Friday, November 17, 2023

Their last days on the Blaskets and Maharee islands

On this day, November 17, 1953 the last people living on the Blasket Islands left their homes for the mainland. And by coincidence, on the same day the remaining family on the Maharee Islands moved the short distance on to the mainland to the parish of Castlegregory in West Kerry.

On that boat was a young boy by the name of Bob Goodwin(in picture). Today he lives in the Maharees and in the summer months regularly travels to his old home on the island.

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