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This is St. Columba's House,
a monastery that I was told was built in 804 AD. This is suppossedly where
the famous Book of Kells was created. The building is very small, and
the original church floor (which was wood) is no longer there. A thin
metal stairway leads up to a hole in the ceiling, where there are three
small chambers on the top floor. This space is quite claustrophobic (I
was the only one in my group to actually crawl all the way into the chamber).
These upper rooms is where the very small monks would have had thier living
space and probably decorated the Book of Kells.
Across the street is the
slightly more recent church, but its impressive graveyard has some misplaced
stone fragments on the grounds and set into the building that are obviously
very old, some possibly pre-christian.
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