Inishnee
Inishnee () is a small island off the coast of Ireland, in Roundstone Bay near the village of Roundstone in Connemara in County Galway. It is equipped with a lighthouse. , it had a population of 43. Demographics The table below shows data on Inishnee's population taken from ''Discover the Islands of Ireland'' (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the Census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ... of Ireland. References External links Islands - Change in Population 1841 - 2006Location of Inishnee lighthouse Islands of County Galway Gaeltacht places in County Galway {{Galway-geo-stub ...
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Roundstone, County Galway
Roundstone () is a village on the west coast of Ireland, in the Connemara region of County Galway. Lying opposite the island of Inishnee on Roundstone Bay, by road it is northwest of Galway and southeast of Clifden. Known as a haven for people in the creative arts, it hosts an annual regatta in July. Etymology The anglicised name is usually considered an error on the part of the British colonial Ordnance Survey, which translated the village name; while ''Cloch'' certainly means "stone" or "rock", ''Rón'' means "seal", not "round". Still, the names Cloch na Rón and Roundstone may be totally independent. The bay is referred to as Round-stone Haven as early as 1684 (Roderick O'Flaherty), and the rock after which it is named stands like a marker at the entrance and is strikingly round. History The area to the north of Roundstone was occupied by the O'Flaherty family, who built a Dominican Priory about to the north of what is now Roundstone in the 15th century. Roundstone was e ...
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