KELLS is also the name of a village in the county of Kilkenny, 64 miles from Dublin, situated on Kings river; and was noted for a priory of Augustines, built and richly endowed by Geoffroy Fitzroberts, who came into this kingdom with Strongbow. The prior of this place had the title of lord spiritual, and as such sat in the house of peers before the Reformation; the ruins only of this abbey now remain: a synod was held in it anno 1152, when John Paparo, legate from Rome, made one of the number of bishops that were convened there at that time to settle the affairs of the church.
There is a third place of the above name, situated in the county of Antrim and province of Ulster, 89 miles from Dublin.