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	The Great Blasket Islands off the Dingle Peninsula Coastline
		The Great Blasket Island, separated from the mainland by the Blasket Sound, is by far the largest of the islands and rises to 292 m above sea level.
		Inishtooskert, Inishnabro, Inishvickillane and Tearaght Island are located to the West and South West of the Great Blasket, and, with the main island, rise steeply from the sea.
		In contrast, the remaining island Beginish is a small, low-lying island, its green plateau used as a source of fodder for livestock.
	www.dodingle.com /pages/blasket_island_trips.html (377 words)

	Commissioners for Irish Lights: Pictures For Aficionadoes
		He suggested having only a lantern with blocking rather than a tall tower, and removing rock to the north and south of the peak to open up Inishvickillane and Inishtooskert, the rock being hard sound conglomerate.
		The dwellings would be on the south side of the peak at 263 feet, 90 yards from the light, with a covered approach if necessary.
		The quarry men had cut into the western side at a level of 264 feet for a distance of 50 feet and Inishvickillane and Inishtooskert would soon be opened up.
	cil2.adnet.ie /index.php3?LighthouseID=17 (1703 words)

	Blasket Islands
		Ruined hermitages and forts existing on several of the islands, show that they were occupied in early historic times.
		There are four big islands, Inishmore the Great Blasket, Inishvickillane, Inishtooskert, and Inish na Bro, and three smaller ones: Beginish, Youngs Island and Illaunboy.
		There is also a great sea rock, the Tearaght, 19 hectares long and 602 feet high, and a multitude of lesser rocks and reefs.
	www.proud2beirish.com /Blasket-Islands.htm (144 words)

	Activities & Attractions on the Dingle Peninsula - Flora & Fauna - Bird Watching
		The high islands and cliffs – the Blasket Islands, the Skelligs, Puffin Island – have major pelagic seabird colonies, including the main world population of the European Storm Petrel.
		Inishtooskert in particular has a very significant Auk colony.
		The low lying island of Beganish in the Blasket Islands and the Maharees Islands are unusual in that they are important in having both wintering and breeding species of great interest.
	www.dingle-peninsula.ie /activities3a.html (919 words)

	Seamanship, Adam Nicolson - HarperCollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		From Land's End to Cape Clear, at the southwestern tip of Ireland, past Roaringwater Bay and Cod's Head, on past Inishvickillane and Inishtooskert, up through the Hebrides, to Orkney and...">
		From Land's End to Cape Clear, at the southwestern tip of Ireland, past Roaringwater Bay and Cod's Head, on past Inishvickillane and Inishtooskert, up through the Hebrides, to Orkney and on to the Faeroes, stretches the richest and wildest coastline in Europe, an Atlantic-battered world.
		Wanting to experience the feeling that only the ocean can give you, of being "a single hair on the world's skin," Adam Nicolson set off to sail this coast in the Auk, a 42-foot wooden ketch, heading off on a 1,500-mile voyage through what he hoped would be a sequence of revelatory landscapes.
	www.harpercollins.com /authorintro/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060753420 (288 words)

	1999 DIVER Holiday Supplement - Dingle - Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Only diveable at slack water on a calm day, the incredibly spiky slope and buttresses continue under water into an area normally covered by a heavy tidal race.
		Wild Bank is charted as ascending to 5m, but the shallowest point we could find with an echo sounder and GPS search was 18m.
		At the north end of Inishtooskert, we again descend a steep slope to a boulder-strewn seabed at 35m.
	www.divernet.com /travel/supp199/dingle.htm (1540 words)

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		While I was sitting on the little mound which marks the summit of the island--a mound stripped and riddled by rabbits-- a heavy bank of fog began to work up from the south, behind Valentia, on the other jaw of Dingle Bay.
		We sat down near them, and before long a party of girls and young women came up also and sat down, twenty paces off on the brink of the cliff some of them wearing the fawn-coloured shawls that are so attractive and so much thought of in the south.
		At the foot of the cliff a wonderful silvery light was shining on the sea, which already, before the beginning of autumn, was eager and wintry and cold.
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		Great BLuket Island, separated from the mainland by the Blasket Sound, is by far the largest of the islands (459 ha) and rises to 292 m above sea level.
		Inishtooskert (99 ha, 162 m), Inislinabro (51 ha, 175 m), Inishvickffime (81 ha, 138 m) and Tearaght Island (27 ha, 184 m) are located between approximately 7 km and 12 km from the nuinland and, Eke Great Blasket, rise steeply from the sea.
		In contrast, Beginish is a small, low lying island (1 5 ha, 14 m) and lies within 2 km of the mainland.
	www.kerrycoco.ie /blasket1/1.html (1150 words)

	sleeping giant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As you can see from the picture it has the appearance of huge giant that fell asleep in the sea.What if it really is a giant-and what if, one day, the Sleeping Giant wakes up?
		The "Sleeping Giant" is labeled Inishtooskert on the map.
		If not, why not ask your teacher or look it up in an irish dictionary.
	www.ict.mic.ul.ie /websites/2002/Johanna_Coyne/SleepingGiant.htm (91 words)

