Skellig Michael

On Skellig Michael, the largest of the Skellig Islands, can be seen the remains of a monastic settlement, which St Finian is said to have founded in the sixth century. Hewn in the stone are 670 steps leading up to the saddle between the island's two rocky peaks (highest summit 713ft/217m).

On artificially laid out terraces below the rocky pyramid are the well-preserved remains (National Monument) of the monastic settlement founded by St Finan in the ninth century - six beehive huts with a circular exterior and a rectangular interior; two boat-shaped stone oratories; lower down, remains of a church, probably of the 12th C.; small gardens, a well, gravestones and remains of a sundial; and finally enclosure walls on the edge of a