Free from Covid-19: Life springs eternal on Heir

The numbers living on Heir, or Inis Ui Drisceoil, are far exceeded by Cape Clear and Sherkin Island but its number surpasses that of neighbouring Long Island where just 10 people live.

Heir Island’s 24 residents are free of coronavirus and like all the other islands consider themselves fortunate to be cut off from the mainland at this time.

If the virus is not there now then it’s not getting there: Simple as that. Only four of Carbery’s Hundred Isles can claim to be populated, with Heir Island off Cunnamore Head one of them.