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Extract from the Kells Travel Guides:
KELLS
itself is a place of history and monastic antiquities - several high crosses, an eleventh-century oratory, a round tower and an ancient square bell tower - but it is most famous for what is not here, the magnificent illuminated manuscript known as the
Book of Kells
, now housed in Trinity College, Dublin. The
monastery
was founded by St Columba in the sixth century, and from about 807 it became the leading Columban monastery in Ireland, when the monks from the original foundation on the Scottish island of Iona fled here from repeated Viking raids. It is probable that the
Book of Kells
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