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Fota landmass is an Island

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  • 11-09-2017 2:12pm
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    CerebralCortex
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    Why is the Fota Island considered an island? It's clearly a peninsula.


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    GetWithIt
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    It's just a name


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    Frostybrew
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    As far as I know it was originally an island until land reclamation attached it to the mainland, probably in the 17th and 18th centuries. The old name remains. Little Island experienced a similar fate.


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    tabbey
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    CerebralCortex wrote: »
    Why is the Fota Island considered an island? It's clearly a peninsula.

    It is not clear at all !

    Looking at the original Ordnance Survey 6" map, it looks to me as though the waterway between Gyleen Crogha bridge and Slatty bridge was culverted.

    The boundary between Clonmel and Barryscourt townlands almost certainly followed this natural feature.


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    Fathom
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    zzzFotaIsland_large.jpg


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