Mutton Island

Mutton Island, historically 'Inishkeragh', is a small island about 1km off the coast of Galway City, Ireland. It is joined to the mainland by a manmade causeway.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Errisbeg.

Errisbeg

Peak

Photo: Patrice78500, Public domain.

Errisbeg Mountain or Errisbeg is a hill in Roundstone, County Galway, in the West of Ireland, with a height of 300 m. The mountain is located within the Gaeltacht of Conamara Theas, alongside nearby Inishnee. Errisbeg is situated 3½ km north of Mutton Island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roundstone and Letterard.

Roundstone

Town

Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Roundstone is a village on the west coast of Ireland, in the Connemara region of County Galway. Lying opposite the island of Inishnee on Roundstone Bay, by road it is 76 kilometres northwest of Galway and 18 kilometres southeast of Clifden. Roundstone is situated 5 km northeast of Mutton Island.

Letterard

Hamlet

Photo: Fractal Angel, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Letterard is a townland located in the parish of Moyrus or Carna, Connemara on the West Coast of the Republic of Ireland. It is located in County Galway. Letterard is situated 8 km east of Mutton Island.

Ballyconneely

Village

Photo: Hugh Chevallier, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ballyconneely is a village and small ribbon development in west Connemara, County Galway Ireland.… Ballyconneely is situated 10 km northwest of Mutton Island.

Mutton Island

Type: Islet
Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.36724° or 53° 22′ 2″ north

Longitude

-9.97294° or 9° 58′ 23″ west

Open location code

9C5G928G+VR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 4562700

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

3315467

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Satellite Map

Discover Mutton Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From German to Irish—“Mutton Island” goes by many names.

German: “Mutton Island”
Irish: “Oileán Moilt”

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