Feature count in area: 6, all in Wexford,
OSI/LPS Maps: 77
Highest Place: Great Saltee Island 58m
Starting Places in area Wexford Islands:
None for this area
Summits & other features in area Wexford Islands: Great Saltee Island 58m, Horseshoe Island 5m, Keeragh Islands 9m, Little Saltee Island 37m, Rosslare Fort Island 5m, Tuskar Rock 5m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not
islands as such.
Great Saltee Island, 58mIsland An Sailte Mór A name in Irish,
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, Wexford County in Leinster province, in Irish Islands Lists Grid Reference X94565 96365,
OS 1:50k mapsheet 77 Place visited by: 28members, recently by: Fergalh, eugeneryan959, eamonoc, jlk, Niamhq, Pepe, Aglaisio, ei7kh, Roen, wicklore, joeryan1, Onzy, Colin Murphy, Bernieor, madfrankie, Island visited by 32 members.
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Gallery for Great Saltee Island (An Sailte Mór) and surrounds
Summary
for Great Saltee Island (An Sailte Mór):
Birds' Eye View
Summary created by Colin Murphy
2017-07-12 09:40:15
Picture: Great Saltee Puffin
You can get a boat to Great Saltee Island from Kilmore Quay. Booking is advisable. The cost is €25 per person. The boat drops you off at set times and collects you about four hours later. The trip across takes 20 minutes. The actual landing is done via a rubber dinghy (there is no pier) and can be a wet landing when tide is high. The island is privately owned, but the owner allows visitors. There are no roads or facilities and just one house, which you must keep clear of, including the immediate surrounding land. Other than that you may wander the entire island freely. There are a few tracks here and there. Most of the birds are to be found on the southern and western sides of the island, which is quite beautiful, much of it lined with cliffs. There is a vast colony of gannets near the south-western tip, but you can also see puffins, shags, guillemots, great black-backed gulls and many more species. The high point of the island is about 100m directly north of the gannet colony.
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