Kells

Kells is a metropolis in County Meath, Ireland. The town lies off the M3 motorway, sixteen km from Navan and 65 km from Dublin. It is first-class called the website online of Kells Abbey, from which the Book of Kells takes its call. Before Kells became a monastery, it become the website online of a royal website online inhabited by means of the High King Cormac mac Airt

who moved his house from the Hill of Tara, for reasons pupils aren't but sure about. Kells become an important area on one of the five ancient roads that got here out of Tara - this road being named Sli nan n Assail and which ran from Tara to Rathcrogan, another royal website online, in County Roscommon. About 560 AD, Colmcille later known as Columba a prince of the royal residence of the Northern Ui Neill own family obtained Kells in recompense of a fault acted towards him via his cousin the High King Diarmuid Mac Carroll, who granted him the Dun of Ceannanus to set up a Monastery. The present monastery at Kells is thought to have been based around 804 AD by using priests from St Colmslie’s monastery in Iona who had been fleeing Viking invasions.