- The name for the Book of Kells come from the Abbey of Kells in Kells, County Meath in Ireland where it was kept between about the eleventh and seventeenth...
- Survivors fled to back to Ireland to the Abbey of Kells founded by Columba in County Meath where work on the manuscript was completed.
- Later, an Irish farmer discovered the manuscripts sticking out of the mud in his field. He turned it into the Abbey of Kells, which was its home for centuries.
- The name Book of Kells is derived from the Abbey of Kells in Kells, County Meath, which was its home for much of the medieval period.
- The book found its home in the Abbey of Kells in County Meath, Ireland. It rested there for centuries until Oliver Cromwell—English revolutionary and prolific...
- Enjoy views of the picturesque countryside as you drive from destination to destination. Get to know the unspoiled treasures of Ireland's Hidden Heartlands!
- Kells Priory. Ireland ... The ruins are 500m east of Kells on the Stoneyford road; from the car park, head to the right of the walls to find the main entrance.
- 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.
- Discover Kells Priory in Kilkenny, Ireland: These imposing walls and towers look more like the ruins of a fortress than a monastery.
- While the book takes its name from Abbey of Kells in County Meath, its place of origin is generally attributed to the scriptorium of the monastery founded around...