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Fact File
Before the 12th or 13th centuries, the monastic settlements in Ireland were quite different to the later, more English, models. The monks or nuns did not live in one big building but each had their own hut or cell. There would also have been a church, a bell tower, an infirmary or hospital for the sick, a guesthouse, a kitchen-house and a scriptorium where the monks worked on copying the gospels.
Valuable pieces of gold and silver plate and jewelled crosses were kept in the bell tower.
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