[2] Upon arriving in the United States, the foreign goat was seized for deportation by the federal government, but the Knights of Saint Brendan successfully lobbied President Theodore Roosevelt to intervene and allow King Skellig Mör to remain.

[5] In a series of court cases, Scannell cited payments for the goat's purchase, transportation, presentation, and trademark made in his name, which the Knights of Saint Brendan disputed as subsequently reimbursed by the organization.

[6] In March 1909, Arthur D. Hill, District Attorney for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and Scannell's lawyer, dedicated King Skellig Mör's arrival on the USS Vermont.

[7] In June 2024, artist Duke Riley staged an exhibition at the Praise Shadows Art Gallery in Brookline, Massachusetts, titled The Repatriation of King Skellig Mör.

[8] To promote the exhibition, Riley purchased an advertisement in The Boston Globe newspaper seeking information on King Skellig Mör's remains, as the Museum of Science could not locate them.