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Article: Your own island hideaway
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 17, 2009
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It may be the ultimate get-away-from-it-all destination, but it
doesn't come cheap. FIONA GARTLAND lands in the lap of luxury on
Inishturkbeg in Clew Bay, off Co Mayo
THE TRAIN FROM Dublin Heuston to Westport takes three hours and
40 minutes on a good day, long enough to fly to Madeira or Sicily.
But I was en route to a different island, one where the weather is
not quite so predictable and where the views are impossible to
match.
The only island I'd heard much about previously in Clew Bay, off
the coast of Mayo, was Clare Island, home of pirate queen Grace
O'Malley. Google Earth's version of Clew Bay shows myriad drumlins
breaking the surface of the Atlantic, weather-beaten and mostly ...