Inishturk island: Home to 60 people, several B&Bs and a lively summer seisiún

Just south of Clew Bay and sandwiched between Clare Island and Inishbofin is the roughly equally-sized island of Inishturk.

It is one of two Inishturks in Ireland — the other is at Cleggan in west Galway.

In keeping with our many islands that bespeak the animal-nature of an island — rabbit island, horse island, gull, island, deer island — the island of the hog reveals its faunal history though hogs were once much more prevalent than they are now.