Skellig Coast Archaeology Festival

This festival takes place across the Iveragh Peninsula in Co Kerry in the south-west of Ireland beginning in Derrynane in Caherdaniel and our last event in Tech Amergin in Waterville, a village about half an hour's drive to any of our destinations which include Brú na Dromada, the Glen, Cahersiveen and some upland areas beyond and in-between. Events include a rare chance to see the historic graffiti in the Summer House at Derrynane on Friday with Dr Connie Kelleher who discovered it; Bronze Casting demonstrations on Saturday night and Sunday with Umha Aois with the very talented young artist Conor O'Connell; a hike to the highest elevation petroglyphs in Ireland (with medieval and Bronze Age monuments en route); the Glen to see a previously unrecorded lifting stone and possible medieval ecclesiastical site; a mushroom forage; a costume making workshop; and an other worldly talk by Chair of Heritage Iveragh, Dr Eoin O'Neill. The festival is also paying visits to Colaiste na Sceilge and some national schools.