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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(chiefly Isle of Man, historical) A small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period)..
The local place-name 'Chapel Gate' — 'the road to the Chapel' — is of some antiquity (J. J. Kneen, Place-Names, I, p. 22) and applies particularly to the steep pathway down the brooghs to the keeill-site and well at the west end of 'Chapel Bay'.
The division into sheadings and into (early secular) parishes is shown in Plate II with the sites of incised or engraved stones and of those keeills beside which graveyards have been identified.
Use keeill when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Keeill means (chiefly Isle of Man, historical) A small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period)..
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The local place-name 'Chapel Gate' — 'the road to the Chapel' — is of some antiquity (J. J. Kneen, Place-Names, I, p. 22) and applies particularly to the steep pathway down the brooghs to the keeill-site and well at the west end of 'Chapel Bay'.
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