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You have to admire the people who first inhabited this Rock, it cannot ever have been easy. You have to admire the people who first thought of building a Lighthouse here, what a feat of engineering. Of course we are on Skellig Michael, and I have not even mentioned Star Wars!
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910
NLI Ref: M18/19/6
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Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910
NLI Ref: M18/19/6
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Oretani Wildlife (Mike Grimes)
As a tour guide on the Skelligs in the early '90s I used to love climbing over the wall into the lighthouse and exploring. It was a fabulous place to live I am sure, although remote. Whenever Richard Foran, one of the ex-keepers, would come out to do maintenance a visit to the light was a must, not only to climb up the tower but to hear Richards stories of times gone by over a mug of tea, as must have happened many a time in that house. They were the best two summers of my life working on the rock, 3 weeks on and 1 off with no electricity, no running water, a VHF for communication. It would appear, though, that the Star Wars attraction has overcome the real meaning of visiting the rock, which is to experience what it must have been like for the monks many years ago and the keepers in more modern times to live there.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
I watched a fantastic documentary series called Great Lighthouses of Ireland recently. Here is a promotional video which is really worth a look. Great Lighthouses of Ireland | RTÉ One
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeegee How lucky were you, Mike?! (even with the no lecky/no water)
Wendy:
I second the recommendation of the recent RTE series!
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Fantastic stuff! This history - www.irishlights.ie/tourism/our-lighthouses/skelligs-rock.... - says "... The dwellings were semi-detached (one house for the Principal Keeper and one for the Assistant) the lower was two-storey, the upper single. Each had attic rooms. The pitched roof of the lower house was flattened circa 1910. Each house had its own cast iron porch and all four are still in situ. ..." The photo on page 38 (see sliding thingy) shows the house with a pitched roof and dated "June 1908" - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000284024#page/38/mode/1up So after June 1908 at least ?
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Flickr is sometimes helpful - the rebuilt tower (1962) in 2016 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/32312934206/
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
I have just noticed our segue from Fastnet to Skellig!! Virtual sticky bun for self :)
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Virtual sticky rock cake?! From almost the same viewpoint via the lighthouse history link above - www.irishlights.ie/media/16362/Skelligs-2-_MainImage.jpg
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ It was great Wendy.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia You are right, I will take the Rock Bun and I will send the Sticky bun to you
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