeys of kells and iona. library of trinity college in Dublin.
  • Regardless, the book was certainly at Kells in the 12th century, when land charters pertaining to the Abbey of Kells were copied onto some of its blank pages.