Horse Island
Horse Island is an islet in County Galway, Connacht. Horse Island is situated nearby to the islet Shark Island, as well as near Eel Island.Places of Interest Nearby
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 summit has views of both the Roundstone bog and the Atlantic. Errisbeg is situated 2½ km southeast of Horse Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roundstone and Ballyconneely.
Roundstone
Village
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 4½ km southeast of Horse 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 6 km west of Horse Island.
Clifden
Photo: Bert Kaufmann, Public domain.
Clifden is a small town on the northwest coast of County Galway in the west of Ireland. It grew up as a harbour and market town, then after the Famine became a coast resort with its present Victorian architecture.
Horse Island
- Type: Islet
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: County Galway, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.41536° or 53° 24′ 55″ northLongitude
-9.98104° or 9° 58′ 52″ westOpen location code
9C5GC289+4HOpenStreetMap ID
way 188834662OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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