	Tour Ireland - The Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Great Blasket, locally known simply as The Island, is by far the largest of the group, and is separated from the mainland by the 3 miles of the Blasket Sound.
		The other islands are Inishtooskert, Inishnabro, Inishvickillane, Tearaght and Beginish which were used mainly by islanders for grazing and fishing.
		Great Blasket was abandoned in 1953 when only 22 inhabitants remained - the government paid the remaining 22 inhabitants to move to the mainland.
	www.tour-ireland-online.com /blasket-islands.html (487 words)

	ireland.com / In Time's Eye / Birds
		A staggering 100,000 pairs nest at Irish colonies, most of which are located on remote and uninhabited west coast islands - those places with minimal disturbance and an absence of cats and rats.
		The Blaskets in Kerry hold the largest part, and the 27,000 plus pairs on Inishtooskert could well be the largest colony in the world.
		However, a day-trip to this incredible island will be very disappointing and you would be lucky if you see more than a handful of birds on the crossing from Dingle/Dunquin.
	www.ireland.com /timeseye/birds/wings.htm (1069 words)

	Birds Ireland > Rare bird news > August photo special (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		(Above) Wilson's Petrel, 2 miles NNW of Inishtooskert, Blasket Islands, Co.Kerry, 6th August 2002.
		At least four were seen in this one area over a period of two hours (Photo: Michael O'Keeffe).
		(Above) Juvenile Great Skua, 2 miles NNW of Inishtooskert, Blasket Islands, Co.Kerry, 6th August 2002.
	www.birdsireland.com /pages/rare_bird_news/2002/august_photos.html (379 words)

	S.I. No. 48/1986: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (CONSERVATION OF WILD BIRDS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1986. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The area comprising the islands situated in the county of Kerry and known as Great Skellig and Little Skellig.
		The area comprising the islands situated in the county of Kerry and known as Inishvickillane, Inishnabro, Inishtooskert, Beginish and Teraght Island.
		The area comprising the lake in the townland of Lady's Island in the county of Wexford and known as Lady's Island Lake.
	www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZSI48Y1986.html (365 words)

	Dáil Debates Official Report - 14-10-98
		I hope to publish such a Bill before the end of this year.
		Beginish, Inishabro, Inishtooskert, Inishvickillane, Tearaght Island, Thunder Rock and Fohish Rocks were designated as a special protection area under the EU birds directive in 1997.
		Callely asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost to the Exchequer of the provision of all services and supports to asylum seekers in 1997; the costs in 1998; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
	www.irlgov.ie /debates-98/14oct98/sect12.htm (4274 words)

	Roger Casement and Murlough Bay
		they finally arrived and anchored off the agreed rendezvous point of Inishtooskert, County Kerry.
		Failing to find any shore contact, Captain Spindler moved slowly into Tralee Bay and then back to Inishtooskert.
		The 'Aud Norge' arriving off Kerry with no radio onboard and was waiting for land signals - the reason no contact was made is sometimes attributed to the fact that three IRB men had drowned when their car crashed off the pier at Ballykissane, apparently on their way to make that contact.
	www.northantrim.com /rogercasement.htm (1119 words)

	County Kerry - Traveler Reviews - The craic is mighty! - TripAdvisor
		When I woke up, she prepared the irish style breakfast in the dining room which had a view of the ocean.
		Actually, it was a great view of the ocean with three Islands,The Great Blasket Island, Inishtooskert (The sleeping Giant) and tearaght.
		We enjoyed chatting for a while every morning.
	www.tripadvisor.com /ShowUserReviews-g186610-r2705180-County_Kerry.html (756 words)

	Islands on the Air - Search Island Reference
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		Name: Blasket Islands (=Great Blasket, Inishtooskert, Inishvickillane, Tearaght)
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	www.rsgbiota.org /members/searchref.php4?getref=EU-007 (141 words)

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