Trinity College Hotels Dublin

One of the most visited areas in Dublin City is around the grounds of Trinity College Dublin. Home to the Book of Kells this historic site attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. Visiting Dublin City - Trinity College Dublin is a must see tourist site. Looking for Trinity College Hotels Dublin, Trinity Capital Hotel is an ideal venue due to its location, minutes walk to this historic site.

Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College builds on its four-hundred-year-old tradition of scholarship to confirm its position as one of the great universities of the world, providing a liberal environment where independence of thought is highly valued and where staff and students are nurtured as individuals and are encouraged to achieve their full potential.

Trinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin. Unlike the universities of Oxford and of Cambridge, after which the University of Dublin was modelled and both of which comprise many constituent colleges, there is just one Dublin college: Trinity College. Thus the designations "Trinity College Dublin" and "University of Dublin" are usually synonymous for practical purposes. Located in Dublin, Ireland, it is Ireland's oldest university.

The Book of Kells at Trinity College Dublin

The Book of Kells was written around the year 800 AD and is one of the most beautifully illuminated manuscripts in the world.

Its 680 pages of vellum contain the Latin texts of the Four Gospels. It was written around 800AD by Irish monks, probably begun at a monastery in Iona, an island off Scotland and finished at Kells, Co. Meath. It was later buried in the ground for fear of the Vikings and after being eventually rediscovered it was deposited for safe keeping in Trinity around 1653

It has been on display in the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin from the mid 19th century, and attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. Since 1953 it has been bound in four volumes. Two volumes are on public view, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script. The volumes are changed at regular intervals.

The Book of Kells is housed in the Old Library building. The Old Library is wheelchair accessible.