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Feature count in area: 7, all in Waterford,
OSI/LPS Maps: 76, 82, EW-C
Highest Place: St. John's Island 35m
Starting Places (1) in area Waterford Islands:
Carrickavrantry Lake West
Summits & other features in area Waterford Islands:
Burke's Island 5m, Gull Island North 5m, Gull Island South 15m, Helvick Island 15m, Sheep Island (2) 35m, St. John's Island 35m, Templebrick 10m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Highest Place: St. John's Island 35m
Starting Places (1) in area Waterford Islands:
Carrickavrantry Lake WestSummits & other features in area Waterford Islands:
Burke's Island 5m, Gull Island North 5m, Gull Island South 15m, Helvick Island 15m, Sheep Island (2) 35m, St. John's Island 35m, Templebrick 10m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Reachable "On Foot " Y
Grid Reference X53600 97800, Mapsheet(s): 76
Place visited by: 2 members, recently by: DavidWalsh, bryanjbarry , Island visited by 5 members.
I visited this place: NO
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Notes on name: Not reachable at HW
Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: ShpIsl, 10 char: ShpIslnd
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/island/2384/
Gallery for Sheep Island (2) (Oileán an gCaorach (2)) and surrounds
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The Isles of Icane
by Pepe
16 Mar 2025
Three of the four Isles of Icane can be seen in this photo (Carrickanine is hidden on the far side). The stack-like island in the middle of the group is known as Eagle Rock. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/island/2384/comment/23515/
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Island Names
by Pepe
16 Mar 2025
Going by Gerald Geoffrey Spencer's excellent "30 Year Study of the East Waterford Coast", the outermost of the two Sheep Islands is known as Vales Island. The large boot-shaped isle alongside Sheep Island is known as Carrickanine. This island group is known generally under the romantic sounding title Isles of Icane - probably related to the various townlands of Islandikane (OS spelling) on the nearby mainland. This area is at the heart of the Copper Coast, and full of fascinating sea arches, caves and secret coves uncrowded, unknown and largely unexplored. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/island/2384/comment/23346/
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My Left Foot
by Pepe
18 Mar 2025
A view of the human foot-shaped island of Carrickanine with its remarkable resemblance to one of Pepe's feet after a day out trekking barefoot in the mud. The photo was taken from the shady shore of Sheep Island. In the distance, to the left of Carrickanine, you can see Garrarus beach.
Access on foot to Sheep is possible for a good window of a couple of hours either side of low. Park at Kilfarrassy and walk to the eastern end of the beach. A careful walk over a sort of boulder-field of rocks for about a 100 metres leads to another beach (often a nudist beach in good weather). This gives easy access to Sheep.
Now the bad news: to climb this southern side of Sheep you would need ropes and grappling hooks and carry out a reenactment of that cliff scene from the Guns of Naverone.
Sheep is so sheer that even a stalwart like Pepe baulked at the idea and promptly hit the nearest pub for the remainder of the day - consoling himself with the thought that the day was not wasted - shur isn't it a grand shoreline walk over and back from Kilfarrassy. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/island/2384/comment/24407/
Access on foot to Sheep is possible for a good window of a couple of hours either side of low. Park at Kilfarrassy and walk to the eastern end of the beach. A careful walk over a sort of boulder-field of rocks for about a 100 metres leads to another beach (often a nudist beach in good weather). This gives easy access to Sheep.
Now the bad news: to climb this southern side of Sheep you would need ropes and grappling hooks and carry out a reenactment of that cliff scene from the Guns of Naverone.
Sheep is so sheer that even a stalwart like Pepe baulked at the idea and promptly hit the nearest pub for the remainder of the day - consoling himself with the thought that the day was not wasted - shur isn't it a grand shoreline walk over and back from Kilfarrassy. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/island/2384/comment/24407/
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