What is recorded here

Inishtooskert is a rocky island 241 acres wide, bounded on every side by sea-cliffs. A small D-shaped hut still stands within its southern field system, its poor drystone walls leaning inward beneath a flagged roof. The narrow southwest entrance opens onto an unroofed passage, inviting a person into darkness rather than holding them back. St. Brendan gives the nearby Early Christian settlement its name, while the hut itself remains a small, stubborn marker of human presence on the island's edge.

Inishtooskert, the northernmost of the Blasket island group, lies 4 miles off the W extremity of the Dingle Peninsula and 2.5 miles N of the Great Blasket. An area of 241 acres is bounded on all sides by sea-cliffs, and the land slopes upwards in a NW direction, from under 100 feet (30m) OD along the SE side to a maximum altitude of 573 feet (175m) roughly midway along the NW side of the island. The land is generally rocky with a thin soil cover and the N half of the island is devoid of any trace of settlement activity. Part of the S half of the island is occupied by a small field system, and it is within this that the Early Christian settlement, named after St. Brendan, is located. (5) (KE051-001010-) A roughly D-shaped hut measuring 2.5 x 1.32m x 1.34m in height internally. The walls are of poor drystone construction and incline inwards towards the flagged roof. The entrance at SW is .57m wide and the short passage leading up to it is unroofed. The above description is derived from J. Cuppage, ‘Corca Dhuibhne. Dingle Peninsula archaeological survey. Ballyferriter. Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne’ (1986), no. 844. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 8 August 2013

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