New religious artefacts found on Skellig Michael

Monday, September 28, 2009
LORNA SIGGINS
Western Correspondent

A previously hidden staircase has been discovered on Skellig Michael off the Kerry coast, along with an unidentified cross, hewn from rock.

The discoveries were made by archaeologist Michael Gibbons during recent field research as part of a project on pilgrimage mountains and islands.

The staircase is part of an uncharted route above the lighthouse road on an isolated part of the rock’s precipitous flanks. Mr Gibbons believes that it may have linked up to two of the three known routes up to the sixth century monastery. the rest