Islands of Ireland: Inchagoill in County Galway offers fascinating early-Christian monuments

There's a stone inscribed for St Patrick's nephew, a carved arch of 10 heads, and a tiny church just 10 metres long

Boats tied up at the jetty; and the 12th century Romanesque, Templenaneeve, or Church of the Saints, on Inchagoill, County Galway. Pictures: Dan MacCarthy

As you scoot around the lake on a tour, you might think that if you have seen one of Lough Corrib’s forested islands, you have seen them all. Most of its dozens of islands are thickly wooded but some are not. 

They are not 365 as some would have you believe. Last year, we visited Inishshanboe with its architect-designed house which was visited by Oscar Wilde’s father, William, in the 1850s.