Deserted Cottages on Great Blasket Island, The Blasket Islands, Off Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland

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Deserted Cottages on Great Blasket Island, The Blasket Islands, Off Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. The island was inhabited until 1953, when the Irish government decided that it could no longer guarantee the safety of the remaining population; however, the islanders had been requesting that they be relocated since 1947. It was the death of Seánín Ó Cearnaigh that acted as a catalyst in the island's evacuation. Sean had become ill and as a result of poor weather, no doctor or priest could reach the island. Inclement weather prevented his body being taken to the consecrated graveyard across the Blasket Sound in Dunquin for a number of days. It was this tragic event that led the islanders to contact the Irish government and request that they be evacuated.

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Location: Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, Ireland
Photo credit: © George Munday / Alamy / Afripics
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