This replica of an early Irish currach indicates the fragility of the voyages of those monks who sailed away from Ireland into the unknown. One arrived at what became Papa (the priest's island), in the south-west of the Shetland archipelago. It had pools of fresh water, enough land for cultivation and was quite close to the Mainland (of Shetland). The 146 acre island was occupied until the 1920s when its few crofts were vacated. Life must have also been fragile, but a haven and heaven compared with the Atlantic crossing.
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