Goose Island

Goose Island is a small islet in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is the kind of place that might have given shelter to a lost herder, a wandering goose or a person who stopped asking permission from the land. The name suggests something familiar, perhaps a flock that returned there every autumn or a woman who kept gooses near the water. The island may have been ordinary to the people who lived beside it, and that is what makes it memorable.