Keeill
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Keeill is a noun meaning (chiefly Isle of Man, historical) A small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).
Meaning
(chiefly Isle of Man, historical) A small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).
Example Sentences
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.
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'.
Word Forms
- keeills
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cell, chapel, cellarium, closet-chapel, bridewell, chantry.
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