Amazing World Heritage Site & Luke Skywalkers Kerry getaway

Skellig Michael Island is one of Ireland’s 3 World Heritage Sites. It is located can be found 13 km off the Kerry coastline. It is classified as one of the most dramatic examples of ‘extreme Christian monasticism’ in Europe. The monastic settlement was reputedly founded by St Finan in the 8th century and is perched on a cliff edge 600 feet above sea level. The early monks would have prayed, studied, and tended their terraced gardens and lived in the beehive-shaped huts whose corbelled rooves still remain watertight. It remained in use right up to the 13th century and later became a place of pilgrimage. Skellig is also a bird watcher’s paradise as there is a large colony of puffins. On the nearby Little Skellig island, there are 23,000 pairs of gannets making it the second-largest colony in the World. There are also faint rumors from a galaxy far, far away that Jedi training may have taken place here!