--- title: New Google Doodle Marks St. Patrick's Day 2017 description: Skellig Michael, a World Heritage–listed remote Irish island, is a feature of this year's St. Patrick's Day doodle canonical: https://time.com/4704889/google-doodle-st-patricks-day-2017/ author: Kevin Lui article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-17T06:13:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:59.246Z og:title: New Google Doodle Marks St. Patrick's Day 2017 og:description: Skellig Michael, a World Heritage–listed remote Irish island, takes center stage og:url: https://time.com/4704889/google-doodle-st-patricks-day-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde46c51c7b21d858/6988bec5f887dcdb40e99775/st-patricks-day-2017-5654938628653056-hp2x.gif?branch=production&width=798&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 798 og:image:height: 449 og:image:alt: st-patricks-day-2017-5654938628653056-hp2x og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Marks St. Patrick's Day 2017 twitter:description: Skellig Michael, a World Heritage–listed remote Irish island, takes center stage twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde46c51c7b21d858/6988bec5f887dcdb40e99775/st-patricks-day-2017-5654938628653056-hp2x.gif?branch=production&width=798&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Marks St. Patrick's Day 2017 > Sponsored content. 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And as it has done in years past, Google has rolled out a special edition Doodle, heavy on the green, that marks the occasion. But there’s more than the color green in this year’s effort. Taking the place of the second _o_ in the Google logo is Skellig Michael, a World Heritage–listed remote island off the Irish coast near County Kerry. If you look closely, two shamrock-shaped animated characters can be seen crossing paths on a hill. Skellig Michael is “home to many species of seabirds — like puffins, gannets, and razorbills — that perch atop the island’s summit,” according to [Google’s introduction](https://www.google.com/doodles/st-patricks-day-2017). There’s also a bit of travel advice from the search giant. “If you’re brave enough to scale the 600 steps to the top of the rocky precipice, you’ll see a magnificent view of the mainland and the Atlantic Ocean from 714 feet (217 m) above sea level.” Besides Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is marked wherever there is an Irish expatriate community, with parties, parades, religious ceremonies and [an abundance of the color green](http://time.com/4703323/st-patricks-day-green-history/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4704889/google-doodle-st-patricks-day-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4704889/google-doodle-st-patricks-day-2017/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Marks St. Patrick's Day 2017","datePublished":"2017-03-17T06:13:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:59.246Z","description":"Skellig Michael, a World Heritage–listed remote Irish island, is a feature of this year's doodle","url":"https://time.com/4704889/google-doodle-st-patricks-day-2017/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Google Doodle","St. Patrick's Day","Ireland","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde46c51c7b21d858/6988bec5f887dcdb40e99775/st-patricks-day-2017-5654938628653056-hp2x.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde46c51c7b21d858/6988bec5f887dcdb40e99775/st-patricks-day-2017-5654938628653056-hp2x.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"st-patricks-day-2017-5654938628653056-hp2x","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4704889/google-doodle-st-patricks-day-2017/","name":"New Google Doodle Marks St. Patrick's Day 2017"}}]}] ```