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Bear Island (6½ miles by 1½ mile), SW. co. Cork, on N. side of Bantry Bay, 4 miles S. of Castletown Bearhaven, 4368 ac., pop. 1075; P.O.; the island is hilly, bare, and abounding in slate. It was fortified in 1796, after the French landed in the bay.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "island" (ADL Feature Type: "islands") |
| Administrative units: | Cork County |
| Place: | Bere Island |
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