Tour starts and ends at Saint Columba’s Gate, Market Street. Located at the very centre of ancient Ireland’s most important crossroads, the monastery of Kells was founded in the decades after the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Attributed to Saint Colmcille/Columba, its establishment in the mid-6th Century followed immediately after environmental catastrophe and […]

Tour starts and ends at Saint Columba’s Gate, Market Street. Located at the very centre of ancient Ireland’s most important crossroads, the monastery of Kells was founded in the decades after the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Attributed to Saint Colmcille/Columba, its establishment in the mid-6th Century followed immediately after environmental catastrophe and […]

Tour starts and ends at Saint Columba’s Gate, Market Street. Located at the very centre of ancient Ireland’s most important crossroads, the monastery of Kells was founded in the decades after the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Attributed to Saint Colmcille/Columba, its establishment in the mid-6th Century followed immediately after environmental catastrophe and […]