Inishglora
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 12 '36 " N , 10 ° 7' 49" W | |
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| length | 1.31 km | |
| width | 560 m | |
| surface | 44 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 22 m | |
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Inishglora ( Irish Inis Gluaire ) is an uninhabited island off the coast of the Mullet Peninsula in County Mayo in Ireland . There are several church ruins on the island. Inishglora is the most famous among the Barony Erris islands as it is considered the most sacred.
Inishglora is geologically similar to the neighboring Inishkea Islands and is made up of gneiss and slate . The island is covered with machair and white sand. Inishglora and the Inishkeas are geologically very different from Duvillaun Island , which is located in the south.
history
There are archaeological relics on the island.
- The ruins of "Saint Brendan's Church" are the remains of a building in the style of the Gallarus Oratory in County Kerry .
- The ruins of two other churches are called “Teampall na bhFear” ( German “Men's Church” ) and “Teampall na mBan” ( German “Frauenkirche” ). Both are only a few centuries younger than Saint Brendan's Church. The Frauenkirche may have been an early nunnery.
- Inishglora also has several early cross slabs ( German "Kreuzplatten" ) and stone pillars.
- Remains of three beehive huts , the largest is called "Saint Brendan's cell" ( German "Saint Brendan's cell" ).
There is a lot of superstition in the context of the relics on Inishglora. About the fountain "Saint Brendan's Well" is said when a woman drinks his water, it would turn to blood and full of worms.
Legend
The legend Oidheadh Chlainne Lir ( German "The story of the children of Lirs" ) says that the children of Lirs, who had been transformed into swans, flew to Inishglora at the end of their 900-year exile. On the island, they were baptized and changed into their former human form by Saint Brendan , but because they were 900 years old, they instantly crumbled into dust which was buried on the island.
Geraldus Cambrensis (1146–1223) wrote in 1186 in the "Topographia Hibernica" about Inishglora: There is an island where human corpses are neither buried nor decayed. The Book of Ballymote also states that Inishglora's bodies do not perish. A poem by Roderic O'Flaherty (Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (1629-1718)) in his book Ogygia ( German "Antiquities" ) from 1685 makes the same statement. There are no “undamaged” bodies on Inishglora, but many dumped bones have been found on the island.