keeill

plural keeills

1. historicalchiefly Isle of ManA small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).

   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.

   1958, Annie Ashley, The Church in the Isle of Man, number 13, page 8

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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'.

   1966, in the Report of the Manx Archaeological Survey, volume 6, page 61