Ballinskelligs Priory, Co. KerryThe monks left Skellig Michael sometime in the 13th century. They'd spent hundreds of years on a rock eight miles out in the Atlantic, exposed to everything the ocean could throw at them, and they came ashore here. This gentle promontory on the Kerry coast, facing back towards the place they'd abandoned. What struck me from directly above was the geometry. The S curve of the beach sweeping around the headland, stone walls dividing the cemetery into