20 largest islands in Ireland listed and shown to scale. Each showing area in sq/km along with population

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  1. Looks like Great Blasket Island needs a King.

    Vote for me.

    I’ll do fuck all but I will stand naked on the cliff side with a spear and shake it angrily any tourist….I will also shake the spear at them.

  2. List will need updating in 50 years when most of our coastal towns/cities are under melty iceberg/glacier slush (technical term).

  3. I was gojng to make a joke about us having to talk avoid Great island. Then I seen its population. It must be pretty great.

  4. Have we any islands with low population numbers that would be suitable as command control/maintenance bases for large scale offshore windfarm development? I ask as some countries have plans for making artificial islands for this purpose, apparently it’s highly advantageous to have land bases close to the far offshore (from the mainland) windfarms for ease of construction & operation.

  5. How have I existed for 33 years and not known there were so many islands here? Has anyone mentioned the absence of the famous Craggy Island?

  6. Sherkin Island looks like Ireland with a hole in it. When I was a kid some person visited our class from there and gave us all badges with the island on it.

  7. One time, my (then very young) cousin who grew up in Westport was telling his classmates that he was going to visit us in Seattle, in the US. “I’m going to Seakkle” he said. “Sure, Ruairi, we all go see Achill all the time, it’s right over there” they said.

  8. Missing loads. Lambay, dalkey Island and Irelands eye for instance.

    Lambay is credited as the site of the beginning of the viking conquest in Ireland, and they have wallabies which is gas

  9. I’m from Cobh and having been on Valentia I’m surprised to learn it’s bigger. It did *not* seem that way at all.

  10. With all these “island” islands w/ bridges etc, what is the most remote island? The furthest irish land from the mainland.

  11. Would have been interesting to note on it which have a bridge to them and what County each one is in

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