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The South Peak Hermitage, Skellig Michael, Kerry
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Most visitors to Skellig Michael never see the South Peak. They climb the main stairway to the monastery, take in the beehive huts, and that's extraordinary enough. But the hermitage sits higher again, on a narrow spine of rock with drops on both sides that I'd rather not think about too carefully.
What gets me about this photograph is how hard the hermitage is to spot at first. The monks built their small oratory and levelled their terrace so precisely into the natural rock that your eye slides right past it. You have to look again before you realise what you're seeing. These were people who understood stone the way a carpenter understands grain.
The light was soft and flat that evening, heavy cloud sitting low with just a residual glow along the horizon. No direct sun. The drama was all in the rock and the geometry of what those monks built. Below, the monastery on the North Peak. Beyond it, Little Skellig white with gannets, and the faint outline of the Kerry mountains on the horizon.
The hermit who lived on this terrace would have looked down at a community of maybe a dozen monks on an island eight miles into the Atlantic, and considered that too much company! That puts a certain perspective on things.
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