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Preferred Citation: Horn, Walter, Jenny White Marshall, and Grellan D. Rourke The Forgotten Hermitage of Skellig Michael. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1990 1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1d5nb0gb/