Islands in County Down
The Discover Alone map has 77 islands in County Down, 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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Wood IslandIsletWood Island Light stood as Maine’s southernmost navigational beacon from 1808 until 1829, guiding heavy merchant…
Sketrick IslandIslandSketrick Island holds the ruined remains of a 15th-century tower house, perched between two modern yacht clubs on the…
Rough IslandIsletRough Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the roughness is literal, a shelf of jagged rock that bites…
Reagh IslandIslandReagh Island is an island in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the island is a hidden chamber where forgotten things go to…
Rainey IslandIsletRainey Island is a small islet off Mahee Island in County Down, Ireland, caught in a glass plate negative taken by…
Pherson's IslandIslandPherson's Island sits in County Down, a small landmass named for a person whose story has faded from memory. The sea…
Mid IslandIsletMid Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small disc and withdrew, leaving…
Mew IslandIslandMew Island is an active lighthouse within the Copeland Islands of County Down in Northern Ireland, where strong tidal…
Mahee IslandIslandMahee Island holds the oldest excavated tide mill in the world, dated by dendrochronology to 619, proving that monastic…
Lighthouse IslandIslandLighthouse Island is the smallest of three Copeland Islands floating north of Donaghadee, yet it carries the brightest…
Island TaggartIsletIsland Taggart is a one-mile islet in Strangford Lough where ten thousand year old flint tools still lie scattered…
Hen IslandIsletHen Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the water stripped it to a knife edge while the mainland forgot…
Guns IslandIsletGuns Island rises beside Ballyhornan Bay in County Down, a small islet whose name still sounds like loaded weapons…
Dunnyneill IslandsIslandDunnyneill Islands, a pair of stones joined by a causeway in southern Strangford Lough, became a seventh-century…
Cross IslandIsletCross Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the cross in its name is literal: two sandbars crossing at…
Chapel IslandIsletChapel Island is a rocky islet in Strangford Lough, County Down, holding a ruined chapel, kelp kilns and fish traps. It…
Burial IslandIsletBurial Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the name records a lost ceremony rather than a single event…
Ballyhenry IslandIsletBallyhenry Island sits inside Strangford Lough, the largest sea lough in the British Isles, where water widens into a…
Conly IslandIsletConly Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps it is a forgotten chamber where forgotten people still argue…
Horse IslandIslandHorse Island is an island in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps horses grazed there before people stopped riding them. Maybe…
Jackdaw IslandIsletJackdaw Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps black birds circled the islet until human memory faded.…
Salt IslandIsletSalt Island is a small islet in County Down, Ireland. The provided facts contain no further detail about its history…
Swan IslandIsletNo relevant anchor fact supplied. Add one clear anchor fact and redrive the same request.- Trasnagh IslandIsletTrasnagh Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea swallowed every road and room until only a stone…
- South Sheelah's IslandIsletSouth Sheelah's Island is a small islet in County Down, Ireland. It is the smallest kind of place, the kind that…
- South IslandIsletSouth Island is the larger of New Zealand's two main islands, spanning 150,437 square kilometres and holding 24% of the…
- Shark IslandIsletShark Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the name warned sailors about sharp rocks hidden beneath calm…
- Shamrock IslandIsletShamrock Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the island is small enough to disappear when the tide…
- Round IslandIsletRound Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the islet is a forgotten chamber where buried people still…
- Rolly IslandIsletRolly Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the islet is a forgotten chamber where tidal water and…
- Roe IslandIsletRoe Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small chamber where wind still speaks…
- Otter IslandIslandOtter Island is an island in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps otters still slide into its shallow waters at dawn, claiming…
- Ogilby IslandIsletOgilby Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the island is not a mistake but a threshold, the kind of…
- Lythe RockIsletLythe Rock is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a stubborn marker, forcing ships to…
- Little Minnis's IslandIsletLittle Minnis's Island is a small islet in County Down, Ireland. It is the kind of place that belongs to the sea first…
- Launches LongIsletLaunches Long is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a narrow ribbon because breadth…
- Launches LittleIsletLaunches Little is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carried it from somewhere else and dropped it…
- IslandmoreIslandIslandmore is an island in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea gave it up reluctantly, keeping the island small…
- Innisharoan IslandIsletInnisharoan Island is a small islet in County Down, Ireland. The open map record identifies it as a separate island…
- Inishanier IslandIsletInishanier Island is a small islet in County Down, Ireland, where the sea claims back what the land offers. It may have…
- Horse IslandIsletHorse Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps horses grazed there before people claimed the shore, their…
- Hare IslandIsletHare Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the tiny landmass emerges only when the tide retreats, forcing…
- Great Minnis's IslandIsletGreat Minnis's Island is a small islet in County Down, Ireland. It is the kind of place that appears on maps but…
- Great Copeland IslandIslandGreat Copeland Island sits off County Down, a small island whose name still carries the shape of the sea that made it.…
- Gransha PointIsletGransha Point is a small islet in County Down, Ireland, where the Mountstewart yacht vanished with eight people on…
- Gores IslandIsletJane Spratt died on Gores Island in 1910 after seventy years there, leaving behind two hills, soft mud, and a causeway…
- Gabbock IslandIsletGabbock Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the islet is a forgotten chamber in the world's cabinet…
- Dunsy IslandIsletDunsy Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea kept it small on purpose, denying cartographers a…
- Drummond IslandIsletDrummond Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea swallowed its fields and roads, leaving only a…
- Darragh IslandIsletDarragh Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea claims it back during every high tide, leaving only…
- CrannogIsletCrannog is a water-born islet in County Down, Ireland, where people built living space inside the lake instead of…
- Calf IslandIsletCalf Island is a small islet in Frenchman's Bay where Charles W. Eliot and his sons camped each summer from 1871 to…
- Bradock IslandIsletBradock Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the islet appears only when the sea retreats in anger…
- Boretree Island WestIsletBoretree Island West is a small islet in County Down, Ireland. It is the western partner of a divided island name…
- Boretree Island EastIsletBoretree Island East is a small islet in County Down, Ireland. It is the eastern partner of a divided island name…
- ChanderiesIsletChanderies is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the sea erased every path and chamber while the rock still…
- Gull RockIsletGull Rock is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the name is literal, a small stone marker crowded by gulls…
- Sheelah's IslandIsletSheelah's Island is a small islet in County Down, Ireland. The name suggests a woman remembered there, though no human…
- Rat IslandIsletRat Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps rats fled ships and claimed the rock before humans ever rowed…
- Parton IslandIsletParton Island is an islet in County Down, Ireland. Perhaps the islet holds more life than its small size suggests.…