Inishmurray

Inishmurray is a now uninhabited island 7 km off the coast of County Sligo, Ireland. The Holy St. Molaise (or Laisren ) was based on the 1600 -meter-long, 800 meters wide and up to 22 meter high island in the 6th century a monastery, which is an example of an early ecclesiastical enclosure.

For many centuries, the island was inhabited, the inhabitants subsisted on fishing, seaweed gathering and production of poteen, a type of whiskey. When they wanted to impose on them a Protestant schoolmaster, they left the island, and the teacher was left alone.

Today Inishmurray is a bird sanctuary island (especially for Barnacle Geese ), which can not be reached in the regular boat service.