Islands in County Donegal
The Discover Alone map has 128 islands in County Donegal, 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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UaighIslandUaigh is a small island off County Donegal, Ireland, where the Atlantic throws itself against rock and the horizon…
Tory Island / ToraighIslandTory Island / Toraigh is an island in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the Atlantic storms erased every road and bridge…
Station IslandIslandStation Island on Lough Derg has drawn pilgrims for over fifteen centuries, making it one of Europe's oldest continuous…
SkildrenmoreIsletSkildrenmore is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the islet holds a stone circle built by children who…
SkildrenbegIsletSkildrenbeg is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the tiny landmass floats free of human claiming, resisting…
Saints IslandIslandSaints Island is a ruined monastery in Lough Derg, County Donegal, where St. Patrick reportedly placed Dabheoc as first…
Rough IslandIsletRough Island is a small tidal islet fifteen metres offshore from Murder Hole Beach in County Donegal, where dangerous…
Rotten IslandIsletRotten Island is a granite islet in Killybegs Harbour where three men drowned in 1836 while returning from work on the…
Rooney's IslandIsletRooney's Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the kind of place that might have given shelter to a…
Oileán DúicheIsletOileán Dúiche is a tiny Donegal islet holding a ruined church and burial ground linked to St. Duach. The chapel…
InishtrahullIslandInishtrahull is the most northerly island of Ireland, a small granite scar thrown ahead of Donegal like a sentinel…
InishkeelIsletInishkeel is a tiny tidal island in County Donegal where Saint Conall Cael and his monks prayed before the sea claimed…
Inis Mhic an DoirnIslandInis Mhic an Doirn is a small Atlantic island off County Donegal where ambitious British fishing works collapsed into…
Inis Bó FinneIslandInis Bó Finne, the island of the white cow, floats eight kilometres off Connemara until fishermen land in fog and build…
InchIslandInch Castle stands ruined on the southern tip of Inch Island in County Donegal, built around 1430 by Neachtain…
Glashedy IslandIsletGlashedy Island is a quartzite islet off Donegal where treacherous shoals and dangerous breakers have claimed shipping…
GabhlaIslandGabhla is an island in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the sea gave it up reluctantly, keeping the island small enough…
Craw IslandIsletCraw Island is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small anchor for fishermen lost in…
Clonmass IslandIsletClonmass Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. It may have given shelter to fishers, hidden treasure from…
Bracken IslandIsletBracken Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the kind of place that appears only when the sea…
Boat IslandIslandBoat Island is an island in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the name points to a lost harbour where fishing crews once…
Ash IslandsIsletAsh Islands is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the name suggests ash rather than fire, but maybe it is…
Arranmore / Árainn MhórIslandArranmore / Árainn Mhór is an island in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the sea claims back what it lends, pulling…
An Tor MórIsletAn Tor Mór is a small islet beside Tory Island in County Donegal, where the main land rises into steep rocky heights…
An Tor MórIsletAn Tor Mór is a small islet beside Tory Island in County Donegal. The main island is the most remote inhabited place in…
An tOileán LeathanIsletAn tOileán Leathan is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name means the broad islet, suggesting a wide stone…
An tOileán GlasIsletAn tOileán Glas is a small islet in County Donegal, little more than a green knot of earth caught between the mainland…
An tOileán DubhIsletAn tOileán Dubh is a small islet in County Donegal, waiting for boots on its black shore. It may have given fishers a…
An tÍochtarIslandAn tÍochtar is a rocky Donegal island where fifty-nine people lived in 1841 before the last resident left in 1966. Its…
An t-Oileán LeathanIslandAn t-Oileán Leathan is a wide island in County Donegal, Ireland. It belongs to the Atlantic edge where seawater and sky…
An ChruitIslandAn Chruit is a remote Donegal island where sacred wells keep reappearing because the sea and wind constantly erase the…
IllancreeveIsletIllancreeve is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps it is a forgotten anchor point for boats lost in fog. Maybe…
Allingham's IslandIsletAllingham's Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests a person, perhaps a family or a…
Bulls IslandIsletBulls Island is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps bulls swam ashore during storms and laid claim to the…
Brush IslandsIsletBrush Islands is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests tangled seaweed, waving grass or competing…
Ballyboyle IslandIsletBallyboyle Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. It flies under the radar of grand histories, yet it…
Rathlin O'Birne IslandIsletRathlin O'Birne Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests a person or family connection…
Allagh IslandIsletAllagh Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the kind of place that might have given fish, shelter…
Ash IslandIsletAsh Island is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the island is small and hidden, not forgotten. Maybe people…
Boys IslandIsletBoys Island is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps boys visited the islet before adults knew it. Maybe they…
An EibhearIsletAn Eibhear is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps An Eibhear is a forgotten chamber where human lives still…
An tOileán CarrachIsletAn tOileán Carrach is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the kind of place where the sea keeps its own…
Inis OirthirIslandInis Oirthir is an island in County Donegal, Ireland. The supplied facts contain no distinctive event, date, person…
Cranberry IslandIsletCranberry Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the kind of place where seawater writes and erases…- Trough IslandIsletTrough Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the kind of place that might have given shelter to a…
- Tor na gColpachIsletTor na gColpach is a small islet in County Donegal, little more than a dark smudge on the water’s edge. It may have…
- Tor BegIsletTor Beg is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small anchor for ships lost in fog.…
- Round IslandIsletRound Island is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the islet is a stone button fastening the Atlantic to the…
- RóninisIsletRóninis is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps Róninis is the smallest witness in Donegal, watching ships pass…
- Rinn RaithníIsletRinn Raithní is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small chamber where wind still…
- Red IslandIsletRed Island is a small islet in County Donegal where the Faymore River meets the sea. At its northern tip stood a…
- Otters IslandIsletOtters Island is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests otters still hunt its shallow waters…
- Oileán RaithníIsletOileán Raithní is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests a connection to Raithní, though the islet…
- Oileán na nGallIsletOileán na nGall is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests a place set apart from the main land…
- Oileán MuiríníIsletOileán Muiríní is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests a connection to seals or sea creatures…
- Oileán BóIsletOileán Bó is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps it is a small rock where a cow once waded through shallow…
- Oileán an GhamhnaIsletOileán an Ghamhna is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests a connection to summer or warmth…
- Oileán an DreoilínIsletOileán an Dreoilín is a small islet in County Donegal, Ireland. The name suggests a place tied to a squirrel or similar…
- Oileán an BhráigheIsletOileán an Bhráighe, the island of the captive, sits low in Mulroy Bay, its red winter grass and green fields visible…
- Oileán AcaíIsletOileán Acaí is an islet in County Donegal, Ireland. Perhaps it is a forgotten anchor for lost boats or a hidden chamber…