An account of an Early Christian Ireland

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were skilled metalworkers and they made chalices and other church vessels. These were made from gold and/or bronze. They were decorated with coloured glass, enamel and delicate filigree work. They wrote manuscripts in a scriptorium. A scriptorium is a room where manuscripts were copied by hand and illustrated. They wrote on parchment or vellum with a quill made from goose feathers.They added color to their manuscripts by creating ink from the juice of crushed berries, crushed acorns and crushed beetles.
The most famous manuscript today is the "Book of Kells" which is kept in Trinity College in Dublin, and the oldest is the "Cathach."
Monks only ate what they needed in a refectory. A refectory is the hall where the monks ate their food. A bell on top of a round tower rang at dinner time and at prayer time. The round tower is a bell tower and a safe place for valuables and people if the monastery came under attack.

The bell would also be rung when the monastery was ...

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