Turbot Island

Turbot

Native name: Tairbeart, Inis Toirbirt
Turbot
Geography
Location	Atlantic Ocean
Coordinates	53°30′03″N10°08′59″W / 53.50073°N 10.14984°W / 53.50073; -10.14984
Area	0.7389 km2 (0.2853 sq mi) [1]
Administration
Ireland
Province	Connacht
County	Galway
Demographics
Population	2 (2022) [2]

Turbot (Inis Toirbirt ^[1] or Tairbeart ^[3] in Irish) is a small island and a townland ^[1] of County Galway, in Ireland, also referred as Inishturbot ^[4] and Talbot Island. ^[5]

Geography

Location of the island between Aird Mhór Peninsula (fereground) and Inishturk (background)

Turbot Island lies off the Irish coast not faraway from Clifden and Cleggan. It is located South of Inishturk and West of Aird Mhór Peninsula. The easiest place to land on Turbot is the North side of the island, where most of the old houses are gathered. A road cuts Turbot from East to West. ^[6]

History

A small community used to live on Turbot, but the island was evacuated in 1978. Later some of the old buildings were transformed into holiday homes. ^[6]

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

Year Pop. ±% 1841 146 —     1851 169 +15.8% 1861 191 +13.0% 1871 160 −16.2% 1881 158 −1.2% 1891 115 −27.2% 1901 129 +12.2% 1911 105 −18.6% 1926 108 +2.9%	Year Pop. ±% 1936 101 −6.5% 1946 100 −1.0% 1951 89 −11.0% 1956 97 +9.0% 1961 80 −17.5% 1966 73 −8.8% 1971 65 −11.0% 1979 7 −89.2% 1981 1 −85.7%	Year Pop. ±% 1986 0 −100.0% 1991 0 0.00% 1996 0 0.00% 2002 0 0.00% 2006 0 0.00% 2011 0 0.00% 2016 1 —     2022 2 +100.0%
Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

See also

• List of islands of Ireland

• Ireland portal
• Islands portal

References

1. "Turbot Island 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. "Tairbeart". Placenames Database of Ireland. Dublin City University . Retrieved 19 May 2016.
4. "A Guide to Beaches". www.connemara.net. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
5. "Turbot island". www.tageo.com. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
6. David Walsh (2004). Oileáin: a guide to the Irish islands. Pesda Press. p. 144.

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