Pit Stop for the Spiritually Bamboozled
Skellig Michael
No, it’s not simply a spiky crag jutting out of the Atlantic ocean. Also, known as Great Skellig, this landmark site is one ot two Skellig islands 11.6 kilometres west of the Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry. The other island is known as Little Skellig.
According to to World Heritage Ireland website, “Skellig Michael was the chosen destination for a small group of ascetic monks who, in their pursuit of greater union with God, withdrew from civilisation to this remote and inaccessible place. Some time between the sixth and eight centuries, a monastery was founded on this precipitous rock giving rise to one of the most dramatic examples of the extremes of Christian monasticism.”
It is well preserved and definitely worth a visit. There is nothing like it in the western world.
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