The Skellig Experience
In THE SKELLIG EXPERIENCE CENTRE you
can experience many aspects of those offshore Skellig islands while
remaining on the dry land, in a custom built, stone clad, grass
roofed, prize winning building located right on the waterfront beside
the Valentia Island bridge at Valentia, County Kerry!
 Here, through
re-creations and models you can study the works and lives of the
Skellig monks of the early Christian period, their activities, their
endurance and their dedication in gaining a foothold on a tiny,
inhospitable, offshore island and creating a community there that
survived for some 600 years. In The Skellig Experience’s 80-seat
auditorium, through a 16-minute audio-visual presentation you can
follow the footsteps of those Skellig monks, and wonder at the legacy
of architecture that they left behind.
Here too, in The Skellig Experience’s
re-created Skellig sea cliff, with life-size models and related
presentations, you can get to know, by sight and sound, the life and
times of the seabirds of Skellig.
 The
Skellig Experience Centre also offers – again through artefacts and
realistic re-creations - an experience of Skellig lighthouse – its
history – its light keepers and its service to mariners since the
1820’s.
In The Skellig Experience Centre the
underwater life of Skellig is presented through a gallery of the still
photographs of visiting international Skellig divers and through a
colourful video exclusively from Skellig waters.
The Skellig Experience Centre also
includes a retail area with many Skellig-related, Kerry-related and
Ireland-related books, souvenirs and crafts.
‘Fionan’s Kitchen’, our
‘restaurant-with-a-view’, overlooking the waterfront of Portmagee
Channel, and seating up to 48 persons, offers teas, coffees, snacks,
sandwiches – and larger meals.
And, of course, you can always enjoy the good food and keen shopping
at the Skellig Experience Centre even without entering the exhibition
area!May, June & September Open 10.00 am – 6.00 p.m. 7 days a week
July & August Open 10.00a.m.-7.00 p.m. 7 days a week
March, April, October & November Open 10.00a.m. - 5.00 p.m. 5 days a
week
(Ring 066-9476306 for exact opening days)
Phone (in season): +353 66 9476306. Fax: +353 66 9476351
Email:
skelligcentre@eircom.net
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