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Monastic vs Keeill - What's the difference?

monastic | keeill |

As an adjective monastic

is monastic.

As a noun keeill is

(chiefly|manx|historical) a small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).

monastic

English

Alternative forms

* monastick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to monasteries or monks.

    • Related terms

    * monastery * monasticism * monk

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person with monastic ways; a monk.

    • keeill

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, Manx, historical) A small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).
  • * 1958 , Annie Ashley, The Church in the Isle of Man , issue 13, page 8:
    • 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.
  • * 1966 , in the Report of the Manx Archaeological Survey, volume 6, page 61:
    • 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'.
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