The Islands of Ireland: Footprints in the sand on Dinish

Dinish, Lettermullan, Co Galway, where JM Synge and Jack B Yeats were sent on assignment by the then Manchester Guardian. They were told that all the children living there would be going to America one day. Picture: Dan MacCarthy

This 95-acre island in Co Galway is separated by a very narrow channel from the causewayed island of Furnace which is itself connected to the causewayed island of Lettermullan.