Rock Island
Rock Island is a promontory in West Cork, Ireland, situated about 2 kilometres south of the village of Goleen, at the entrance to the inlet of Crookhaven.Photo: Dr Brian Lynch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crookhaven Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crookhaven and Goleen.
Crookhaven
Village
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Crookhaven is a village in County Cork, Ireland, on the most southwestern tip of the island of Ireland. With an out-of-season population of about sixty, it swells in the summer season to about four hundred, when the occupants of the seasonal holiday homes arrive.
Goleen
Village
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Goleen is a small rural village in County Cork on the south-western tip of Ireland. Farming, tourism and construction work are among the main occupations of the local people.
Three Castle Head
Locality
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Three Castle Head is a locality, which is situated 9 km west of Rock Island.
Rock Island
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: promontory between Goleen and Crookhaven, County Cork, Ireland
- Categories: promontory and landform
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Rock Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Rock Island”
- Irish: “Oileán na Carraige”
- Swedish: “Rock Island”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Alderman’s Rocks and Crook Haven.
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