Remains of the Irish writer painted by Manet and Degas are on Mayo's Castle Island

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it — George A Moore

Castle Island, Lough Carra, County Mayo, where the ashes of writer George Moore (seen here in an Édouard Manet drawing) are interred

In the centre of the sparkling County Mayo Lough Carra lies a wooded island. The other islands scattered around are also heavily wooded but this one is different in a big way. It holds the gravestone of an eminent writer and cultural powerhouse. And not many of our islands can lay such a claim. 

When I read in Ireland, Literature and the Coast by Northern Ireland writer, Nicholas Allen, that this island is the final resting place of George Moore, I just had to visit.