- Access to the Priory is currently via the car park on L1023. Contact. Kells Priory Kells Co. Kilkenny R95 V184. 056 772 4623 / 087 067 5783. jerpointabbey@opw.ie.
- Produced by the Irish animation company Cartoon Saloon, The Secret of Kells is set in and around the Abbey of Kells, Ireland, at the time of the Viking incursions.
- It is widely regarded as Ireland’s finest national treasure. The Book is on permanent display at Trinity College Library in Dublin.
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- Indeed, within a single century from 1250, the abbey was twice fought over and burned down by squabbling warlords.
- This may be due in large part to the many raids of the Abbey of Kells by Vikings throughout the 10th century.
- The magnificent Book of Kells has been re-digitized and is available to explore free online.
- ...and the Book of Kells was kept there during the later medieval and early modern periods before finally leaving the Abbey in the 1650s.
- The cloister at Jerpoint Abbey within60 The extensive ruins of Kells priory reveal its former size and importance in Ireland. Meanwhile, one of Ireland’s finest...
- The Trinity College Dublin Library in Ireland, home of the Book of Kells by User “Diliff”, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikipedia. The Abbey in Iona, Scotland, Pixabay.