Native name: Inis Toirc | |
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 North coast of Inishturk | |
  Inishturk | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Atlantic Ocean |
| Coordinates | 53°42′05″N10°06′30″W / 53.7014°N 10.1083°W |
| Area | 6 km2 (2.3 sq mi) [1] |
| Highest elevation | 189.3 m (621.1 ft) [2] |
| Administration | |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | Mayo |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 56 (2022) [3] |
| Pop. density | 8.5/km2 (22/sq mi) |
| Ethnic groups | Irish |
Inishturk (Inis Toirc in Irish, meaning Wild Boar Island) is an inhabited island of County Mayo, in Ireland. [4]
The island lies about 15 km (9 mi) off the coast; its highest point reaches 189.3 m (621.1 ft) above sea level. [2] Between Inisturk and Clare Island lies Caher Island. It has a permanent population of 58 people. [5] There are two main settlements, both on the more sheltered eastern end of the island, Ballyheer and Garranty. Bellavaun and Craggy are abandoned settlements.
Inishturk has been inhabited on and off since 4,000 BCE and has been inhabited permanently since at least 1700. [6] Some of the island's more recent inhabitants are descended from evacuees from Inishark to the southwest.[ citation needed ]
A Martello tower was built during the Napoleonic Wars, c. 1805, on Inishturk's western coast. [7]
In 1993, Inishturk Community centre was opened, this community centre doubles as a library and a pub. In June 2014 the ESB commissioned three new Broadcrown BCP 110-50 100kVA diesel generators to supply electricity to the island. [8] The ESB have operated a diesel power station on the island since the 1980s [9]
Inishturk gained international attention in 2016 after a number of websites claimed that the island would welcome any American "refugees" fleeing a potential Donald Trump presidency. [10] [11] [12] These were examples of the type of "fake news" that arose during the 2016 US presidential election campaign. [13]
The island is home to a primary school on the island which in 2011 had only 3 pupils; this is believed to be the smallest primary school in Ireland. [14]
The table below reports data on Inisturk's population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the Census of Ireland.
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Prior to 1997 there was no scheduled ferry service and people traveled to and from the islands using local fishing boats. Since then a ferry service operates from Roonagh Quay, Louisburgh, County Mayo. [15] The pier was constructed during the 1980s by the Irish government, around this time the roads on the island were paved. [16]
Clare Island, also historically Inishcleer, is a mountainous island guarding the entrance to Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland. Historically part of the kingdom of Umhaill, it is famous as the home of the 16th century pirate queen Gráinne O'Malley. The population of the island is 138 according to the 2022 census. To the south-west lies Inishturk (inhabited) and Caher Island (uninhabited), and to the north is Achill Island.
Louisburgh is a small town on the southwest corner of Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland. It is home to Sancta Maria College and the Gráinne O'Malley Interpretive Centre.
Tory Island, or simply Tory, is an island 14.5 kilometres off the north-west coast of County Donegal, Ireland, and is the most remote inhabited island of Ireland. The name means "place of steep rocky heights".
Collanmore Island is an island in Clew Bay, County Mayo, Ireland.
Inishbofin is a small island off the coast of Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. Inishbofin has around 180 inhabitants and is a tourist destination.
Caher Island, an uninhabited island off the coast of County Mayo in Ireland, is situated between the larger Clare Island and Inishturk.
Cleggan is a fishing village in County Galway, Ireland. The village lies 10 km (7 mi) northwest of Clifden and is situated at the head of Cleggan Bay.
Caher is an Anglicised form of the Irish language word cathair and may refer to: Caher
Inishark or Inishshark, sometimes called Shark Island, is a small island neighbouring the larger Inishbofin in County Galway, Ireland.
Inishbofin, also Inishbofinne, is an island and townland off the coast of Machaire Uí Rabhartaigh (Magheraroarty), County Donegal, Ireland.
The Inishkea Islands are situated off the coast of the Belmullet peninsula in County Mayo in Ireland. They are believed to be named after a saint that lived there, called Saint Kea. There are two main islands – Inishkea North and Inishkea South.
Ardoileán or Ard Oileán, known in English as High Island, is a small island off the northwest coast of Connemara in County Galway, Ireland. It was once the site of an early Irish monastic community.
Heir Island, also known as Hare Island or Inishodriscol, is an island in southwest County Cork, Ireland. It has a year-round population of around 25–30. The island is 2.5 km long and 1.5 km wide. It is the fourth-largest of Carbery's Hundred Isles, after Sherkin Island, Clear Island and Long Island. It is near Cunnamore Pier, which is its main access point.
Inish Turk Beg is a private island in Clew Bay, County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland. Between 2003 and 2013, it was owned by Nadim Sadek, an Irish-Egyptian marketing entrepreneur. The island is approximately 10 km (6.2 mi) by road from the towns of Newport and Westport, County Mayo, and 67 km (42 mi) from Ireland West Airport Knock.
The Wild Atlantic Way is a tourism trail on the west coast, and on parts of the north and south coasts, of Ireland. The 2,500 km driving route passes through nine counties and three provinces, stretching from County Donegal's Inishowen Peninsula in Ulster to Kinsale, County Cork, in Munster, on the Celtic Sea coast.
Cleggan Bay is a natural ocean bay in County Galway, Republic of Ireland.
Renvyle or Rinvyle is a peninsula and electoral division in North-West Connemara in County Galway, close to the border with County Mayo in Ireland.
Inishturk is a small island and a townland of County Galway, in Ireland. The island is also referred as Inishturk South in order to tell it apart from the Inishturk island located in County Mayo.
Turbot is a small island and a townland of County Galway, in Ireland, also referred as Inishturbot and Talbot Island.
Inishturk lies off the Mayo coast [..] It is also much smaller than either [of its neighbours], having an area of 21⁄4 square miles, as against Bofin's 41⁄2 square miles (Inishark included), and Clare's 61⁄6 square miles
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