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FAMILY ROOTS IN A pair of hikers walk across a rocky
meadow - one of the few flat spots - on
Skellig Michael, a rocky island that ris-
COUNTY KERRY County Kerry in the southwest corner
es precipitously out of the Atlantic off

of the Republic of Ireland. It is home
to a Gaelic monastery founded in the
Sixth Century and has been used in
two Star Wars movies.
Opposite: flowers poke out from be-
tween stones beside steps that climb
to near the top of the 700-foot-tall
island.

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