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Things to do in Portmagee

A fishing village of about 120 people on the Portmagee Channel, facing Valentia Island across the Maurice O'Neill bridge, and the main departure pier for Skellig Michael landings. The boatmen read the swell on the islands at first light and ring their passengers, which makes the village the place to sleep the night before a booking. The Moorings on the harbourfront does rooms and food a few steps from the boats, and the Skellig Ring road west towards St Finian's Bay starts here.

7 places on record

Things to do

7

  1. Ballinskelligs Abbey

    Monastery · 30 min

    Where the monks went when the rock was given up, half an hour south of Portmagee.

  2. Geokaun Mountain

    Viewpoint · 1 hr

    The one point that lays out the whole Skellig coast at once: the islands, the Portmagee channel and the Kerry mainland.

  3. Kerry Cliffs

    Viewpoint · 30 min

    The view of the Skelligs without the boat, ten minutes from the pier.

  4. Little Skellig

    Island · 1 hr

    The closest most visitors get to a major seabird colony in Ireland, and no permit rations it.

  5. Skellig Experience Centre

    Museum · 1 hr

    The monastery's story without the sea crossing, and honest about what the crossing involves.

  6. Skellig Michael

    Landmark · 2.5 hr

    618 unrailed drystone steps end at six corbelled beehive cells that have shed Atlantic rain for a thousand years.

  7. Valentia Island Lighthouse

    Lighthouse · 30 min

    A working light you can walk out to, with the Skellig coast laid out from the point.

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