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This bibliography relates to texts which are directly relevant to Sceilg Mhichíl.
Please refer to the Management Plan for a more comprehensive bibliography.

Bourke, E. (2005) ‘A preliminary analysis of the inner enclosure of Sceilg Mhichíl, Co. Kerry’, Above and Beyond; essays in memory of Leo Swan, T. Condit and C. Corlett (eds), 121-37. Dublin.

de Paor, L. (1955) ‘A Survey of Sceilg Mhichíl’, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 85, 174-87.

Harbison, P. (1976) ‘John Windele’s visit to Sceilg Mhichíl in 1851’, Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, 125-48.

Harbison, P. (1991) Pilgrimage in Ireland: The Monuments and the People. London.

Henry, F. (1957) ‘Early monasteries, beehive huts and dry-stone houses’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 58, 127-79.

Horn, W., Marshall, J.W. and Rourke, G. (1990) The Forgotten Hermitage of Sceilg Mhichíl, California.

Lavelle, D. (1997) Skellig: Island Outpost of Europe. Dublin. Reprint: Dublin 2006.

Marshall, J.W. and Rourke, G.D. (2000) High Island: An Island Monastery in the Atlantic. Dublin.

Marshall, J.W. and Walsh, C. (2005) Illaunloughan Island: An Early Medieval Monastery in County Kerry . Dublin.

Merne, O. and Walsh, A. (2005) ‘Breeding seabirds of the Skelligs, Co. Kerry’. Irish Birds 7, 461-74.

O’Kelly, M.J. (1958) ‘Church Island near Valentia, Co. Kerry’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 59C, 57-136.

Roe, H. (1976) ‘The cult of St. Michael in Ireland’, Folk and Farm, ed. C. ó Danachair. Dublin.

Rourke, G.D. (1987) ‘Works to the Small Oratory Terrace on Sceilg Mhichíl’ Public Works: the Architecture of the Office of Public Works, 1831-1987. Architectural Association of Ireland, 111-13.

Rourke, G.D. (1997) ‘The stabilisation of the Early Christian Monastery on the island of Sceilg Mhichíl, Co. Kerry, Ireland’, Studies in Ancient Structures: Proceedings of the International Conference, Turkey, 14-18 July 1997, YTU Faculty of Architecture Publication, 585-94. Istanbul.

Rourke, G.D. (2002) ‘Preserving the Monuments on Sceilg Mhichíl for the Future’, Antiquity, 76.292, 542-52.



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