Posted on 07/09/2020 6:04:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
While the Irish island of Little Skellig was long thought to have been inhabited by nothing but a variety of seabirds, a new archaeological discovery demonstrates that monastics once labored in asceticism on the inaccessible crag.
The archaeologist Michael Gibbons and a group of climbers recently located the remains of an early Christian church located on a narrow precipice overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, reports Afloat.
Gibbons estimates that the church dates to the late 7th-early 8th century, when there was already a functioning monastery on nearby Skellig Michael.
He described the location, 8 miles west of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, as the “ultimate monastic site.”
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Those Irish and Scottish Islands used to be far more active than now. My Mother’s clan’s home is Colonsay. Back in the 1700s it had a population of over a thousand.
Now it is just over a hundred.
More likely a hermitage.
Looks like a great place for asceticism.
How do you know that?
I go back as far as my great grandpop from Naples and that’s it :)
In 1970 I was competing in the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. I saw a tent/awning with the name McDuffie on it.
I stopped by and told them my Mother was a McDuffie. They invited me in, offered me whiskey which I declined. The guy who seemed in charge took Mother’s address and wrote her. She wrote back with her family info.
He already suspected who she was but confirmed everything. I still keep up with the clan.
Jedi Temple, right?
What games??
Wow
You’re from the highlands :)
Freedom!!! :)
No, it was in North Carolina and I am from Florida. My home county was in fact settled by Highland Scots tho.
As late as 1980, Walton County still had over 50% Scottish surnames.
Wow. That’s great to know
What a colorful history America has as far as immigrants go.
Though some groups were much more successful here than others
Have a good one
It looks like a difficult place to grow hops and barley. I’ll find a different monastery to join.
I was hoping the island would more like Craggy Island, which I know is fictional, but I like the Father Ted reference.
Probably a great place to do nothing but copy manuscripts!
It was the Irish that saved Christianity after the western Roman Empire fell.
St. Patrick was originally Romano-British, which is to say Welsh.
Yes. Agreed
So it was. Erin go bragh!
Clan MacDowell here!
So, they were kilt off?......................
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