KELLS IN MEATH 271

Its ancient name--Its great antiquity--Fertility of the

country round it--The tower of Lloyd--Tailltean; its

immense antiquity--The Irish Olympia--Proofs of the general

authenticity of early Irish history--Sir Wm. Wilde's

opinion of Irish chronology--Assemblies held in Tailltean

in recent times--Early Christian Monuments--Kells often

burned and plundered by the Danes--The Book of Kells and

the Tara Brooch.

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