Turbot (Inis Toirbirt or Tairbeart in Irish) is a small island and a townland of County Galway, in Ireland, also referred as Inishturbot and Talbot Island.

Geography

Turbot Island lies off the Irish coast not faraway from Clifden and Cleggan. It is located South of Inishturk and West of Aird Mhór Peninsula. The easiest place to land on Turbot is the North side of the island, where most of the old houses are gathered. A road cuts Turbot from East to West.

History

A small community used to live on Turbot, but the island was evacuated in 1978. Later some of the old buildings were transformed into holiday homes.

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 146 —     1851 169 +15.8% 1861 191 +13.0% 1871 160 −16.2% 1881 158 −1.2% 1891 115 −27.2% 1901 129 +12.2% 1911 105 −18.6% 1926 108 +2.9%	Year Pop. ±% 1936 101 −6.5% 1946 100 −1.0% 1951 89 −11.0% 1956 97 +9.0% 1961 80 −17.5% 1966 73 −8.8% 1971 65 −11.0% 1979 7 −89.2% 1981 1 −85.7%	Year Pop. ±% 1986 0 −100.0% 1991 0 0.00% 1996 0 0.00% 2002 0 0.00% 2006 0 0.00% 2011 0 0.00% 2016 1 —     2022 2 +100.0%
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