Great Blasket Island

The Great Blasket is the principal island of the , , . It was home to a small fishing community of Irish speakers until the island was evacuated in 1953 when living there became unsustainable.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Castle Point.

Archaeological site
Rinn an Chaisleáin or is a National Monument on Great Blasket Island, Ireland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garraun Point and Dunmore Head.

Locality
The Great Blasket is the principal island of the , , . It was home to a small fishing community of Irish speakers until the island was evacuated in 1953 when living there became unsustainable.

Locality
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is a promontory in the westernmost part of the , located in the barony of Corca Dhuibhne in southwest , .

Village
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Dún Chaoin, unofficially anglicised as , is a Gaeltacht village in the west of in the south-west of Ireland. lies at the most westerly tip of the , overlooking the . is situated 8 km northeast of Great Blasket Island.

Great Blasket Island

Latitude
52.09158° or 52° 5′ 30″ north
Longitude
-10.54381° or 10° 32′ 38″ west
Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)
Open location code
9C4F3FR4+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 431466936
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2963874
Wiki­data ID
Q2270329
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Satellite Map

Discover Great Blasket Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Great Blasket Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بلاسكيت الكبرى”
  • Armenian: “Մեծ Բլասկետ”
  • Basque: “An Blascaod Mór”
  • Breton: “An Blascaod Mór”
  • Breton: “Great Blasket”
  • Catalan: “An Blascaod Mór”
  • Cebuano: “Great Blasket Island”
  • Dutch: “Great Blasket Island”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيرة بلاسكيت الكبرى”
  • French: “An Blascaod Mór”
  • French: “Great Blasket Island”
  • Galician: “An Blascaod Mór”
  • Galician: “Illa de Gran Blasket”
  • German: “Große Blasket Insel”
  • Irish: “An Blascaod Mór”
  • Italian: “Grande Blasket”
  • Italian: “Great Blasket”
  • Japanese: “グレートブラスケット島”
  • Lithuanian: “Didysis Blasketas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Great Blasket Island”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “An Blascaod Mór”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Great Blasket Island”
  • Norwegian: “Great Blasket Island”
  • Portuguese: “Grande Ilha Blasket”
  • Russian: “Большой Бласкет”
  • Russian: “Грейт-Бласкет”
  • Russian: “остров Грейт-Бласкет”
  • Swedish: “An Blascaod Mór”
  • Swedish: “Great Blasket Island”
  • Welsh: “An Blascaod Mór”

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