Great Island (Ireland)
| Great Island An toileán Mór |
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| Waters | Mouth of the River Lee into the Celtic Sea | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 51 ′ N , 8 ° 18 ′ W | |
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| length | 5.1 km | |
| width | 8.7 km | |
| surface | 25.037 km² | |
| Residents | 13,733 (2011) | |
| main place | Cobh | |
Great Island ( Irish Oileán Mór an Bharraigh or An tOileán Mór ) is an island with 13,733 inhabitants in the south of Ireland . It is located in County Cork near Cork City at the mouth of the River Lee in the Atlantic .
geography
The main town of Cobh with 12,347 inhabitants, is located on the southern bank of the "big island" (The Great Iceland) at one of the world's largest natural harbors, the Cork Harbor . Great Island is connected to the mainland by ferries ( Passage West ) and a bridge to Fota Island.
history
The English name of the island has its origins in "Great island of the Barrys", named after a Norman-Welsh family who settled here. During the Napoleonic Wars, the island became a naval base. From here around 2.5 million of the total of six million emigrants left their Irish homeland between 1848 and 1950.
The main town Cobh was first mentioned in 1750 under the name Cove ("the Cove of Cork"), in 1849 it was renamed Queenstown on the occasion of Queen Victoria's visit . In 1922, with the independence of Ireland, the English name Cove was finally changed to the Irish spelling Cobh .
economy
Cobh is now a getaway for visitors from Cork City and for the passengers of many cruise ships that moor in port. Despite some prosperous new development areas in the hinterland, the island has remained largely unaffected by the enormous economic development and industrial settlements in the region from the 1990s and has retained its typically Irish character.
Worth seeing
Cuskinny Beach
St. Colman's Cathedral
In Cobh Harbor
Street corner in the city
Web links
- Cobh and Harbor Chamber (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Table VII: Area, Houses, Out-offices and Farm-steadings, and Population, together with the Valuation of each Poor Law Union (or Superintendent Registrar's District), Dispensary (or Registrar's District), District Electoral Division, Townland etc., in 1911. In: Census of Ireland, 1911. Area, Houses, and Population; Also the Ages, civil or conjugal condition, Occupations, Birthplaces, Religions and Education of the people. Province of Munster. County and City of Cork. Thom, Dublin 1912, p. 11 ff.
- ↑ Note: The 1911 census report gives an area of 7135 acres, 0 roods and 15 (square) perches for the city of Queenstown (today Cobh), minus the Foaty peninsula (776a. 1r. 24p.), The islands of Spike (104a . 0r. 32p.), Haulbowline (at that time 64 acres), Rocky (3a. 0r. 5p.) And another island now merged with Haulbowline (0a. 2r. 25p.) Resulted in an area of 6186 acres, 3 roods and 9 perches or 25,037 km² for Great Island. The area size of 53 km² mentioned in the Gazetteer of Ireland is clearly wrong.
- ↑ Table No. 11 Population of inhabited Islands off the coast, 2006 and 2011. In: Central Statistics Office (Ed.): Population Classified by area. Dublin 2012, pp. 132-133
- ↑ citypopulation.de
- ↑ Cobh Heritage Center ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
