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Waterford Islands Area
Place count in area: 7, OSI/LPS Maps: 76, 82, EW-C 
Highest place:
St. John's Island, 35m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Sheep Island (2) Island Oileán an gCaorach (2) A name in Irish Waterford County in Munster Province, in Irish Islands List

Landing grid ref.: X53600 97900
Reachable "On Foot " Y

Height: 35m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 76 Grid Reference: X53600 97800
Place visited by 2 members. Recently by: DavidWalsh, bryanjbarry
Island visited by 5 members.
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Longitude: -7.218041, Latitude: 52.129983 , Easting: 253600, Northing: 97800
ITM: 653537 597856,   GPS IDs, 6 char: ShpIsl, 10 char: ShpIslnd


Not reachable at HW  

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Sheep Island (<i>Oileán an gCaorach</i>) in area Waterford Islands, Ireland
Picture: Isles of Icane from Kilfarassy with Islandikane headland on the left
 
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: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/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: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/2384/comment/23346/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Sheep Island (<i>Oileán an gCaorach</i>) in area Waterford Islands, Ireland
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: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/2384/comment/24407/
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