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The West Cork island that is free from scurvy knaves

It may evoke the world of Long John Silver and Captain Bluebeard but it is safe to say no pirates ever lived there.

The West Cork island that is free from scurvy knaves — Scurvygrass Island, Dunmanus Bay with Furze Island, left, and Carbery Island, right. Picture: Dan MacCarthy

Mon, 08 Mar, 2021 - 00:05

Dan McCarthy

Not an island from a Joseph Conrad or a Hermann Melville novel with their salty flavour of jolly rogers and keelhauling, but the genuine article in West Cork.

This tiny island on the Mizen Peninsula may evoke the world of Long John Silver and Captain Bluebeard but it is safe to say no pirates ever lived there.

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