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    Figure 1: Location Map

Figure 2: Southeast Tower floor plan

Figure 3: West Tower floor plan

Figure 4: Kells Priory drawing
  Figure 5: Water Tower floor plan

Figure 6: Prior's Tower floor plan

Figure 7: Line Drawing Explanation
of Kells Priory Reconstruction


Figure 8: Ground-Plan of Kells Priory
   
   

THE MONASTIC PRECINCT
9 Inner Gatehouse
10 15th century(?)wall-walk
with crenellated parapet
11 Southwest Precinct Bastion
and bake house/brew house (?)
12 Bake House bread oven
13 Original Precinct wall(?)
14 Water Tower
15 Outer Court
16 Outer Court entrance
17 Slype (passage from Outer
Court to east Precinct)
18 Reredorter
19 Main priory drain
20 Priory workshop
21 Infirmary hall (ward)
22 Infirmary chapel
23 Infirmary reredorter
24 Infirmarer's chambers(?)
25 Kitchen block
BURGESS COURT
1 Outer Gatehouse
2 Machicoulis over millstream
exit-arch
3 Southeast Tower
4 South Tower
5 Southwest Tower
6 West Tower
7 Water mill
8 Kells Gate
THE CLOISTER
26 Cloister garth & enclosing
ambulatories
27 Inner Parlour
28 Chapter House
29 Vestibule & day stairs
30 Warming Room
27-30 Dorter over
31 Slype (passage from Outer Court to Cloister)
32-33 Store-rooms
34 Staircase to frater?
31-34 Frater over
35 Lavabo
36 External stairs to frater
37 Outer or Public Parlour
38 Great Store
37-38 14th century Prior's
lodging & guesthousef?)
39 Prior's Totter
THE PRIORY CHURCH
40 South Transept
41 Presbytery
42 Tomb niches
43 Church crossing & Crossing Tower (over)
44 Staircase up to tower(?)
45 Nave
46 Nave north aisle
47 North Transept
48 North transept aisles

49 Tombs(?)
50 Lady Chapel
51 Sedile & Piscina (or Aumbry)
52 Belfry Tower
53 Out-building
54 Northwest Gate
55 Watergate Tower
56 Postern gate
57 Postern Tower
 
Figure 7: Line Drawing Explanation of Kells Priory Reconstruction.
The priory buildings and their parts are numbered in the order in which they occur on the tour described on this website.