Over seven miles off the Irish coast, lie the sea crags of Skellig Michael, a breathtaking island once home to a community of reclusive monks. More recently, a different kind of hermit used it as ...

It even hosts the ruins of an ancient monastery built sometime between ... scenes in "The Force Awakens" was filmed on Skellig Michael, an island located six miles off the coast of Ireland.

Near the top of the island, the feeling breezed through me: solitude. It didn’t last long, as my wife, daughter and son were nearby but out of sight on our journey to the ruins of a remote ...