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Skellig MichaelIslands in Southwest Ireland, Ireland Just off the Iveragh Peninsula is the sacred island of Skellig Michael, one of the most remote islands in Europe.
Legend associates it with St. Fionan, the Irish saint, though it undoubtedly has spiritual associations way before. In the Middle Ages it was populated by monks and hermits, who abandoned it sometime in the 13th Century. Today you can visit a small group of 'beehive' huts where the hermits lived. Surrounding terraces were laid out to grow vegetables. St. Michael is the patron saint of Skellig, and gives his name to the island - as with Mont St Michel and St Michaels Mount. As a place of pilgrimage, it had connections with both these, as well as Delos and Mt Carmel in Palestine - all once part of a pan-European pilgrim route. Read more about this at World Reviewer: Skellig Michael »
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