Natural feature
Mutton Island, County Galway
Low tidal island with a decommissioned lighthouse, reached by a causeway across the bay.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mutton Island in Galway starts with a census that will not add up, then reaches back to the war years of the sixteen-fifties, when a castle on this rock stood between a besieged port and the open sea. It follows Cromwell's soldiers, the Irish forces who answered them, and the keepers' families who later lived out here beside the light. Best heard from the causeway, facing the old tower.
This audio guide was created using AI.