Publications

This report, dated December 2025, tracks the progress of implementing the action programme of the Sceilg Mhichíl World Heritage Property Management Plan 2020–30.

The archaeological review for the 2025 season was compiled by the National Monuments Service. It 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.

The Sceilg Mhichíl Works Report outlines the conservation, maintenance and repair works completed on the World Heritage Property in 2025.

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.

The Strategy for World Heritage in Ireland 2025-2035 is Ireland’s first national strategy to support the implementation of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention. The Strategy will foster a more integrated, inclusive, and interdisciplinary approach to World Heritage protection and management both nationally and locally and it will enhance local stakeholder engagement, participation, and communication in the management of the existing and future World Heritage Properties and Tentative List sites.

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

This report, dated December 2024, tracks the progress of implementing the action plan of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Property Management Plan 2017–27.

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.