Islands of Ireland: The rough and the smooth

Upwards of 20 islands are scattered about here like children’s toys in this lake

Rough Island, Lough Currane, Co Kerry. Picture: Dan MacCarthy

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know. 

Beautiful words themselves from John Keats, if a bit vapid. Of course, there have been many other ways to describe beauty, such as it being in the eye of the beholder. It is hard to fathom that here could be a place as beautiful anywhere as Lough Currane, Co Kerry.