Publications

In 2022 Sceilg Mhichíl was included in the ICOMOS-National Geographic & Manulife’s Preserving Legacies – A Future for our Past Project, the only site selected in Europe at the time. This Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment report forms part of the deliverables for the project.

This report summarises the process and results of a Climate Vulnerability Assessment of the Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Property. Carrig Conservation were engaged by the Office of Public Works and by the National Monuments Service to carry out this work. The intent was to conduct a bespoke assessment of the site based on the Adapt Northern Heritage and Climate Vulnerability Index methodologies to identify the risks posed by climate change to the World Heritage Property and its outstanding universal value and to discuss possible adaptation measures.

The report was launched in Kerry in November 2025 for the community that helped create it.

The ground beetle Harpalus honestus (Duftschmid, 1812) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) was collected from Skellig Michael in 2023 and 2024, Co. Kerry, the first Irish records. The beetle is a thermophilous, xerophilous species of fast-draining or dry habitats. Evidence is adduced to demonstrate its preference for montane situations and its southern temperate European distribution. It is suggested the species is a post-glacial relict whose narrow environmental preferences limit its distribution in Ireland.

This report, dated December 2024, tracks the progress of implementing the action programme of the Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Property Management Plan 2020–30.

The archaeological review for the 2024 season provides an overview of works that necessitated archaeological oversight only and the nature of that oversight/monitoring on the World Heritage Property of Sceilg Mhichíl.

Skellig Michael was visited on a number of occasions through the summers of 2023 and 2024 with the object of surveying spiders and other invertebrates on the island. This summary report details some of the results so far obtained, offering a list of the spiders including numbers of specimens seen.

The Sceilg Mhichíl Works Report outlines the repair works completed on the World Heritage Property in 2024.

Note: Appendix I refers to an internal report and so has not been uploaded.

Please find attached a report by NPWS describing seabird survey work between 2020 and 2023.

This is the Final Report for a rescue excavation commissioned by the National Monuments Service in 2023 on an area of ground at the Upper Lighthouse on Sceilg Mhichíl that is the subject of erosion from increased storminess and precipitation.

This report, dated December 2023, tracks the progress of implementing the action programme of the Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Property Management Plan 2020–30.

The Sceilg Mhichíl Works Report outlines the repair works completed on the World Heritage Property in 2023.

Note: Appendix F – Emergency Exercise Irish Coast Guard Rescue Simulation Minutes has been omitted for GDPR concerns and Appendix E – Summary of the Attributes for Ireland’s two existing World Heritage Properties can be accessed here.