Inishturk (Inis Toirc in Irish, meaning Wild Boar Island) is a small island and a townland of County Galway, in Ireland. The island is also referred as Inishturk South (Irish: Inis Toirc Theas) in order to tell it apart from the Inishturk island located in County Mayo.

Geography

Inisturk lies off the Irish coast not faraway from Clifden and Cleggan. It is located between Turbot (or Inishturbot, South) and Omey Island (North). On the hill topping the island stands a radio-TV mast. The easiest place to land on Inishturk is the SE part of the island.

History

A small community used to live on the island up to the mid-20th century, but it later become uninhabited. At the end of the 20th century some old buildings were transformed into holiday houses.

Demographics

The table below shows data on Inisturk's population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the Census of Ireland.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1841 84 —     1851 97 +15.5% 1861 128 +32.0% 1871 92 −28.1% 1881 87 −5.4% 1891 84 −3.4% 1901 95 +13.1% 1911 96 +1.1% 1926 90 −6.2%	Year Pop. ±% 1936 92 +2.2% 1946 80 −13.0% 1951 86 +7.5% 1956 76 −11.6% 1961 53 −30.3% 1966 47 −11.3% 1971 35 −25.5% 1979 0 −100.0% 1981 7 —	Year Pop. ±% 1986 1 −85.7% 1991 0 −100.0% 1996 0 0.00% 2002 0 0.00% 2006 1 —     2011 1 +0.0% 2016 0 −100.0% 2022 0 0.00%
Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

See also

• List of islands of Ireland