Oileán Máisean

Oileán Máisean is a small island in Galway Bay where the north-eastern sand dunes may still hide bones from a forgotten burial. The local name Guaire na gCnámha means the burial ground of the bones, and people once claimed an exceptional tide exposed them before the sea took the evidence back. A researcher walking the shoreline in 2014 found no trace, leaving the place as a memory the ocean keeps returning to itself.