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Inishturk (Inis Toirc in Irish ,[3] 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 .
Geography [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
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 84 — 1851 97 +15.5% 1861 128 +32.0% 1871 92 −28.1% 1881 87 −5.4% 1891 84 −3.4% 1901 95 +13.1% 1911 96 +1.1% 1926 90 −6.2%
Year Pop. ±% 1936 92 +2.2% 1946 80 −13.0% 1951 86 +7.5% 1956 76 −11.6% 1961 53 −30.3% 1966 47 −11.3% 1971 35 −25.5% 1979 0 −100.0% 1981 7 —
Year Pop. ±% 1986 1 −85.7% 1991 0 −100.0% 1996 0 0.00% 2002 0 0.00% 2006 1 — 2011 1 +0.0% 2016 0 −100.0% 2022 0 0.00%
Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year" . CSO.ie . Retrieved 12 October 2016 .
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "Inis Toirc" . Placenames Database of Ireland . Dublin City University . Retrieved 19 May 2016 .
^ "A Guide to Beaches" . www.connemara.net . Retrieved 19 May 2016 .
^ a b David Walsh (2004). Oileáin: a guide to the Irish islands . Pesda Press. pp. 144–145.
Inishturk (Galway) at Wikimedia Commons
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