The Great Blasket is the principal island of the Blaskets, County Kerry, Ireland. It was home to a small fishing community of Irish speakers until the island was abandoned in 1954 when living there became unsustainable.
Great Blasket Island
Grey seal colony on Great Blasket
Old village on Great Blasket
An abandoned home on the island
The Blasket Islands are an uninhabited group of islands off the west coast of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The last island to hold a significant population, Great Blasket Island, was abandoned in 1954 due to population decline and is best known for a number of Irish language writers who vividly described their way of life and who kept alive old Irish folk tales of the land.
Blasket Islands as seen from the lower slopes of Mount Eagle
Replica of a traditional Blasket cottage in Dunquin
Great Blasket
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