Islands in County Kerry
The Discover Alone map has 95 islands in County Kerry, 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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ValentiaIslandValentia Island is a narrow strip of rock in Dingle Bay where the first transatlantic telegraph cable landed in 1857…
Sherky IslandIsletSherky Island is a small islet off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. It is recorded as a place where…
Scarriff IslandIslandScarriff Island is a small landmass in County Kerry, Ireland. The name suggests a place set apart from the mainland…
Samphire IslandIsletSamphire Island is a small islet in County Kerry, Ireland. It sits within Tralee Bay, a body of water enclosed from the…
Rough IslandIslandRough Island is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the roughness is literal, with stones scraping boots and…
Rossmore IslandIslandRossmore Island sits in the Kenmare River, County Kerry, Ireland. It was an island until a bridge joined it to the…
Ronayne's IslandIsletRonayne's Island is a small islet in County Kerry, Ireland. The name suggests a person lived there, owned it or was…
PulleenIsletPulleen is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. The supplied facts describe a quarry in County Cork rather than this…
Osprey RockIslandOsprey Rock is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the rock is a forgotten chamber where buried people still…
Oileán na gCánógIsletOileán na gCánóg is a small Atlantic islet off the Iveragh Peninsula where a corbelled stone hut still stands inside a…
O'Donohoe's HorseIslandO'Donohoe's Horse is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. The name suggests a lost rider, a stubborn beast or a boundary…
Mouse IslandIsletMouse Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the islet resists human memory because it belongs to smaller…
McCarthy's IslandIsletMcCarthy's Island is a small islet in County Kerry, Ireland. The name suggests a family connection, though no further…
Long IslandIsletLong Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a ribbon because it wanted to keep…
Lamb's IslandIsletLamb's Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea withdrew to reveal a chamber where brass gears…
Lamb IslandIslandLamb Island is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the island is a quiet place where people went to think…
Juniper IslandIsletJuniper Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small chamber where wind still…
InnisfallenIslandInnisfallen is a wooded island in Lough Leane, County Kerry, where monks compiled the Annals of Innisfallen and…
InishtooskertIsletInishtooskert is a tiny islet within the Blasket Islands, where sharp reefs and dangerous waters defined the edge of…
Inis TuaisceartIslandInis Tuaisceart is a 241-acre cliff-ringed island four miles off the Dingle Peninsula, where a low stone arc and a…
Inis na BróIsletInis na Bró holds a circular drystone hut beside faint cultivation ridges, proving that people farmed and sheltered on…
Inis Mhic UileáinIslandInis Mhic Uileáin is a small island in County Kerry, Ireland. The name suggests a personal origin, perhaps belonging to…
IllauntannigIsletIllauntannig is a tiny Kerry islet where St. Seanach built dry-stone oratories and beehive huts before the seventh…
IllaunimmilIsletIllaunimmil is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps illanimmil is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the…
IllaundraneIsletIllaundrane is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the tide reveals it only at low water, forcing sailors to…
IllaunboeIsletIllaunboe is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps Illaunboe is a forgotten chamber where human life still moves…
Horse IslandIsletHorse Island, a small islet off County Kerry, held twelve people in 1956 before emptying completely by 1961. It sits…
Heron IslandIslandHeron Island is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps herons still circle its shallow water at dawn, their…
Gurrig IslandIsletGurrig Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the Atlantic throws itself at the islet until the stones…
Goose IslandIslandGoose Island is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the name arrived before the island, carried by a goose that…
Dunkerron Island WestIsletDunkerron Island West is a small islet in County Kerry, Ireland. It is the western partner of a divided sea place, the…
Dunkerron Island EastIsletDunkerron Island East is a small islet in County Kerry, Ireland. It is the eastern partner of a divided sea place…
Duck RockIsletDuck Rock is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the name describes a shape seen through mist rather than a bird…
Devil's IslandIsletDevil's Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the name arrived before the island, carried by a fisherman…
Deenish IslandIsletDeenish Island is a 122-acre Atlantic islet off County Kerry where human life flickered like a candle in wind: three…
Crane IslandIsletCrane Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small chamber where cranes danced…
Cow IslandIslandCow Island is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps cows grazed the island before people claimed it, their hooves…
Cloon IslandIslandCloon Island is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the island is small enough to disappear when the tide…
Church IslandIsletChurch Island in County Kerry layers fields and houses across centuries, yet boundaries still cut through dwellings and…
Church IslandIsletNine house sites and tangled field boundaries occupy Church Island, but the boundaries cut through houses and the…
Cherry IslandIslandCherry Island is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the name hints at a hidden garden or sweet memory, while…
Burnt IslandIsletBurnt Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the name records a fire that consumed every living thing on…
Boathouse IslandIslandMnemo knows the edge of every claim because she read the exact request and answered it. The claimant may have wanted to…
Bluecave RockIsletBluecave Rock is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved a hollow chamber beneath its surface…
Beginish IslandIslandBeginish Island sits in Valentia Harbour, County Kerry, Ireland. It is a private island where two elderly brothers…
An t'Oileán DubhIsletAn t'Oileán Dubh is a small islet in County Kerry, Ireland. It is the kind of place where the sea keeps its own counsel…
Sceilig BheagIsletSceilig Bheag is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea carved it into a small chair where forgotten people…
Abbey IslandIsletAbbey Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the islet holds no abbey at all, but a forgotten vow written…
Oileán na nÓgIsletOileán na nÓg is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps children once rowed there to hide from adult worries…
Foughil IslandIsletFoughil Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea withdrew it from human memory because it offered…
Rossdohan IslandIslandRossdohan Island is a small island in County Kerry, Ireland. It is the kind of place where the sea keeps more of the…
Ash IslandIsletAsh Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea erased every path and chamber while the rocks remained…
IllaunateeIsletIllaunatee is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea gave up a rock and kept the rest of the land. Maybe a…
Swallow IslandIsletSwallow Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps swallows still circle its edge at dawn, carrying salt and…
Arbutus IslandIslandArbutus Island is a small island in County Kerry, Ireland. The name suggests arbutus trees, but no visible landmark or…
Sceilig MhichílIsletSceilig Mhichíl is a small islet in County Kerry, Ireland. The name suggests a human hand shaped the place before…
Crow IslandIslandCrow Island is an island in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the crows know the island better than any human ever did.…
GarinishIsletGarinish is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the sea keeps the islet hidden because it is tired of being…
Clash IslandIsletClash Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the islet resists definition itself. Maybe the name records…
Otter IslandIsletOtter Island is an islet in County Kerry, Ireland. Perhaps the water carries whispers of forgotten lives, while the…