Photographer and writer Chris Ryan visited Skellig Michael off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, where an early-medieval monastery survives at the edge of the material world.
A Sacred Place: Skellig Michael
Beehive huts on Skellig Michael; Little Skellig peaking out of clouds in background. County Kerry, Ireland. Photo: Chris Ryan. Beehive huts on Skellig Michael; Little Skellig peaking out of clouds in background. County Kerry, Ireland. Photo: Chris Ryan. By Chris Ryan, Contributor
Photographer and writer Chris Ryan visited the larger of the two Skellig Islands off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, where an early-medieval monastery survives at the edge of the material world.
Start at the Dublin offices of Google or Facebook, drive to the southwest tip of Ireland, hop a boat, journey seven miles out to sea, and climb 600 steps clinging to the edge of a steep, jagged island – in only seven hours or so you’ll have made one of the farthest journeys you can make today. You’ll have traveled from one of the hubs of modern, superconnected civilization to a windbeaten perch where for 600 years a handful of intrepid asc