Kells
Kells is a town in County Meath, about 65 km north of Dublin, with a population in 2022 of 6600. "Kil-" or "Kells" denotes the cell or abode of a monk, so it's a common placename, but this is the one that for 800 years housed the Book of Kells.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,610 residents
- Description: town in County Meath, Ireland
- Also known as: “Ceanannus Mór” and “Kells, County Meath”
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kells Round Tower and Spire of Lloyd.
Kells Round Tower
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Kells Round Tower is a round tower in Kells, County Meath in Ireland. The tower, and the high crosses nearby, are National Monuments.
Spire of Lloyd
Monument
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The Spire of Lloyd in Kells, Ireland is an 18th-century folly in the form of a Doric column, surmounted by a glazed lantern. Sometimes described as "Ireland's only inland lighthouse", it was designed by architect Henry Aaron Baker.
Headfort House
School
Headfort House is a large country house on the southern outskirts of Kells in County Meath, Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Carlanstown and Carnaross.
Carlanstown
Village
Carlanstown is a village and townland in County Meath, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, there were 664 people living in the village. Carlanstown is located approximately 4 km northeast of the larger town of Kells, County Meath on the N52 road. Carlanstown is situated 4½ km northeast of Kells.
Carnaross
Village
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Carnaross or Carnaros is a village in County Meath, Ireland, approximately 4 km northwest of Kells on the R147 road between Kells and Virginia, County Cavan. Carnaross is situated 6 km northwest of Kells.
Kells
- Category: locality
- Location: County Meath, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.7274° or 53° 43′ 39″ northLongitude
-6.8762° or 6° 52′ 34″ westPopulation
6,610Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE KLLOpen location code
9C5MP4GF+XGOpenStreetMap ID
node 52226705OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kells” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيلز، مقاطعة ميث”
- Arabic: “كيلز”
- Basque: “Kells”
- Belarusian: “Келс”
- Breton: “Kells”
- Bulgarian: “Келс”
- Catalan: “Kells”
- Cebuano: “Kells”
- Chinese: “凯尔斯”
- Chinese: “凱爾斯”
- Czech: “Kells”
- Danish: “Kells”
- Dutch: “Kells (Meath)”
- Dutch: “Kells”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيلز”
- French: “Kells”
- German: “Kells”
- Hebrew: “קלס”
- Hungarian: “Kells”
- Indonesian: “Kells, County Meath”
- Indonesian: “Kells”
- Irish: “Ceanannas Mór”
- Irish: “Ceanannas”
- Italian: “Kells”
- Japanese: “ケルズ”
- Latvian: “Kelsa”
- Lithuanian: “Kelsas”
- Manx: “Ceanannas, Coontae yn Vee”
- Manx: “Ceanannas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kells”
- Norwegian: “Kells”
- Polish: “Kells”
- Portuguese: “Kells”
- Russian: “Келс”
- Scots: “Kells”
- Serbian: “Kels”
- Serbian: “Келс (Ирска)”
- Serbian: “Келс”
- Slovak: “Kells”
- Slovenian: “Kells”
- Spanish: “Kells”
- Swedish: “Ceanannas Mór”
- Swedish: “Kells, Meath”
- Swedish: “Kells”
- Ukrainian: “Келлс”
- Urdu: “کیلز، کاؤنٹی میدھ”
- Urdu: “کیلز”
- Welsh: “Kells”
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