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Kells (/ ˈ k ɛ l z /; Irish: Ceanannas) [a] is a town in County Meath, Ireland.The town lies off the M3 motorway, 16 km (10 mi) from Navan and 65 km (40 mi) from Dublin.Along with other towns in County Meath, it is within the commuter belt for Dublin, [3] [4] [5] and had a population of 6,608 as of the 2022 census. [2]
Kells was founded as a monastic settlement by Saint Columba c. 550 on land that had been gifted to him by the King of Tara - Diarmait mac Cerbaill. Columba was exiled after the Battle of Cúl Dreimhne (AD 561). The Abbey of Kells was re-founded in the early 9th century by monks from Iona. The high crosses were erected in the 9th/10th century ...
St. Columb's House is a rectangular building with a very high pointed roof. Internally there was originally a high floor 1.5 m (5 feet) above the ground, but this is gone.
Leaving a besieging party at Carrickfergus, Bruce travelled to Dundalk to meet Moray, and together led the Scots into County Meath. Through his marriage to Joan de Geneville, 2nd Baroness Geneville, Roger Mortimer, 3rd Baron Mortimer succeeded to the eastern part of the Lordship of Meath, centred on Trim and its stronghold of Trim Castle. In ...
The Abbey of Kells (Irish: Mainistir Cheanannais) or Kells Priory is a former monastery in Kells, County Meath, Ireland, 59 kilometres (37 mi) north-west of Dublin.It was founded in the early 9th century, and the Book of Kells was kept there during the later medieval and early modern periods before finally leaving the abbey in the 1650s.
This is a list of towns and villages in County Meath, Ireland. A. Agher [1] Ashbourne [2] Athboy ... Kells [2] Kilcloon [2 ... List of towns and villages in County Meath.
The 1846 Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland said, . KELLS (LOWER and UPPER), two baronies on the west aide of the county of Meath, Leinster. They are bounded, on the north, by the baronies of Slane and Morgallion ; on the east, by the baronies of Morgallion and Navan ; on the south, by the barony of Lune and the county of Westmeath ; and, on the west, by the barony of Demifore and the county ...
Meath County Council is the local authority for the county. Meath is the 14th-largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties by land area, and the 8th-most populous, with a total population of 220,826 according to the 2022 census. [2] The county town and largest settlement in Meath is Navan, located in the centre of the county along the River Boyne.