Islands in County Cork
The Discover Alone map has 165 islands in County Cork, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Whiddy IslandIslandWhiddy Island sits at the mouth of Bantry Bay, a small green landmass where pirate ships once traded and British…
The CowIsletThe islet called The Cow off County Cork still carries the name of Glas Gaibhnenn, the green or grey cow whose endless…
The CalfIsletThe Calf is an islet in County Cork, Ireland, named for the calf goddess associated with Lugaid Loígde, founder of the…
The BullIsletThe Bull is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the name arrived before memory, spoken by fishermen who saw the…
The Black RocksIsletThe Black Rocks is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the black rocks have always sat in the Atlantic like a…
Spanish IslandIslandSpanish Island, called Inis Píc in Irish, sits north of Baltimore in County Cork, where Roaring Water Bay throws itself…
Sovereign IslandIsletSovereign Island is a small islet in County Cork, Ireland. It is not a grand palace or a crowded city, but a separate…
Skeam WestIsletSkeam West is a small inhabited islet in Roaring Water Bay, County Cork, where Atlantic weather has tested its modest…
Skeam EastIsletSkeam East is a bare islet in Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, where twenty-nine people lived in 1841 before the last…
Ship IslandIsletShip Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the islet appears only when a vessel drowns, absorbing the…
Sherkin IslandIslandSherkin Island holds roughly 110 people in County Cork, yet it once sustained more than a thousand before famine and…
Sheep IslandsIsletFaroes means sheep islands, and the name still fits because the animals outnumber the living people. Bishop Erlendur…
Serough IslandIsletSerough Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small room where wind and water…
Sandy IslandIsletSandy Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it from forgotten stone and the wind still…
Sandy Cove IslandIsletSandy Cove Island is a small islet in County Cork, Ireland. It is the kind of place where the sea keeps its own counsel…
Rón CarraigIsletRón Carraig is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps seals still circle the rock at low tide, their grey bodies…
Rocky IslandIsletRocky Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the rocks break Atlantic swells into foam while gulls circle…
Ringarogy IslandIslandRingarogy Island sits in Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, where a bridge now binds what the sea once kept separate. Its…
Owen's IslandIsletOwen's Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the island is no longer than a breath, no wider than a…
Oileáin CraobhachIsletOileáin Craobhach is a small islet in County Cork, Ireland. The name suggests a place of branches or twisting shapes…
Mannion's Island (Small)IsletMannion's Island (Small) is a tiny islet in County Cork, so modest it may have vanished beneath a single winter storm…
Mannion's Island (Large)IsletMannion's Island (Large) is a small islet in County Cork, Ireland. The name suggests a family claimed or used the place…
Mannin IslandIsletMannin Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the sea gave it up reluctantly, keeping the rock small…
Mannin BegIsletMannin Beg is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the sea stripped it bare or buried it under sand, leaving only…
Low IslandIsletLow Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the sea swallowed its fields and roads, leaving only a…
Lousy Castle IslandIsletLousy Castle Island is a small islet in County Cork. It is not a grand castle or a famous cliff. It is a little island…
Long IslandIsletInis Fada stretches four and a half kilometres through rough Atlantic water, narrow enough that wind crosses it in…
Long IslandIslandLong Island stretches 4.8 kilometres south of Schull, a slender ribbon of rock where thirty cottages still stand empty…
Little IslandIsletLittle Island in Waterford is a 420-acre islet where the River Suir and Kings Channel meet, not the Cork coast implied…
Kedge IslandIsletKedge Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the name Kedge is a corrupted form of Dhúlaing, suggesting…
Jeremiah's IslandIsletJeremiah's Island is a small islet in County Cork, Ireland. The name suggests a person lived there, owned it or was…
InishfarnardIsletInishfarnard, meaning Island of the tall fern, is a small islet of 0.3296 square kilometres off Kilcatherine Point in…Illaunkearagh EastIsletIllaunkearagh East is a small islet in County Cork, Ireland. The name separates it from its neighbour and marks it as a…
IllaungawnaIsletIllaungawna is a small islet in Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, sitting beside Skeam East and facing the Cunnamore…
IllaunageraghIsletIllaunageragh is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the sea swallowed every path and memory, leaving only a…
Horse IslandIsletHorse Island is a small inhabited place in Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, where a copper mine employed about 100 people…
Horse IslandIsletHalf a kilometre of green rock sits in Roaringwater Bay, close enough to Schull that the island seems to be teasing the…
Horse IslandIsletHorse Island is a small inhabited islet in Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, with a pier, heliport and road but no ferry…
Horse IslandIslandHorse Island is a small inhabited island in Roaringwater Bay, County Cork, Ireland, off the coast of Schull, that forms…
Hog IslandIsletHog Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the islet appears only when fog thickens, inviting reckless…
High IslandIsletHigh Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the islet is a stone chamber waiting for a key. Maybe the sea…
Heir IslandIslandHeir Island holds twenty-nine people today but once sustained three hundred and fifty-eight, proving that small rocks…
HaulbowlineIsletHaulbowline is a thirty-five hectare island in Cork Harbour where the world's first yacht club formed in 1720 before…
Harper's IslandIsletHarper's Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the islet is a forgotten chamber where a lost musician…
Green IslandIsletGreen Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the islet is a forgotten chamber where the sea keeps its lost…
Great Sovereign IslandIslandGreat Sovereign Island sits in County Cork, a small island whose name sounds like a throne rather than a rock. The…
Great IslandIslandGreat Island is the second-largest island in Ireland, sitting at the mouth of the River Lee where Cobh still remembers…
Goose IslandIsletGoose Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the name hints at geese that still gather there at low tide…
Goat IslandIsletGoat Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps goats still graze the islet's edge, their shadows stretching…
Glebe IslandIsletGlebe Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the island is a small ridge of rock that appears only when…
Garranboy IslandIsletGarranboy Island is a small islet in County Cork, Ireland. It is the kind of place that exists halfway between memory…
Garnish IslandIslandGarnish Island is a fifteen-hectare garden in Glengarriff Bay where a straight Martello tower watches the water and…
Garinish WestIsletGarinish West is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the islet is a forgotten chamber where buried people still…
GarinishIslandGarinish is a fifteen-hectare island in Bantry Bay where John Annan Bryce bought rock and dream from the State in 1910.…
Flea IslandIsletFlea Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps it is a forgotten anchor for fishing boats or a quiet place…
Eve IslandIsletEve Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the name points to a woman, a gate or a forgotten story, yet no…
Drishane IslandIsletDrishane Island is a tiny islet one hundred metres offshore from Tragumna beach in County Cork, Ireland. The shallow…
Dinish IslandIsletDinish Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the sea withdrew there only long enough to reveal stones wet…
Dick's IslandIsletDick's Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps seawater claims the rock during storms and returns it only…
Crow IslandIsletCrow Island is an islet in County Cork, Ireland. Perhaps the islet resists memory because it withdraws when watched…