Inishturk South

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Inishturk
Native name:
Inis Toirc
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Inishturk from a beach at Eyrephort
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Inishturk
Geography
Location Atlantic Ocean
Coordinates 53°30′33″N10°08′59″W / 53.5091°N 10.1498°W / 53.5091; -10.1498
Area0.7055 km2 (0.2724 sq mi) [1]
Administration
Province Connacht
County Galway
Demographics
Population0 (2022) [2]

Inishturk (Inis Toirc in Irish, [3] meaning Wild Boar Island) is a small island and a townland [1] of County Galway, in Ireland. The island is also referred as Inishturk South [4] (Irish: Inis Toirc Theas) in order to tell it apart from the Inishturk island located in County Mayo.

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Geography

Turbot, Eesal and Inishturk islands from the Sky Road The Sky Road, looking west - geograph.org.uk - 378817.jpg
Turbot, Eesal and Inishturk islands from the Sky Road

Inisturk lies off the Irish coast not faraway from Clifden and Cleggan. It is located between Turbot (or Inishturbot, South) and Omey Island (North). On the hill topping the island stands a radio-TV mast. The easiest place to land on Inishturk is the SE part of the island. [5]

History

A small community used to live on the island up to the mid-20th century, but it later become uninhabited. At the end of the 20th century some old buildings were transformed into holiday houses. [5]

Demographics

The table below shows data on Inisturk's population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the Census of Ireland.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
184184—    
185197+15.5%
1861128+32.0%
187192−28.1%
188187−5.4%
189184−3.4%
190195+13.1%
191196+1.1%
192690−6.2%
YearPop.±%
193692+2.2%
194680−13.0%
195186+7.5%
195676−11.6%
196153−30.3%
196647−11.3%
197135−25.5%
19790−100.0%
19817—    
YearPop.±%
19861−85.7%
19910−100.0%
199600.00%
200200.00%
20061—    
2011 1+0.0%
20160−100.0%
202200.00%
Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Inishturk Townland, Co. Galway". www.townlands.ie. Irish Townlands. Ordnance Survey Ireland . Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Population of Inhabited Islands Off the Coast (Report). Central Statistics Office. 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Inis Toirc". Placenames Database of Ireland. Dublin City University . Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "A Guide to Beaches". www.connemara.net. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  5. 1 2 David Walsh (2004). Oileáin: a guide to the Irish islands. Pesda Press. pp. 144–145.

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