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Trinity College Library

This literary treasury, located in Dublin, is one of the most beautiful and unusual libraries in the world, which has become a permanent home for the famous illustrated Book of Kells, created in 800 by Irish monks. The facility is located in five buildings, four of which belong to Trinity College and one to St. James Hospital. The main hall of the Old Library, called the Long Room, stretches for 65 meters. It was built between 1712 and 1732, and today it houses more than 200,000 of the oldest literary works.

Initially, the Long Room was an open gallery with a flat ceiling, where volumes were placed only on the shelves of the first floor. But at the beginning of the 19th century, the library received the right to keep a copy of each book published in Ireland and Great Britain within its walls, and the shelving became insufficient. In 1860, it was decided to expand the book depository and install the upper gallery in it, which required raising the ceiling a few meters and transforming its flat form into a vaulted one