7 Interesting Islands You Shouldn't Miss
Friday, April 12, 2024
Skellig Michael — a rocky, green outcropping 12 miles off Ireland's southwest coast — doesn't look all that inviting from shore. | Together with FinanceBuzz |
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| That was exactly its attraction for the community of monks who took up residence there in the sixth and seventh centuries CE. Early Christians sought austerity and solitude, and the island offered those in abundance. For 600 years, monks lived on Skellig Michael (Sceilg Mhichíl in Irish) in stone beehive huts (so named for their rounded and tapered shape), perched on human-made terraces on the rocky island slopes along with a hermitage, church, garden, and cemetery. The monks subsisted on what vegetables could be grown on this wind-whipped island, the fish that could be caught in the wild sea below, and the eggs of the large colony of gannets and puffins. Around the 13th century, the monks decamped for the mainland, but the island remained a place of pilgrimage. |
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