What is recorded here

Inishvickillane, the southernmost Blasket island, holds a possible hut beside an Early Christian monastic settlement. The chamber may have formed under a rocky ridge, with a shallow hollow and a round stone-edged area preserving its ghost. A monk, hermit or keeper may have stood there in wind and darkness, using the cliff as one wall and the sea as a witness.

Inishvickillane, the southernmost of the Blasket islands, lies 7 miles SW of Slea Head and 9 miles from the nearest embarkation point at Dunquin pier. The island has an area of 199 acres and the Early Christian monastic settlement KE061-006---- lies at the SE end of the island, on the E slopes of a rocky buff which rises prominently above the remainder of the island. A little N of the oratory, at the E end of the rocky ridge which bounds the N side of the site, there is a hollow measuring 1.9 x 2.6m x .4m deep, and between this and the rock face is a roughly circular area, 3m in diameter, which is defined partly by the rock face, partly by loose rocks and boulders and partly by low rough walling. This area may have been disturbed in recent times and it is possible that a hut formerly stood here. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 845. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 8 August 2013

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