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Kells

Market town in County Meath, Republic of Ireland, 60 km/37 mi northwest of Dublin; population (2002) 1,750. The 8th-century illuminated manuscript Book of Kells (now in Trinity College Library, Dublin) came from a monastery founded here by St Columba in the 6th century. The remnants of the buildings can be seen in the churchyard. The town has an ancient round tower (30 m/99 ft), and there are carved stone crosses in the marketplace. St Columcille's House is a 9th-century stone-roofed two-storey building.

A facsimile of the Book of Kells is displayed in the church. A crosier from Kells is in the British Museum, London. On the summit of the Hill of Lloyd (130 m/428 ft) is a folly resembling a lighthouse, erected in memory of the earl of Bective.



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One could also mention the translations, harmonies, prooftexts, sermons, liturgical practices, the great codices such as Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus and wonderful gospel books such as the Book of Kells.
The signature work is the ``Book of Kells,'' an intricately decorated version of the four gospels, produced in the ninth century at a monastery on the island of Iona.
 
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