Drishane Island is a magnet for summer swimmers — but just get in and get out for the Christmas swim

Trag beach itself is a lovely, sheltered spot and has Blue Flag status

Islands of Ireland: Drishane Island regularly has a blue and white flag planted on it to celebrate Castlehaven GAA team

This is another tiny island for this series, and again more properly an islet. However, the Ordnance Survey is quite happy to give Drishane Island its island status we'll go along with that.

It is situated about 6km as the crow flies south of the West Cork town of Skibbereen and lies a few kilometres east of the famous Lough Ine and a few west of the village of Castletownshend.