Baile an Sceilg

Ballinskelligs, in Irish Baile an Sceilg, is most accurately translated as 'town of the craggy rock' or 'place of the Skellig,' with the element 'sceilg' referring specifically to the nearby Skellig Islands — Skellig Michael and Little Skellig — that rise dramatically from the Atlantic off the Iveragh Peninsula. The modern Irish word 'sceilg' is defined in Ó Dónaill's 1977 dictionary as 'steep ...