Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Inisheer

Inisheer, island (forming par.), one of the Aran group, SW. co. Galway, 17 miles SW. of Spiddal, 1400 ac., pop. 497; P.O., called Inishere; Inisheer Lighthouse, on south point of island, is 112 ft. high, with fixed light (Inisheer island) 110 ft. above high water and seen 15 miles.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "island"   (ADL Feature Type: "islands")
Administrative units: Galway IrlC
Place names: INISHEER     |     INISHERE
Place: Inisheer

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