School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

Location:
Kells, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máthais Íde
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. medical practice
        1. folk medicine (~11,815)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Stone
    Gender
    Female
  2. When St Columba came to Kells in 553 he established a monastery there He remained ten years in Kells, and then went to Iona.
    We know that about the year 806 when the Danes ravaged Iona the Columbian monks fled to Kells, and took refuge in the Columbian monastery there.
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