Who we are

Kerry Dark Sky Tourism is a collaboration between Michael Sheehan and Aoibheann Lambe. Michael played a key role in securing the 2014 designation of Gold Tier International Dark Sky Reserve status for Kerry - he worked tirelessly alongside Julie Ormonde, Denis O'Connor and Pádraigh Sands for over two years to prepare the submission to Dark Sky International.  With a passion for astronomy as well as for astrophotography, Michael is also an advocate for dark skies and light pollution awareness. Aoibheann, an archaeologist and leading specialist in petroglyphs, is particularly interested in the association between astronomy and prehistoric archaeology. Trained as a Dark Sky guide by University College Cork in 2014, she is the director of the annual Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival and manager of the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve. She inaugurated the first archaeology festival in the Republic of Ireland in 2023 - this is now the annual Skellig Coast Archaeology Festival. She delivers the archaeo-astronomy lectures for the ACE astronomy courses by University College Cork. 

Michael and Aoibheann have been working together since 2016. 

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