More Pictures from Skellig Michael
Monday, September 11, 2006
This point stretches 300 feet up from the narrow passage the stone stairway follows.
Over 600 stairs lead precariously up from the origional boat landing site 715 feet up to the monastary. Each step was hand constructed by carrying slate stone found from around the rock faces and stacking them without mortar. The steps were so well constructed and so tightly fitted that every stair is still intact today.
A small cemetary fills some of the scarce flat area where the brothers were burried.
Posted by Benjamin Washam 6:06 AM
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