Inishvickillane, also spelled Inishvickillaun or Inishvickillaune, (Inis Mhic Uileáin in Irish, Mac Uileáin's Island) is one of the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland. Referred to by Blasket islanders as "The Inis",[1] Inishvickillane was intermittently inhabited during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by one or more families. There are extensive ruins of ancient stone buildings on the island, and a house was built in the 1970s by the late former Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who owned the island and used it as a holiday home.
Inishvickillane holds important seabird colonies, being especially notable for Northern Fulmar, European Storm-petrel and Atlantic Puffin. A herd of Red Deer was introduced to the island by Haughey.
[edit] References
- ^ J. & R. Stagles, The Blasket Islands: Next Parish America. O'Brien Press, Dublin, 1980
Coordinates: 52°02′37″N 10°36′30″W / 52.04350°N 10.60829°W / 52.04350; -10.60829
