Ninety seconds on Ballinskelligs Abbey
Where the monks went when the rock was given up, half an hour south of Portmagee.
The shoreline priory the Skellig community is held to have moved to when it left the rock in the twelfth or thirteenth century, kept afterwards by Ballinskelligs Priory as the mainland house. The ruin stands by the strand at Ballinskelligs and is free to walk into.
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