Skellig Michael 2008

The Skellig Islands, Skellig Michael and Small Skellig, stand some 12 km southwest of Valentia Island, County Kerry. This is the Irish Machu Picchu.

These Skellig islands are world-famous, each in its own right: Skellig Michael is known throughout the world of archaeology as the site of a well-preserved monastic outpost of the Early Christian period – now designated a World Heritage Site; Small Skellig is equally renowned in matters of ornithology as the home of some 27,000 pairs of gannets – the second largest colony of such seabirds in the world.