Two miles beyond Dunmore Head , the Westernmost tip of the peninsula , monstrous humps of rock with dizzying cliff faces rise from the sea among a multitude of lesser rocks and reefs. These are the Blasket Islands , scene of many shipwrecks over the...
The Dingle Peninsula is a place of intense , shifting beauty. Spectacular mountains , long sandy beaches and the staggering splinter-slatted mass of rocks that defines the extraordinary coast at Slea Head all conspire to ensure that , remote though it is , the Dingle...
The Blasket Islands are a group of islands off the Dingle Peninsula. Uninhabited since 1953 , the Blaskets were a mecca for linguists and anthropologists during the early years of the Gaelic , or Irish Language Revival (1905-1930). A large corpus of Gaelic autobiographies emerged from the...
The Blasket Islands, located in County Kerry, are red sandstone rocks sprawled in the Atlantic, two miles beyond the westernmost tip of the peninsula. The smaller islands are Beginish, Youngs Island and Illaunboy. The big islands are Inishmore, Inish na Bro, Inishvickillane, Inishtooskert, and the Great...