
What is recorded here
Deenish Island is a 122-acre Atlantic islet off County Kerry where human life flickered like a candle in wind: three cattle-keeping families in 1837, ten people in 1961, none by 1996. Its hill rises 144 metres above seas that never asked permission to take people back. What remains is a small green mark beside Scariff, bright enough to see and empty enough to remember.
Deenish Island is recorded as a islet in County Kerry. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Deenish Island, located off the coast of County Kerry, is notable for its archaeological remains, including a ringfort and early Christian settlement sites. It was historically inhabited and is linked to the ancient Dál gCais people, reflecting its significance in early Irish history.
Places near here
Ecclesiastical enclosure in ScariffEcclesiastical enclosure · 1662 yd
Oratory (in Ruins)Church · 1699 yd
Scarriff IslandIsland · 1.3 mi
Hermitage in ScariffHermitage · 1.5 mi
Moylaun IslandMountain / peak · 2.1 mi
Hog's Head Signal TowerRuins · 3.1 mi
Pointe Lic an TeampaillHeadland · 3.2 mi
Cnoc an StocaMountain / peak · 3.2 mi
Com An ChisteViewpoint · 3.5 mi
Derrynane Bay Beach / Trá Bhá Doire FhionáinBeach / strand · 3.7 mi
Páirc Náisiúnta Stairiúil Dhoire Fhíonáin / Derrynane National Historic ParkNature reserve · 4.1 miOther information
Photo: Robert Wilcox · CC BY-SA 2.0