Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lambay Island

Lambay Island (1½ mile by 1 mile), in Irish Sea, Portraine par., co. Dublin, 3 miles SE. of Rush, 617 ac., pop. 61. The surface is hilly, the cliffs on the E. side rising to an alt. of 418 ft.; the rocks are chiefly of trap and porphyry. The island is the property of Lord Talbot de Malahide.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "island"   (ADL Feature Type: "islands")
Administrative units: Dublin IrlC
Place: Lambay Island

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