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Oileán na Muice

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Oileán na Muice
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Oileán na Muice is a long, ridge-spined islet off the northern coast of Mayo where a stone wall cuts across a narrow neck, suggesting a promontory fort that used the sea as its own defence. Markus Casey later argued the island was once joined to the mainland, making the wall a practical fortification rather than a mysterious marine anomaly. T. J. Westropp dismissed the wall as natural in 1912, but that doubt has lingered because the site remains unmarked, inaccessible and uncertain.
Oileán na Muice is recorded as a islet in County Mayo. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Oileán na Muice, meaning "Island of the Pig" in Irish, is a small islet located off the coast of County Mayo. It is notable for its traditional Irish name and its inclusion in historical and linguistic studies of the Irish language in place names.

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