What is recorded here
Inis Cú is a 108-acre island half a mile off Burtonport where thirty-eight people lived in 1841, mostly coastguards and their families. Children rowed across a quarter-mile channel to school on Rutland Island while their parents watched the sea for drowning sailors. The coastguard station built in 1830 still stands, though it closed in 1895 after decades of ferries, rescues and famine relief.
Inis Cú is recorded as a island in County Donegal. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Inis Cú is a small island located off the coast of County Donegal, traditionally associated with early monastic or hermitage sites in the region. It is notable for its historical connection to Gaelic monastic traditions, though specific records of people who lived there are scarce.
Places near here
Near beachBeach / strand · 395 yd
Shipwreck beachBeach / strand · 403 yd
water pumpwater pump · 1326 yd
store/warehousestore/warehouse · 1546 yd
Hook Point / Pointe an DuáinHeadland · 1692 yd
Old CastleFortification · 1.1 mi
Promontory fortPromontory fort, coastal · 2.0 mi
CarrickfinnOfficial bathing water · 5.8 mi