Colt Island
Colt Island is the closest and smallest of three low-lying, uninhabited islands off the headland of Skerries, County Dublin in Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: jai, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skerries railway station and Red Island Martello Tower.
Skerries railway station
Railway station
Photo: jai, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Skerries railway station serves Skerries in County Dublin, Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Loughshinny and Balrothery.
Loughshinny
Village
Photo: Colm O hAonghusa, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loughshinny is a small coastal village in northern County Dublin, Ireland, between Skerries and Rush. Loughshinny's more famous landmarks are the Martello Tower on the nearby headland of Drumanagh and some unusual rock formations visible on some of the many coastal walks in the area. Loughshinny is situated 4½ km south of Colt Island.
Balrothery
Village
Photo: Offdaw, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balrothery is a village and civil parish located in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland. The town has historically been called Baile Ruairí in Irish. The 2022 census population for Balrothery was 2,282. Balrothery is situated 7 km west of Colt Island.
Rush
Town
Balbriggan is a seaside town at the north end of County Dublin, 32 km north of Dublin city centre. It was a small fishing village until 1780 then grew rapidly as a textile town, processing cotton and linen. Rush is situated 7 km south of Colt Island.
Colt Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: Uninhabited island off Skerries, near Dublin, Ireland
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.58487° or 53° 35′ 6″ northLongitude
-6.08873° or 6° 5′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C5MHWM6+WGOpenStreetMap ID
way 23610837OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Colt Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Colt Island”
- Chinese: “柯尔特岛”
- Chinese: “柯爾特島”
- Dutch: “Colt Island”
- Irish: “Inis Coilt”
- Swedish: “Colt Island”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Colt Island”. Photo: jai, CC BY-SA 2.0.