Is that the island where a boatload of constabulary were drowned while travelling out from the mainland to evict tenants on the island? Not sure if that was Mayo or Donegal, I must check it again.
Free houses?
Northernmost? Is that not Tory?
never knew ireland had an island that far out!
Here’s an idea. Could we build temporary housing and shops and things for 100-1000 refugees?
Anyone want some interesting reading, look up Inishkea Island history off the coast of North Mayo.
I’ve been out a few times, The lighthouse is maintained so its possible to bring a boat in. The water between the island and the mainland is a nursery of sorts for basking sharks.
Also the location of the oldest rocks in Ireland
Oh, spot for a new prison. No one there to object to it.
Or so they thought …. Que predator music
“Potato lazy beds”?
*googles*
“Lazy bed (Irish: ainneor or iompú, is a traditional method of arable cultivation. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks that are bigger, up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in width, with narrow drainage channels between them. It was used in southern parts of Britain from the post-Roman period until the post-medieval period, and across much of Ireland and Scotland until the 19th century.
Although it is largely extinct, it is still to be found in parts of the Hebrides and the west of Ireland. In these places, the method used is normally to lift up sods of peat and apply desalinated seaweed fertiliser to improve the ground. Potatoes were often grown in this way in these regions, until the potato blight Phytophthora infestans caused potato famine in the Highlands and Ireland.”
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Is that the island where a boatload of constabulary were drowned while travelling out from the mainland to evict tenants on the island? Not sure if that was Mayo or Donegal, I must check it again.
Free houses?
Northernmost? Is that not Tory?
never knew ireland had an island that far out!
Here’s an idea. Could we build temporary housing and shops and things for 100-1000 refugees?
Anyone want some interesting reading, look up Inishkea Island history off the coast of North Mayo.
I’ve been out a few times, The lighthouse is maintained so its possible to bring a boat in. The water between the island and the mainland is a nursery of sorts for basking sharks.
Also the location of the oldest rocks in Ireland
Oh, spot for a new prison. No one there to object to it.
Or so they thought …. Que predator music
“Potato lazy beds”?
*googles*
“Lazy bed (Irish: ainneor or iompú, is a traditional method of arable cultivation. Rather like cord rig cultivation, parallel banks of ridge and furrow are dug by spade although lazy beds have banks that are bigger, up to 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) in width, with narrow drainage channels between them. It was used in southern parts of Britain from the post-Roman period until the post-medieval period, and across much of Ireland and Scotland until the 19th century.
Although it is largely extinct, it is still to be found in parts of the Hebrides and the west of Ireland. In these places, the method used is normally to lift up sods of peat and apply desalinated seaweed fertiliser to improve the ground. Potatoes were often grown in this way in these regions, until the potato blight Phytophthora infestans caused potato famine in the Highlands and Ireland.”