Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blasket, Blasqnet, or Ferriter Islands

Blasket, Blasquet, or Ferriter Islands, a cluster of rocky islets, W. co. Kerry, 12 miles W. of Dingle; they abound with sea-fowl. Blasket, Great, the largest, has an area of 1020 ac., pop. 136.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a cluster of rocky islets"   (ADL Feature Type: "archipelagos")
Administrative units: Kerry County
Place names: BLASKET     |     BLASKET BLASQNET OR FERRITER ISLANDS     |     BLASQNET     |     FERRITER ISLANDS
Place: Blasquet Islands

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