Islands of Ireland: Living on the Kedge

Kedge Island is unpopulated but is home to a myriad of seabirds.

An inhospitable place though so close to shore, Kedge Island is a small, rugged island with a grassy top above its cliffs, within sight of Baltimore’s well-known Beacon. It is better known as the Kedges named for a series of jagged pinnacles that stretch to the cliffs under Spain Tower. Just up the coast at Toe Head lies a companion crag known as the Stags. Both have featured

in seafaring tragedies over the years with several ships run aground and lost.