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Puffin Island. Rough Island. St Mary's Isle. St Michael's Isle. St Patrick's Isle. Saint Tudwal's Islands. Salt Island. The Scares. Sheep Island.
Dublin Bay. Brittas Bay. The Irish Sea[a] is a 46,007 km 2 (17,763 sq mi) body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland [4] in the north by the North Channel.
The Great Island area and population are those of the total ED (7,012 acres (2,838 hectares), 10060 people) less those of Foaty, Haulbowline, Spike, Rocky, and Coney Islands (897 acres (363 hectares), 636 people) ^ 2006 Census Vol.1 Table 6 gives 6541 for Cobh town and 6339 for Cobh rural ED; most were on Great Island but 165 were on ...
The Isle of Man (Manx: Mannin [ˈmanɪnʲ], also Ellan Vannin [ˈɛlʲan ˈvanɪnʲ]) or Mann (/ mæn / man), [11] is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations and is the homeland of the Manx people, a Celtic ethnic group.
The Aran Islands (/ ˈærən / ARR-ən; Irish: Oileáin Árann, pronounced [əˈlʲaːnʲ ˈaːɾˠən̪ˠ]) or The Arans (na hÁrainneacha [n̪ˠə ˈhaːɾˠən̠ʲəxə]) are a group of three islands at the mouth of Galway Bay, off the west coast of Ireland, with a total area around 46 km 2 (18 sq mi).
Holy Island (Welsh: Ynys Gybi, 'the island of (Saint) Cybi ') is an island on the western side of the larger Isle of Anglesey, Wales, from which it is separated by the Cymyran Strait. It is called "Holy" because of the high concentration of standing stones, burial chambers and other religious sites on the small island.
The Irish Sea and the Firth of Clyde's southerly boundary, as defined by the Scottish Government, is between the southern tip of the Kintyre Peninsula and Corsewall Point on the Rhins of Galloway. [9] The Firth joins the strait between Scotland and Northern Ireland, called the North Channel, at the north of the Irish Sea
The channel begins north of the Isle of Man and is customarily considered part of the Irish Sea, the channel runs north-west into the Atlantic Ocean. [3] Within the channel is the Beaufort's Dyke, at 312 metres (1,024 ft) it is the deepest part. [4]