Home › Words › K › keeillkeeillkeeill means A small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).EtymologyBorrowed from Manx keeill. Doublet of cell.nounA small monastic cell or chapel (especially during the pre-modern period).e.g.“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:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).